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Women in the past and present …

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Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu

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Ana Ipătescu

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Pauline Elisabeth Ottilie Luise zu Wied (29 December 1843 – 3 March/2 November 1916) was the Queen consort of Romania as the wife of King Carol I of Romania

As "Carmen Sylva", she wrote with facility in German, Romanian, French and English. A few of her voluminous writings, which include poems, plays, novels, short stories, essays, collections of aphorisms, etc., may be singled out for special mention

Her earliest publications were "Sappho" and "Hammerstein", two poems which appeared at Leipzig in 1880. In 1888 she received the Prix Botta, a prize awarded triennially by the Académie française, for her volume of prose

aphorisms Les Pensees d'une reine (Paris, 1882), a German version of which is entitled Vom Amboss (Bonn, 1890). Cuvinte Sufletesti, religious meditations in Romanian (Bucharest, 1888), was also translated into German (Bonn, 1890),

under the name of Seelen-Gespräche. Several of the works of "Carmen Sylva" were written in collaboration with Mite Kremnitz, one of her maids of honor,

who was born at Greifs-wald in 1857, and married Dr Kremnitz of Bucharest; these were published between 1881 and 1888, in some cases under the pseudonyms Dito et Idem. These include:

Aus zwei Welten (Leipzig, 1884), a novel Anna Boleyn (Bonn, 1886), a tragedy In der Irre (Bonn, 1888), a collection of short stories Edleen Vaughan, or Paths of Peril (London, 1894), a novel Sweet Hours (London, 1904), poems, written in English. Among the translations made by "Carmen Sylva" are: German versions of Pierre Loti's romance Pecheur d'Islande German versions of Paul de St Victor's dramatic criticisms Les Deux Masques (Paris, 1881–1884) and especially The Bard of the Dimbovitza, an English translation of Elena Văcărescu's collection of Romanian folk-

songs, etc., entitled Lieder aus dem Dimbovitzathal (Bonn, 1889), translated by "Carmen Sylva" and Alma Strettell. The Bard of the Dimbovitza was first published in 1891, and was soon reissued and expanded. Translations from the

original works of "Carmen Sylva" have appeared in all the principal languages of Europe and in Armenian.

Marie of Romania (Marie Alexandra Victoria, previously Princess Marie of Edinburgh; 29 October 1875 – 18 July 1938) was Queen consort of Romania from 1914 to 1927, as the wife of Ferdinand of Romania.

Marie had become a Romanian patriot, and her influence in the country was large. A.L. Easterman writes that King Ferdinand was "a quiet, easy-going man, of no significant character… It was not he, but Marie who ruled in Romania." He credits Marie's sympathies for the Allies as being "the major influence in bringing her country to their side" in the war.

During the war, she volunteered as a Red Cross nurse to help the sick and wounded and wrote a book titled My Country to raise funds for the Red Cross, but these were by no means her most notable contributions to the war effort. With the country half-overrun by the German Army, she and a group of military advisers devised the plan by which the Romanian Army, rather than retreating into Russia, would choose a triangle of the country in which to stand and fight; and through a letter to Loïe Fuller she set in motion the series of events that brought a timely American loan to Romania, providing the necessary funds to carry out the plan. (Fortuitously, the young woman from the US embassy who delivered the letter to Fuller was the former ward of Newton D. Baker, by this time serving as U.S. Secretary of War. Fuller and the young woman travelled from Paris to Washington, DC and secured an audience with Baker who, along with U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Carter Glass, arranged the loan).

After the war ended, the Great Powers decided to settle affairs at the Paris Peace Conference. The Romanian objective was to secure the Romanian-inhabited territories from the now-defunct Austria-Hungary and Russian Empire, thereby uniting all Romanian-speakers in a single state. Romanian diplomats at the peace conference sought to achieve recognition by the Allies of the Unions of Bessarabia, Bukovina, and Transylvania with Romania, proclaimed during 1918. With the Romanian delegation losing ground in the negotiations, Prime Minister Ionel Bratianu called upon the Queen to travel to France. Marie famously declared that "Romania needs a face, and I will be that face," astutely calculating that the international press was growing tired of the endless negotiations and would be unable to resist the glamour of a Royal visit. The arrival of the so-called Soldier Queen was an international media sensation and she argued passionately that the Western powers should honour their debt to Romania (which had suffered a casualty rate proportionately far greater than Britain, France or the USA). Behind the scenes, she alternately charmed and bullied the Allied leaders into backing the Romanian cause. As a direct result of her charismatic intervention, Romania won back the initiative and successfully achieved all its pre-conference aims, eventually expanding its territory by 60%, gaining Bessarabia, Bukovina, Transylvania, as well as parts of the Banat, Crişana and Maramureş.

Elena Văcărescu (September 21, 1864 in Bucharest – February 17, 1947 in Paris) was a Romanian-French aristocrat writer, twice a laureate of the Académie française.

