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Mihai Viteazul National College () is a high school located at 62 Pache Protopopescu Boulevard,

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, Romania. One of the most prestigious secondary education institutions in Romania, it was named after the Romanian ruler

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History

The school traces its origins to 1865, when

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was becoming overcrowded and two gymnasium classes were split off, marking the start of a separate institution. In 1867, Prince Carol decreed the establishment of Michael the Great Gymnasium, marking its legal beginning. For some 30 years, the school did not have its own building, moving around from place to place. It ultimately settled in the yard of the

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. The students showed solidarity with the 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt. During the Central Powers’ occupation in World War I, the school was evacuated, its archive destroyed and classes suspended. Following the war, it was decided to construct a permanent building on land acquired by the Education Ministry in 1914. Mihai Surdu
History
at the Mihai Viteazul National College site The cornerstone was laid in 1921 and work on the main building was largely completed by 1928. It was used as a field hospital in World War II. In the early years of the

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, the 1937 auditorium burned down during a spontaneous student protest, which led to four students (including

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) being condemned to harsh prison sentences. The chapel on the upper floor became and remains a gymnastics room, although the high windows retain cross shapes. Eventually, the school was again moved, while the building housed a workers’ school. It returned as School nr. 13, and was again named after

in 1969. It was declared a national college in 1996. In 2011, by which time there were 1,200 students, the building underwent a thorough restoration. The school building is listed as a

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by Romania's Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs.

Alumni and faculty

Alumni

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Official biography
* Virginia Andreescu Haret *

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* Alexandru Claudian * A. de Herz *

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"Meseria de a scrie (la comandă)"
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Faculty

Gheorghe Bogdan-Duică Gheorghe Bogdan-Duică (born Gheorghe Bogdan; –September 21, 1934) was an Imperial Austrian-born Romanian literary critic. The son of a poor merchant family from Brașov, he attended several universities before launching a career as a critic, f ...

George Bogdan-Duică (ed. Dumitru Petrescu), ''Studii și articole'', pp. xlii–xliii. Editura Minerva, Bucharest, 1975 *

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Petre V. Haneș Petre V. Haneș (November 6, 1879–April 17, 1966) was a Romanian literary historian. Born in Călărași, his parents were Vasile Haneș and his wife Maria (''née'' Leca). He attended Matei Basarab High School in Bucharest, followed by th ...

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, "Cronică", in ''Revista Istorică'', Issues 10–12/1938, pp. 374–75 * Octav Șuluțiu *

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Mihai Sorin Rădulescu
"O carte despre Ștefan Zeletin"
in ''

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'', Nr. 39/2002

Notes

References

* Lucian Nastasă, ''"Suveranii" universităților românești. Mecanisme de selecție și promovare a elitei intelectuale''. Cluj-Napoca, Editura Limes, 2007, * Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române''. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004.

External links

Official site
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