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Horia (name)
Horia is a Romanian-language male name that may refer to: * Horia Agarici * Horia Bernea * Horia Bonciu * Horia Brenciu * Horia Creangă * Horia Colibășanu * Horia Damian * Horia Demian * Horia Furtună * Horia Gârbea * Horia Hulubei * Horia Macellariu * Horia Moculescu * Horia-Roman Patapievici * Horia Sima * Horia Tecău Horia Tecău (; born January 19, 1985) is a Romanians, Romanian former professional tennis player who specialised in doubles. He is a three-time Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam champion, having won the 2015 Wimbledon Championships – Men's doub ... {{given name, Horia Romanian masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horia Agarici
Horia Agarici (; April 6, 1911 – July 13, 1982) was a Romanian aviator and World War II flying ace. Early life Agarici was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, in the family of Constantin and Valeria, née Russo (Alecu Russo was a relative of hers). Valeria died in 1914, when Horia was 2 years old. The death of his mother and the remarriage of Constantin to Sofia Cerna, the daughter of a Bucharest lawyer, alienated Horia from his father. Agarici lived much of his youth in Iași, Brașov, and Bucharest, where he attended the primary and the secondary schools. In 1929 he enrolled at the Polytechnical School in Timișoara; however, he dropped out for financial reasons (which also plunged him into depression), and in 1930 he enrolled instead at the Military Flying School in Bucharest. Military career For health reasons, he wasn't able to start his military training until 1931. Agarici didn't adapt easily to the military lifestyle: his military appearance looked a bit unkempt, he learned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horia Gârbea
Horia-Răzvan Gârbea or Gîrbea (; born August 10, 1962) is a Romanian playwright, poet, essayist, novelist and critic, also known as an academic, engineer and journalist. Known for his work in experimental theater and his Postmodern literature, Postmodernist contributions to Literature of Romania, Romanian literature, he is a member of the Writers' Union of Romania (USR), its public relations executive and the head of its Bucharest chapter. Also recognized for his contribution to Romanian humor and his essays, he has published regularly in journals such as ''Contemporanul'', ''Luceafărul (magazine), Luceafărul'', ''Ramuri'', and ''Săptămâna Financiară''. His career in the media also covers screenwriting for Television in Romania, Romanian television stations and the popularization of contract bridge. The author of several scientific works on engineering, Gârbea is also a faculty member at the University of Agronomical Sciences and Veterinary Medicine. The recipient of sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horia Tecău
Horia Tecău (; born January 19, 1985) is a Romanians, Romanian former professional tennis player who specialised in doubles. He is a three-time Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam champion, having won the 2015 Wimbledon Championships – Men's doubles, 2015 Wimbledon Championships and 2017 US Open – Men's doubles, 2017 US Open alongside Jean-Julien Rojer in men's doubles, as well as the 2012 Australian Open – Mixed doubles, 2012 Australian Open with Bethanie Mattek-Sands in mixed doubles. Tecău also reached five further Grand Slam finals: at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships – Men's doubles, 2010, 2011 Wimbledon Championships – Men's doubles, 2011 and 2012 Wimbledon Championships – Men's doubles, 2012 Wimbledon Championships with Robert Lindstedt in men's doubles, and at the 2014 Australian Open – Mixed doubles, 2014 and 2016 Australian Open – Mixed doubles, 2016 Australian Opens in mixed doubles. He reached his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 2 in November 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horia Sima
Horia Sima (3 July 1906 – 25 May 1993) was a Romanian fascist politician, best known as the second and last leader of the fascist paramilitary movement known as the Iron Guard (also known as the Legion of the Archangel Michael). Sima was also the Vice President of the Council of Ministers and ''de facto'' co-leader in Ion Antonescu's National Legionary State. Sima had previously served briefly as State Secretary of Education under Gheorghe Tătărescu in 1940, and as a short-lived Minister of Religion and Arts in the government of Ion Gigurtu. In January 1941, Sima initiated and led the Legionnaires' Rebellion against '' Conducător'' Ion Antonescu and the Romanian Army, for which he was sentenced to death, as well as the Bucharest pogrom, the largest and most violent pogrom against Jews in the history of Muntenia. Following the rebellion, Sima escaped to Germany, and later to Spain, where he lived until his death. In 1946, the Romanian People's Tribunals again sentenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horia-Roman Patapievici
Horia-Roman Patapievici (; born March 18, 1957) is a Romanian conservative and classical liberal writer, physicist, and essayist who served as the head of the Romanian Cultural Institute from 2005 until August 2012. Between 2000 and 2005, he was a member of the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives, supporting more openness regarding the files of the Securitate. Biography Denis Patapievici, his father, moved from Chernivtsi, Cernăuți (now in Ukraine) to Occupied Poland in 1940, after the Soviet Union Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina, occupied and took away northern Bukovina from Romania. Horia Roman Patapievici was born in Bucharest and graduated from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Physics in 1981, where he specialized in the study of lasers. Between 1986 and 1994, he worked as a scientific researcher at the Academy Institute, during which time he also worked as a university assistant at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horia Moculescu