Through her father, Ioan Văcărescu, she descended from a long line of boyars of Wallachia (the Văcărescu family), including Ienăchiţă Văcărescu, the poet who wrote the first Romanian grammar. She was also a granddaughter of Romanian poet Iancu Văcărescu. Through her mother, Eufrosina Fălcoianu, she descended from the Fălcoianu family, a prominent clan in the times of Prince Michael the Brave.

She spent most of her youth on the Văcărescu estate near Târgovişte. Elena first got acquainted with the English literature through her English governess, Miss Allan. She also studied French literature in Paris, where she met Victor Hugo, whom she later mentioned in her memoirs. She attended courses of philosophy, aesthetics and history, and also studied poetry under the guidance of Sully Prudhomme.

The meeting that changed her life was that with Elisabeth of Wied, Queen of Romania, wife of King Carol I. The Queen invited her to the palace in 1888. Interested in Elena Văcărescu's literary achievements, she became much more interested in the person of the poet. Having not yet recovered from the death of her only daughter in 1874, Elizabeth transferred all her maternal love on Elena.

Văcărescu was the Substitute Delegate to the League of Nations from 1922 to 1924. She was a permanent delegate from 1925 to 1926. She was again a Substitute Delegate to the League of Nations from 1926 to 1938. She was the only woman to serve with the rank of ambassador (permanent delegate) in the history of the League of Nations.

In 1925 she was welcomed as a member of the Romanian Academy. She translated into French, works of Romanian poets such as Mihai Eminescu, Lucian Blaga, Octavian Goga, George Topîrceanu, Ion Minulescu and Ion Vinea.

Just before her death, Văcărescu was a member of the Gheorghe Tătărescu-headed Romanian delegation to the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War II. She is interred in the Văcărescu family crypt in the Bellu cemetery in Bucharest.

Marthe, Princess Bibesco (Marthe Lucie; née Lahovary; 28 January 1886 – 28 November 1973) was a Romanian-French writer of the Belle Époque. Bibesco's papers are at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

When Romania at last entered the war on the Allied side in 1916, Marthe worked at a hospital in Bucharest until the German army burned down her home in Posada, in the Transylvanian Alps. She fled the country to join her mother and daughter in Geneva after a quarantine exile, imposed by the German occupants, in Austria-Hungary (as a guest of the princely family of Thurn and Taxis at Latchen). There she continued to write. For most of her life, she wrote every morning until lunchtime--her journals alone fill 65 volumes.

In Switzerland, she began work on Isvor, pays des saules ("Isvor, Land of Willows"). It was Marthe's Romanian masterpiece, where she brilliantly conveyed the everyday life and customs of her people, the extraordinary mixture of superstition, deep philosophy, resignation and hope, and the unending struggle between age-old pagan beliefs and Christian faith.

Tragedy didn't spare Marthe, as her younger sister and her mother would commit suicide in 1918 and 1920 respectively. For the Bibescos life after the war was more cosmopolitan than Romanian. Among her literary friends and acquaintances, Marthe counted

Jean Cocteau, Paul Valéry, Rainer Maria Rilke, François Mauriac, Max Jacob, and Francis Jammes. In 1919, Marthe was invited to Prince Antoine Bibesco's wedding in London to Elizabeth Asquith, daughter of the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Herbert Henry Asquith, later Earl of Oxford. Princess Elizabeth Bibesco, who died in Romania during World War II, is buried in the Bibesco family vault on the grounds of Mogoşoaia. Marthe for many years occupied an apartment in Prince Antoine's Quai Bourbon house at which she held literary and political salons

During this postwar period she rebuilt Posada, her mountain home, and began restoring the other family estate, Mogoşoaia, the palace built in Byzantine style. Again in London, she met Winston Churchill in 1920, starting a warm friendship that would last until his death in 1965. When her daughter Valentine married the Romanian prince Dimitrie Ghika-Comăneşti (October 1925) in a dazzling traditional ceremony, three Queens attended, (Queen-mother Sophia of Greece, Princess Consort Aspasia Manos of Greece and Queen Marie of Yugoslavia).

Exile Eventually, Valentine and her husband were released from Romanian detention in 1958, and allowed passage to Britain, where Marthe,

now totally dependent on her writing for money, bought them a home, the Tullimaar residence at Perranarworthal in Cornwall. She remained in Paris, first living at the Ritz Hotel (1946-1948), then in her apartment at 45, Quai de Bourbon. In 1955, she was appointed a member of the Belgian Academy of French Language and Literature, on the seat previously held by Anna de Noailles (née Bibesco, princess Bassaraba de Brancovan). Marthe cherished the 1962 award of the Légion d'honneur. It was in 1960 that her novel (27 years-in-the-making), La Nymphe Europe, which was really her autobiography, was published by Plon.

