Pantelimon Halippa

Hello dear readers! Today I will present you an important personality in Romania. It is almost imposible to find somebody in Romania and more especially in Bucharest who don’t heard the name Pantelimon. But how many of you know about Pantelimon Halippa?

Pantelimon Halippa or Pan Halippa was born on 1 august 1883 in Cubolta, Soroca County and died 30 April 1979 in Bucharest. He was a Bessarabian Romanian journalist and politician, one of the leading campaigners for the affirmation of the Romanian spirit for uniting the provinces of Bessarabia and Romania. He was president of the Country's Council who voted the union in 1918. He served on the minister in various governments. It was politically persecuted and imprisoned by the communist regime in Sighet. Excluded member of the Romanian Academy in 1948, reinstated in 1990.

He attended primary school in his native village in Cubolta, and courses School Edinet Spiritual and Theological Seminary in Chisinau. After graduating from seminary in 1904, he enrolled at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the University of Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia). A year later Halippa Revolution broke and was forced to quit studies. Back to Chisinau, approached the young Romanian intellectuals, working to "magazine Bessarabia", the first Romanian publication of the era in which the printed pages revolutionary anthem Wake up, Romanian, for which he was pursued by tsarist authorities.

Took refuge in Iaşi and joined the faculty of letters and philosophy, whose lectures he attended between 1908 and 1912. During this period he worked at "Romanian Life" in which he published "Letters from Bessarabia". In 1908 he printed in Chisinau, in Cyrillic, "Proverbs and novels", the first book of literary Bessarabia, and in 1912 his "Bessarabia geographical sketch". Returned to Chisinau in 1913, published together with Nicolae Vasile Alexandri and with Stroescu newspaper "Moldovan Word", whose director was. In his writings, Halippa not ceased to fight for the unification of Bessarabia with Romania.

Political activity intensified, and in 1917 established the Moldavian National Party. 1918 found the Halippa the forefront of current pro-union, for which he was elected vice-president, then president of the Country's Council, adding that the March 27, 1918, voted unification of Bessarabia with Romania. He attended meetings of the Chernivtsi and Alba-Iulia that proclaimed the union of Bukovina and, respectively, of Transylvania with Romania.

After 1918 he held several positions: Minister, State Secretary for Bessarabian (1919-1920), Minister of Public Works (1927), Minister of Public Works and Communications (1930), Minister ad interim at the Ministries of Labour, Health and Care Social (1930), secretary of state (1928-1930, 1932, 1932-1933), Senator and Member of Parliament (1918-1934), constantly seeking cultural advancement of Bessarabia.

In 1923 became a member emeritus of the Sovereign Sanctuary of Romania and in the same year, on December 29, represent Freedom Lodge in Chisinau, the annual convention of the National Grand Lodge of Romania (MLNR). In 1925 he was part of the Commission's external relations MLNR. He also acted as guarantor of friendship in our country's Supreme Council 33rd Degree of Santo Domingo. [1]

Halippa Panteleimon founded the Popular University of Moldova (1917), the Conservatory Moldavian writer and journalist Bessarabian Society, the Society of Publisher and Bookstore "Star" in Chişinău (1940). In 1932 he edited and led magazine "Life Bessarabia" and eponymous daily newspaper.

In 1950 he was arrested and jailed without trial, in Sighet, two years after being handed over to the NKVD, led to Chisinau, tried and sentenced to 25 years of forced labor in Siberia. It was moved to the Aiud prison where he was held until 1957. He died at 95 years in Bucharest, in the house on Al. Donici no. 32.

He wrote over 280 poems, articles, sketches, translations, memoirs, managing to edit in life only one volume fallow Flowers (1921, Iaşi), prefaced by Sadoveanu. He also wrote several historical studies: Bessarabia doprisoedineniâ k Rossii (1914), Bessarabia under Emperor Alexander I (1812-1825), Hasdeu "(1939). And published posthumously in "Heritage" in Chisinau Story of My Life (1990) and a volume of journalism (2001). In collaboration has also signed the book for posterity Testament (1991). Corresponding member of the Romanian Academy (1918). Excluded in 1948 Halippa was reinstated in 1990 as a member of the Romanian Academy.

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