Horia Moculescu (born 18 March 1937 in Râmnicu Vâlcea, Romania) is a self-taught Romanian pianist, composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ..., and producer. After finishing high school in Turda, he studied at the Mining Institute in Petroșani. Throughout his career span, he played with many first-class Romanian musicians including Radu Goldiș. He has been married four times and has two children. Compositions * '' Mireasma ploilor tîrzii'' (1985) * '' Vară sentimentală'' (1986) * '' Primăvara bobocilor'' (1987) * '' Maria și marea'' (1989) * '' Secretul armei... secrete!'' (1989) * '' Miss Litoral'' (1991) * '' Pistruiatul'' (1973) Film music *''Pistruiatul'' (1973) *''Nu filmăm să ne amuzăm'' (1974) Distinctions *''Marele Premiu al Uniunii Compozit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horia Macellariu
Horia Macellariu (10 May 1894 – 11 July 1989) was a Romanian rear admiral, commander of the Royal Romanian Navy's Black Sea Fleet during the Second World War. Early life Horia Ion Pompiliu Macellariu was born in Craiova on . After undergoing military studies, he became a marine officer in 1915. During World War I, he served as the captain of the Romanian command ship ''Principele Nicolae''. Throughout the war, he distinguished himself, being decorated with the Order of the Romanian Crown, Knight rank. In 1927–1928, he studied at the Naval War School in Paris, where the French President also decorated him with the Legion of Honour, Knight rank. After returning to Romania, he commanded several Romanian warships throughout the 1930s: the torpedo boat ''Vârtejul'', the river monitor ''Lascăr Catargiu'', the monitor ''Mihail Kogălniceanu'' and the destroyer ''Regina Maria''. Career during World War II When Romania entered the war with Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horia Hulubei
Horia Hulubei (; 15 November 1896 – 22 November 1972) was a Romanian nuclear physicist, known for his contributions to the development of X-ray spectroscopy. Education and military service Born in Iași, he graduated in 1915 first in his class at the Boarding High School of Iași. He then enrolled in the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Iași, but his studies were interrupted by the entry of Romania in World War I; conscripted into the army, he fought as a second lieutenant at the battles of Nămoloasa, Băltăreți, and Mărășești in the summer of 1917. General Henri Mathias Berthelot, the head of the French military mission to Romania, decided to send a group of young Romanians (including Hulubei) to France to train at an aviation school; upon completing the training, Hulubei participated as a pilot on a fighter aircraft of the French Air Service on the Western Front. Gravely wounded, he was awarded the Legion of Honour. Upon returning to Romania, he worked f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horia Furtună
Horia Furtună (June 21, 1888 – March 8, 1952) was a Romanian poet, playwright and prose writer. Born in Focșani, his father Ioan Ștefănescu was inspector general of the veterinary service; his mother was Speranța-Plautina (''née'' Vasiliu). In 1883, his father formally changed his surname to Furtună. Horia studied law at the University of Paris, graduating in 1909 and earning a doctorate in 1915; his thesis dealt with legal remedies for insurers faced with risk created by third parties to contracts. From 1915, he practiced law at the Ilfov County bar, and then directed the theatre service of Radiodifuziunea Română from 1934 to 1948. Together with Ion Pillat and Adrian Maniu, he headed '' Flacăra'' magazine in 1916. He and Pillat founded the ''Cărțile albe'' collection, which put out Alexandru Macedonski's '' Flori sacre'' in 1912. From 1916 to 1918, he fought in World War I, being taken prisoner and interned at Stralsund. His literary debut took place in the ''Ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horia Bernea
Horia Bernea (14 September 1938, Bucharest – 4 December 2000, Paris) was a Romanian painter, who is considered part of the Neo-Orthodox Movement. Between 1990 and 2000, he was director of the Museum of the Romanian Peasant (Muzeul Țăranului Român, MȚR). His father was the sociologist and ethnographer Ernest Bernea Ernest Bernea (28 March 1905 – 14 November 1990) was a Romanian sociologist, ethnographer, photographer, philosopher, poet, and far-right ideologue. Early life and education Ernest Bernea was born on 28 March 1905 in Focșani, Vrancea Count .... External linksPaintings * Editura Liternet [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horia Demian
Horia Demian (9 April 1942 – 8 April 1989) was a Romanian basketball player who played for Universitatea Cluj (Știința Cluj between 1951–1965, currently U-BT Cluj-Napoca) from 1960 until 1970. During that period, U Cluj finished second in one season and third in four seasons in the Romanian Basketball Division A. Career Born in Cluj, he was selected to play in the Romania national basketball team 165 times and received the award "Maestru al Sportului" from the Romanian Basketball Federation in 1964. He took part in four Eurobasket tournaments, including the Eurobasket 1967 in Finland, where Romania classified fifth, its best classification in history. After ending his career as player, he continued as coach. Although receiving offers to play elsewhere, including the American professional league, he remained loyal to his team. In 2005, the readers from the newspaper Ziarul Clujeanului voted him the best basketball player from Cluj-Napoca of all times. The readers chose him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horia Damian
Horia Damian (Bucharest, 27 Feb 1922 – Paris 14 May 2012) was a Romanian painter and sculptor. Biography Damian enrolled at the School of Architecture in Bucharest in 1941. In that same year he made his debut at the ''Salonul Oficial de Pictură'' at in Bucharest. His first one-man show took place at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest in 1942. He was awarded the Anastase Simu Prize for painting. In 1946, he won a scholarship to Paris, where he later settled. After a few months with André Lhote he worked with Daniel Lager in 1949–50 and then studied with Auguste Herbin, becoming acquainted with Piet Mondrian's work through Felix del Marle (1889–1952). This encounter with abstract art led to his first truly original paintings, such as ''Starry Night'', which consists of a geometric arrangement of white dots. He destroyed most of the works he produced during the second half of the 1950s, an experimental period for him. His works of the early 1960s, executed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