Now a grande dame, she enjoyed her last great friendship with a powerful leader, Charles de Gaulle, who invited her in 1963 to an Élysée Palace reception in the honour of the Swedish Sovereigns. De Gaulle also took a copy of Isvor, Pays des Saules with him when he visited Romania in 1968, and told her in the same year: ... you do personify Europe to me. Marthe was 82 years old. She died on 28 November 1973 in Paris.

In January 2001, a national poll of the most influential women in Romania's history placed princess Marthe Bibesco in the first position as the woman of the Millennium and of the 20th century.

Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu ( 8 December 1876 - 5 March 1955 in Bucharest) was a novelist of the Romanian interwar period.

She was born in Iveşti, Galaţi County, the daughter of General Dimitrie Bengescu and of Zoe (born Stefǎnescu). She attended high-school in Bucharest and, aged 20, she married the magistrate Nicolae Papadat but her literary career was delayed because her husband was transferred from town to town (Turnu Măgurele, Buzău, Focşani, Constanţa) and because she had to take care of their four children: Nen, Zoe, Marcela and Elena.

Works Povârnişul (The Slope) - 1915; Ape adânci (Deep Waters) - 1919; Bătrânul (The Old Man) - 1920; Sfinxul (Sphinx) - 1920; Femeia în faţa oglinzii (The Woman in Front of the Mirror) - 1921; Balaurul (The Dragon) - 1923; Romanţă provincială (Provincial Romance) - 1925; Fecioarele despletite (The Disheveled Maidens) - 1926; Concert din muzică de Bach (A Concert of Bach's Music) - 1927; Desenuri tragice (Tragic Drawings) - 1927; Drumul ascuns (The Hidden Road) - 1933; Logodnicul (The Fiance) - 1935; Rădăcini (Roots) - 1938; Teatru (Selected Plays) - 1965: Bătrânul (The Old Man), A căzut o stea (A star has fallen), Medievala, Sora mea

(My Sister), Ana

Nina Cassian (pen name of Renée Annie Cassian; born 27th November 1924)

Is a Romanian poet, composer, journalist and film critic. She is noted for her translating abilities, and has rendered into Romanian the works of William Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Christian Morgenstern, Yiannis Ritsos, and Paul Celan. She has published more than fifty books of her own poetry.

Born in Galaţi, she was married with fellow writer Vladimir Colin in 1943 (divorced in 1948), and later with Al. I. Ştefănescu. At the beginning of her career, Cassian was, with Colin, one of the noted contributors to the magazine Orizont.

She had a very close relation with Ion Barbu, one of the most important Romanian poets and mathematicians.

Cassian travelled to the United States as a visiting professor in 1985. During her stay in America, a friend of hers, Gheorghe Ursu, was arrested by the Securitate for possessing a diary. The diary contained several of Cassian's poems which satirized the Communist regime and the authorities thought to be inflammatory. Hence, she decided to remain in the US.

She was granted asylum in the United States, and she currently resides in New York City.

Herta Müller (born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Müller is noted for her works depicting the effects of violence, cruelty and terror, usually in the setting of Communist Romania under the repressive Nicolae Ceauşescu regime which she has experienced herself. Many of her works are told from the viewpoint of the German minority in Romania and are also a depiction of the modern history of the Germans in the Banat, and Transylvania. Her much acclaimed 2009 novel The Hunger Angel (Atemschaukel) portrays the deportation of Romania's German minority to Stalinist Soviet Gulags during the Soviet occupation of Romania for use as German forced labor.

Müller has received more than twenty awards to date, including the Kleist Prize (1994), the Aristeion Prize (1995), the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (1998) and the Franz Werfel Human Rights Award (2009). On 8 October 2009, the Swedish Academy announced that she had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, describing her as a woman "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed".

In 2009, Müller enjoyed the greatest international success of her career. Her novel Atemschaukel (published in English as The Hunger Angel) was nominated for the Deutscher Buchpreis (German Book Prize) and won the Franz Werfel Human Rights Award. In this book, Müller describes the journey of a young man to a gulag in the Soviet Union, the fate of many Germans in Transylvania after World War II. It was inspired by the experience of poet Oskar Pastior, whose memories she had made notes of, and also by what happened to her own mother.

In October 2009, the Swedish Academy announced its decision to award that year's Nobel Prize in Literature to Müller "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed." The academy compared Müller's style and her use of German as a minority language with Franz Kafka and pointed out the influence of Kafka on Müller. The award coincided with the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism. Michael Krüger, head of Müller's publishing house, said: "By giving the award to Herta Müller, who grew up in a German-speaking minority in Romania, the committee has recognized an author who refuses to let the inhumane side of life under communism be forgotten"

Gabriela Adameșteanu ( born April 2, 1942) is a Romanian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and translator

The author of the celebrated novels The Equal Way of Every Day (1975) and Wasted Morning (1983), she is also known as an activist in support of civil society and member of the Group for Social Dialogue (GDS), as well as editor of Revista 22.

Drumul egal al fiecărei zile (The Equal Way of Every Day), a story alluding to intellectual survival in a provincial environment during the aggressive Stalinist 1950s, won her critical acclaim and the Romanian Academy prize. In 1979, she published a series of short stories under the title Dăruiește-ți o zi de vacanță ("Offer Yourself a Day Off"), which expanded on the themes of The Equal Way. During the same year, in August, she traveled to the People's Republic of Poland, where she witnessed the mood encouraged by the visit of Pope John Paul II (according to her recollections, it was "a magic sentiment of human dignity").

With Dimineață pierdută (Wasted Morning), a complex novel centered on an apparently banal conversation between two women, discreetly but fastidiously reconstructing the tragic end of the interwar generation, Adameșteanu was awarded the Writers' Union prize and was confirmed as one of the most important Romanian authors of the 1980s. Wasted Morning was set to stage by Cătălina Buzoianu in 1987, becoming the center of interest at a time when the Ceaușescu regime had entered its more repressive phase.

In 1989, a short while before the Romanian Revolution, she and other writers sent a letter of protest to the Communist leadership over the worsening conditions of life; she resigned from her position at Cartea Românească. In 1990, she joined GDS, and became editor of its magazine, 22, the following year.

Her other literary works include Vară-primăvară (a collection of short stories published in 1989), Obsesia politicii (interviews with post-1989 political figures, 1995), Cele două Românii (essays, 2000), and the 2003 novel Întâlnirea. She has translated into Romanian Guy de Maupassant's Pierre et Jean and Hector Bianciotti's Sans la miséricorde du Christ.

She was known by the historians of romanian literature as on of the biggest romanian contemporany poets. She was born at Bucharest in 29 of march 1941.In 1961 she married with the poet Adrian Paunescu. The poetic opera of Constanta Buzea counts over 20 volumes, along she added a few analogies. She died on 31 of august 2012.Her operas started to publish from 1963 to 2008 : first was “From the earth” in 1963 and the last “ The unlived” in 2008.

Ana Blandiana ( pen name of Otilia Valeria Coman; b. 25 March 1942, Timişoara) is a Romanian poet, essayist, and political figure. She took her name after Blandiana, near Vinţu de Jos, Alba County, her mother's home village.

In the late 1980s, assuming risks of reprisals of the communist regime, Blandiana started writing protest poems, in answer to the increasingly harsh demands of the system in general.

In 1984 Blandiana's poem 'Totul' ('Everything') was briefly published in the literary magazine Amfiteatru. 'Totul' was a list of elements of everyday life in Bucharest at the time, composed as a comment on the contrast between the official view of life in Romania and the alternative perception of its monotonous shabbiness. The critical nature of the poem led to the edition of Amfiteatru being withdrawn within hours of publication with the editors being dismissed. Nevertheless, the poem appeared in translation in Western media and also had limited underground circulation in Romania.

After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, she entered political life, campaigning for the removal of the communist legacy from administrative office, as well as for an open society. She left literary work in the background, although she did publish Arhitectura valurilor ("Waves' Architecture", 1990), 100 de poeme ("100 Poems", 1991), and Sertarul cu aplauze ("The Drawer of Applause", prose, 1992). In 1992 she advocates for the released from prison of old time Party member Gheorghe 'Gogu' Radulescu, a former member of the Executive Political Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and protector of herself during the communist period. Her work was translated into 16 languages.

Ana Blandiana has also published: 50 de poeme, ("50 Poems"), 1970: Octombrie, Noiembrie, Decembrie ("October, November, December"), 1972; Întâmplări din grădina mea (Occurrences in My Garden), 1980; Ora de nisip ("The Hour of Sand"), 1984; Întâmplări de pe strada mea (Occurrences on My Street), 1988; În dimineaţa de după moarte ("On the Morning After Dying"), 1996; La cules îngeri ("Angel Gathering"), 1997; Cartea albă a lui Arpagic ("Arpagic's White Book"), 1998. She has also authored 6 books of essays and 4 books of other prose writings.

One of the most powerful female figures of the Romanian Middle Ages, whose image has been immortalized both history and literature, Ms. Chiajna - or Mircioaia, named Mircea Shepherd, Mr. Wallachia, who became her husband when she was barely 21 years - Petru Rares daughter and granddaughter of Stephen the Great, was born in 1525. The girl was only 2-3 years old when her father ascended the throne in Suceava, being practically raised by her stepmother, Helen, downward Serbian rulers, whom the prince had married after the death of his first wife, Mary.

Mrs. Chiajna

Ana Ipătescu (b. 1805 , Bucharest - died 13 March 1875 , Bucharest ), revolutionist. Ana Ipătescu came to public attention with the events that marked the revolution

of 1848 the Romanian Country. Counterrevolutionary forces, the revolutionary government resulted in the arrest of 19 June 1848 , has sparked discontent supporters via internal reform program in the country. Along with Nicholas Golescu , revolutionary and Minister of Interior designated portfolio, Ana Ipătescu undertook a mission to convince the masses that only through a unified movement could be saved revolution. He was so infuriated crowd which indicated where conservative nobles, led by Colonel John Solomon, the government planned dismantling and restoring old liberal political principles.

News about the courage of his actions kept the front page of newspapers European good reason Alexander G. Golescu to suggest in a letter to Nicholas Balcescu that this example should be followed by other Romance. Her husband's participation in the revolutionary movement was sanctioned by the suzerain power of detention in a prison in the Ottoman Empire.

In 1850 , Ana Ipătescu managed to get a spectacular release. Immediately after this episode, his public presence has entered into obscurity. He wanted to be buried at the Monastery bird, but his tomb stone could not be identified. Ana Ipătescu remains a symbol of Romanian movement of 1848.

Ecaterina Teodoroiu : born Cătălina Toderoiu; January 15, 1894 - September 3, 1917) was a Romanian woman who fought and died in World War I, and is regarded as a

heroine of Romania. In October 1916, Ecaterina joined the Romanian Army during the first Jiu battle when

General Ion Dragalina's 1st Army repulsed the 9th German Army offensive. A Scouts' member, she had initially worked as a nurse but she subsequently decided to become a front-line soldier, being deeply impressed by the patriotism of the wounded and by the death of her brother Nicolae (Sergeant in the Romanian Army). It was an unusual decision for a woman of that epoch, so she was sent to the front rather reluctantly. However, soon she proved her worthiness as a symbol and as a soldier. She was taken prisoner but managed to escape by killing two, or perhaps three German soldiers. In November, she was wounded and hospitalized, but came back to the front where she was soon decorated, advanced in rank to Sublocotenent (Second Lieutenant) and given the command of a 25-man platoon.

For her bravery she was awarded the Military Virtue Medal, 1st Class. On September 3, 1917 (August 22 Old Style), she was killed in the Battle of Mărăşeşti (in

Vrancea County), where she was hit in the chest by German machine gun fire. According to some accounts, her last words before dying were: "Forward, men, I'm still with you!"

She was buried in the city center of Târgu Jiu, and her grave is honored by a monument erected in 1936 by Miliţa Petraşcu.

Students:

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Ilie Octavian

Iordache Tiberius

Bulumez Ana

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Alexandru

Teachers:

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Gheorghe Evelina

Hariclea Hariclea DarcléeDarclée

was a celebrated was a celebrated Romanian operatic sopranoRomanian operatic soprano

She possessed an agile, powerful, She possessed an agile, powerful, and beautiful voice that was wielded and beautiful voice that was wielded with a fine technique. An extremely with a fine technique. An extremely beautiful woman, Darclée's stage beautiful woman, Darclée's stage presence was as elegant and refined presence was as elegant and refined as her singing as her singing

Throughout her career she Throughout her career she participated in several world participated in several world premieres, including originating the premieres, including originating the title roles title roles in Puccini's in Puccini's ToscaTosca, Mascagni's, Mascagni'sIrisIris, , and Catalani's and Catalani's La WallyLa Wally

Under the high patronage of the Under the high patronage of the President of Romania – President of Romania – Hariclea Hariclea DarclDarcléée International Voice e International Voice CompetitionCompetition 1860 - 1939

… in the past

Maria Maria TănaseTănase was a renowned singer was a renowned singer

of Romanian folkloreof Romanian folklore

  1939 – she takes part to New York World’s Fair where she sings before the former president of the U.S.,Roosevelt, Andre Gide and Yehudi Menuhin

recording in Columbia

studios in London or Vienna at only 24 years

1913 - 1962

… in the past

Maria Lătăretu

1911 -1972

• was a Romanian singer of Romanian folk music

• It was one of the most popular performers in the industry, being named as the "Nightingale of Gorj", "Romanian song Queen", "Princess Romanian folk song“

•Pleasant sight with hidden dimples in the upper lips, pearly teeth and eyes of fireflies, Mariţa is an authentic peasant from Gorj, who can say a lot of wonderful songs of great charm

… in the past

Lola Lola

BobescuBobescu was a  violinist of Romanian originwas a  violinist of Romanian origin Although established abroad even Although established abroad even before the end of World War II, she before the end of World War II, she returned to Romania and regularly returned to Romania and regularly appeared in concerts with the Radio appeared in concerts with the Radio Philharmonic in Bucharest Philharmonic in Bucharest

She is Catherine Deneuve with violin She is Catherine Deneuve with violin andand Yehudi Menuhin called her "the Yehudi Menuhin called her "the greatest and most beautiful violinist in greatest and most beautiful violinist in the world“the world“

1921-2003

… in the present

Maria Ciobanu

B: 1937

• is a popular singer of Romanian folk music

• After she interpreted the song “Lie, ciocârlie” in their own style, in 1973, Maria Ciobanu received a well deserved name: 'Ciocârlia (lark) of Romanian folk song‘

•An impressive vocals that caress the souls of those who listen

• On June 4, 2008, Maria Ciobanu was given the rank of ambassador of Romania to the UN

… in the present

Angela Angela Gheorghiu Gheorghiu

  is a Romanian soprano is a Romanian soprano

Since her professional debut in Since her professional debut in 1990, she has performed in the 1990, she has performed in the leading roles of several operas at leading roles of several operas at New York'sMetropolitan Opera, New York'sMetropolitan Opera, London's Royal Opera House, London's Royal Opera House, the Vienna State Opera, Milan's La the Vienna State Opera, Milan's La Scala, and many other opera Scala, and many other opera houses in Europe and the United houses in Europe and the United StatesStates

The newsThe newspapers written: “ A star papers written: “ A star is born,is born, the most glamorous and the most glamorous and gifted opera singer of our time”gifted opera singer of our time”

B:1965

… in the present

InnaInnaElena Alexandra Elena Alexandra ApostoleanuApostoleanu

is a Romanian dance pop singer, dancer and is a Romanian dance pop singer, dancer and occasional songwriteroccasional songwriter

On November 12, 2008, she released her On November 12, 2008, she released her debut single "Hot“.The single performed debut single "Hot“.The single performed strongly on the Romanian Top 100, peaking at strongly on the Romanian Top 100, peaking at number five in December 2008.  It also number five in December 2008.  It also became an airplay success worldwide. It has became an airplay success worldwide. It has 65.000.000 65.000.000 views on Youtubeviews on Youtube

Her sixth single "Sun Is Up" became a Her sixth single "Sun Is Up" became a number-one hit in number-one hit in Bulgaria Bulgaria and a top three and a top three inTurkey, France, Romania, Russia, inTurkey, France, Romania, Russia, and Switzerland. and Switzerland. In the first week of release, In the first week of release, the video had made over a million views on the video had made over a million views on Youtube.Youtube.

B: 1986

… in the present

Alexandra Alexandra StanStan Alexandra StaAlexandra Staии

is a Romanian singer-songwriteris a Romanian singer-songwriter

She released her debut single, "Lollipop She released her debut single, "Lollipop (Param Pam Pam)", in late 2009. The song (Param Pam Pam)", in late 2009. The song impacted United States mainstream radios in impacted United States mainstream radios in early 2010, peaking at number-eighteenearly 2010, peaking at number-eighteen

Her sophomore release, "Mr. Saxobeat", Her sophomore release, "Mr. Saxobeat", became her worldwide breakthrough hit, became her worldwide breakthrough hit, selling almost 1,000,000 copies in less than a selling almost 1,000,000 copies in less than a year and reaching the top five in over twenty year and reaching the top five in over twenty countries countries

On June 4, 2012, she released a new song On June 4, 2012, she released a new song called "Lemonade", which has well over 23 called "Lemonade", which has well over 23 million views as of October 12th.million views as of October 12th.

B: 1989

… in the present

Ileana Ileana SărăroiuSărăroiu

was a renowned Romanian singer was a renowned Romanian singer

of traditional, popular/folk musicof traditional, popular/folk music She remains one of the most important She remains one of the most important

Romanian female folk singers Romanian female folk singers One of her song-masterpieces is One of her song-masterpieces is

"Unde e T"Unde e Tâârgovirgovişştea“ (Where is My tea“ (Where is My Beloved Targoviste). Is a story of a sad Beloved Targoviste). Is a story of a sad mother who waits for her son in a train mother who waits for her son in a train station from a Romanian town. She does station from a Romanian town. She does not see anybody came except a girl who not see anybody came except a girl who she has never seen before. The girl turns she has never seen before. The girl turns out to be the wife of her sonout to be the wife of her son

She was called “Golden Chrysanthemum” She was called “Golden Chrysanthemum” in Romanian musicin Romanian music

1936 - 1979

… from our region

Laura Laura StoicaStoica

born in Targoviste in born in Targoviste in 10. October.1967 10. October.1967

she was a student of our schoolshe was a student of our school

a former colleague of our English Teacher a former colleague of our English Teacher

was a Romanian singer, composer and actresswas a Romanian singer, composer and actress

in 1986, she graduated from the "Popular Arts in 1986, she graduated from the "Popular Arts School" in Târgovişte with a degree in classic canto. School" in Târgovişte with a degree in classic canto. Afterwards, she participated at all the major new-Afterwards, she participated at all the major new-talent contests held in Romaniatalent contests held in Romania

on March 9, 2006, Laura Stoica and her fiancé lost on March 9, 2006, Laura Stoica and her fiancé lost their lives in a car accident. their lives in a car accident. She was pregnant at the She was pregnant at the timetime

1967 - 2006

… from our town

Students:

Tudorache Adrian Cazan Daniela Gradinaru Mihai

Dragut Valentin Nicolae Aurel

Sandu Ileana Chita Diana Busuioc Mihaela

Radu Andreea

Dumitru Sebastian Ilie Catalina Caramalau

Ana Florea Mihai

Coordinators:

Stancu Valentin

Lazarescu Lia

Dogaru Alina

She was the first women neurosurgeon from S-E of Europe.In 1944 Sofia Ionescu when she was only 24 years , she

had brain surgery a child emergehcy of inter vation of more than 60 years ago has been recognized as a mondial premiere, by the

Mondial Congres of Neurosurgeon Women in 2005.

Sofia Ionescu

Ana Aslan

Ana Aslan was a romanian specialist in gerontology , academician since 1974 director of the national institute of geriatrics and gerontology.

She reveled the importation of procain in improvement of distrophic disorders age-related applying in on a large seale in the geriantrics clinic under the name Gerovital .

Many international personalities fallowed a treatment with gero vital :CHARLS DE GAULLE ; INDIRA GANDHI, MARLENE DIETRICH.

Ana Aslan invented the geriatric product ASLAVITAL patented and introduced in industrial production in 1980.

in the past…

Raluca Ripan (born June 27, 1894, Iaşi - died December 5, 1972, Cluj-Napoca) was a chemist, members of the Romanian Academy.

Known for macro-and microchemical methods for the determination of some cations and some anions, Professor Emeritus, studies of complex combinations constitution, very important work in chemistry: Analytical chemistry quantitative-Semimicroanaliza (1963) and Metal Chemistry (1969)

Stefania Mărăcineanu was a Romanian chemist and physicist of international renown. She formulated theories about radioactivity artificial radioactivity artificial rain triggering process. She launched and other controversial assumptions, such as the influence of sunlight or rainwater on radioactivity.

Hypothesis that sunlight could induce artificial radioactivity was thoroughly discussed in the scientific community since then, both in France and in Germany and England. It seems that the dispute was quite lively and contributed to the group Mărăcineanu Stephanie isolation from Curie laboratory.

in the past…

Aurora Liiceanu , Psychology PhD, has worked in the field of research and she has tought psychology for different universities

in Bucharest but also at UQAM(Canada) and EHESS(France) . Currently, she is a senior researcher at ahe ‘Constantin

Rodulescu-Motru’ Institute of Philosophy and Psychology within the Romania Academy.

Aurora Liiceanu

Dana Mihaela Jianu, MD PhD, is nationally and internationally renowned for his expertise and contribution to the aesthetic plastic surgery. She is specialized in plastic, aesthetic and reconstructive surgery, focusing on LASER applications in aesthetic and regenerative surgery , also PhD in the surgery of extremities, malformations and bioethics. She is also the inventor of the medical Doll DAN-A-JOY.

Dr Jianu is founding member and Vice-President of the Romanian Society of Plastic Surgery (RASS), National Secretary of International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS) and historian of the European Association of the Societies of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (EASAPS). She is member of  many national and international well-known organizations: the National Society of Plastic Surgery and Burns.

Dana Mihaela Jianuin the present…

Adina Alberts, a woman passing by scalpel stars in Romania.

It is one of the best doctors in Romania aestheticians, has over 25 diplomas recognized abroad and over 60 clients a week. After about 500 exams and many other personal sacrifices, Adina Alberts wrote recipe in the world of beauty. She has its own plastic surgery and aesthetic clinic, Care Zone, and is among the most successful women in Romania. How to get here and how her life looks right now, read below.

Dr. Adina Alberts founded a sanctuary of harmony and beauty of the human body. She studied all treatments that practice and is convinced of their effectiveness. Is convinced that only offer treatments with proven results internationally will be able to bring long-term patient satisfaction.Dr. Adina Alberts graduated from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila" in 1996. He worked under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Ioan Lascar 9, Clinical Emergency Hospital Bucharest. Dr. Alberts regularly participate in various conferences and symposia, wishing to keep abreast of latest developments in their field of activity. in the present…

Students:

Ciocodeica David Florin

Cazan Daniela

Nisipeanu Sorin

Ocnaru Cristina

Petre Alexandra

Ianculescu Bianca

Dima Alin

Caramalau Ana

Teachers:

CIOBANU NICOLETA

DRAGOMIR VALI

GEORGESGU GABRIELA

Smaranda Brăescu (May 21, 1897 – February 2, 1948) was a Romanian flight and parachutist pioneer. She was the first female Romanian pilot, the European skydiving champion on October 2, 1931, the world champion in 1932 with a jump of 7200 m near Sacramento, California, and set a record crossing the Mediterranean Sea.

Lia Manoliu (April 25, 1932 – January 9, 1998 in Bucharest) was a Romanian discus thrower, winner of gold at the Summer Olympics in Mexico in 1968 and bronze at the Summer Olympics in Rome in 1960 and the summer Olympics in Tokyo in 1964.She was the first Track & Field athlete to compete at six Olympics.

Angelica Rozeanu (October 15, 1921 – February 22, 2006 ) was one of the most successful female table tennis players in the history of the sport. She was the first Romanian woman to win a World title in any sport.

Iolanda Balaş ( later Söter, born 12 December 1936) is a former Romanian athlete, Olympic champion and world record holder in high jump, who is considered one of the greatest high jumpers ever.She won two Olympic gold medals at Rome in 1960 and Tokyo in 1964. Between 1957 and 1966, Balaş won 150 consecutive competitions, not including qualifying competitions or exhibitions. She improved the world record 14 times, from 1.75 m to 1.91 m, and equalled it once outdoors and once indoors.

Constantina Diţă (born on January 23, 1970), is a Romanian long-distance runner, who specializes mainly in the half marathon and marathon. Diţă won the women's marathon at the 2008 Summer Olympics. At 38 years of age, she became the oldest Olympic marathon champion in history.

Elisabeta Lipă (born October 26, 1964) is the most decorated rower in the history of the Olympics, winning five golds, two silvers and one bronze. She holds the record amongst rowers for the most years between gold medals, at 20 years.In 2004, she became the first female rower to compete at six Olympics. She was awarded the 2008 Thomas Keller Medal at the Rowing World Cup in Lucerne.

Maria Uca-Marinescu (born May, 15, 1940) is the best Romanian female explorer of all time, being the first woman of any nation to walk Africa from top to bottom alone and without help and the first Romanian to walk to both North and South Poles.

She is the first woman in the world to reach the four poles of the Earth (geographic and magnetic).

Romanian 16 years old Crina COCO Popescu (born December, 3, 1994) is the youngest mountaineer worldwide and also the first woman to finish the Volcanic 7 Summits Circuit – reaching the summits of the highest Volcanoes on 7 continents.She has 7 world records and two European age.

At just 14 years old, mountaineer Alexandra Marcu (born 1997) climbed the highest peaks of the world.She is the youngest European to climb the volcano Pico de Orizaba in Mexico (5636 m), Mont Blanc, the highest peak in Western Europe, Uhuru Peak (5895 m) in the Kilimanjaro Mountains, the highest volcano in Africa, and the volcano Kazbek (5047 meters) in Georgia.

Sorana Cîrstea was born 7 April 1990 in Bucharest, but currently resides in Târgovişte.She was introduced to tennis at the age of four by her mother. She is a Romanian professional tennis player. As of November 5, 2012, she is ranked world no. 27 and is the highest ranked Romanian player. She achieved her career-high ranking of world no. 23 in August 2009, following appearances in the quarterfinals of the French Open and the semifinals of the Los Angeles Open.

Georgeta Damian-Andrunache (born April 14, 1976) is a female rower from Romania and winner of five Olympic gold medals. She rowed in the Romanian Women's Eights, With Viorica Susanu, she won the World Championships in the pairs in 2001 and 2002, and at the2004 Summer Olympics she won gold medals in both pairs and eights.

Gabriela Szabo (born November 14, 1975) is a Romanian track and field athlete, winner of the gold medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics in 5000 m and winner of bronze and silver medals in 1996 Summer Olympics and 2000 Summer Olympics in 1500 m, respectively. Szabo is also a three-time world champion. She remains the European record holder in 3000 m.

Nadia Comăneci (born November 12, 1961) is a Romanian gymnast, winner of three Olympic gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and the first female gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She is also the winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. She is one of the best-known gymnasts in the world. In 2000 Comăneci was named as one of the athletes of the century by the Laureus World Sports Academy. Comăneci received the Olympic Order, the highest award given by the International Olympic Committee, in 1984 and 2004. She is the only person to have received this honour twice, and was also the youngest recipient. She has also been inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.

Nadia Comaneci’s Perfect 10

Andreea Răducan (born 30 September 1983) was the first Romanian gymnast to win the Olympic all-around title since Nadia Comăneci in 1976; it was also the first time since 1960 that gymnasts from a single country swept the WAG all-around podium at the Olympics. It was also the last time it was possible for three gymnasts from the same country to sweep the all around, as the 'two per country rule' was introduced in the next Olympic cycle.

Cătălina Ponor (born August 20, 1987) is aRomanian artistic gymnast. She won three gold medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics, on balance beam, floor, and as part of the Romanian team. She also obtained a silver medal on floor and a bronze medal as part of the Romanian team at the 2012 Summer Olympics, as well as multiple World Championship and European Championship medals.

Sandra Izbaşa (born June 18, 1990) is a Romanian artistic gymnast. She is a double Olympic champion, on floor at the 2008 Olympics and vault at the 2012 Olympics. She is a further winner of two Olympic bronze medals (as part of the Romanian team, in 2008 and 2012), and multiple World Championship and European Championship medals.

Students

Barbu Cosmin Moraru Vlad Iordan Daniel

Paun Alexandru Iotu Daniel Vasile Marius Mihai

Tudor Diana Duta Ana Andrada Nicolae Aurel

Sirbu Bogdan Chivu Dragos Cristian Ilie Ariana Roxana

Teachers

IANA LUMINITA

POPESCU MANUELA

POPA GEORGETA