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Petrescu
Petrescu is a patronymic surname common in Romania, meaning "son of Petre (other), Petre". Notable people with this surname include: *Anca Petrescu, architect and politician *Barbu Petrescu, mayor of Bucharest (1989–1990) *Camil Petrescu, writer *Cezar Petrescu, writer *Constantin Titel Petrescu, social-democratic politician *Costin Petrescu (painter), Costin Petrescu, painter *Costin Petrescu (musician), Costin Petrescu, rock music drummer *Cristian Petrescu, politician *Dan Petrescu (other) *Daniela Petrescu, long-distance runner *Dimitrie Stelaru, Dimitrie Petrescu-Stelaru, writer *Dumitru Petrescu, communist politician *Emil Petrescu, mayor of Bucharest (1914–1916; 1918) *Ghenadie Petrescu, deposed Romanian Metropolitan Patriarch *Gică Petrescu, singer *Marian Petrescu (born 1970), Romanian jazz pianist *Nicolae Petrescu (sociologist), Nicolae Petrescu (1886–1954), philosopher and sociologist *Nicolae Petrescu-Comnen, diplomat and politician *Nicolae Petr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dumitru Petrescu
Dumitru Petrescu, believed to have been born Gheorghe M. Dumitru,"Condamnarea infractorilor dela atelierele c.f.r. Grivița", in ''Universul'', 4 July 1934, p. 5 also known as Gheorghe Petrescu and Petrescu-Grivița (10 May 1906 – 13 September 1969), was a Romanian general, trade union leader, and Romanian Communist Party, Communist Party (PCR) activist. After training as a metalworker in Grivița, he took to left-wing politics, joining the underground communist groups at some point before the Grivița strike of 1933, railwaymen's strike of February 1933, which he helped organise together with Constantin Doncea and Gheorghe Vasilichi. Arrested by the Kingdom of Romania, Romanian Kingdom authorities in its wake, he received a 15-year prison sentence. He broke out of Craiova penitentiary a few months later, together with Vasilichi and Doncea, after overpowering a guard. With support from the International Red Aid, Petrescu made his way into First Czechoslovak Republic, Czechoslo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolae Petrescu-Comnen
Nicolae Petrescu-Comnen (; Gallicized as Petresco-Comnène, Petrescu-Comnène or N. P. Comnène, born Nicolae Petrescu; August 24, 1881 – December 8, 1958) was a Romanian diplomat, politician and social scientist, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Miron Cristea cabinet (between May 1938 and January 31, 1939). He debuted in France as a public lecturer and author of several books on political history, then returned to Romania as a judge and member of the University of Bucharest faculty. Comnen spent most of World War I in Switzerland, earning respect at home and abroad for his arguments in favor of nationalism, his publicizing of the Greater Romanian cause, and especially for his support of the Romanian community in Dobruja. During the Paris Peace Conference, he was dispatched to Hungary, proposing political settlements that would have made the Treaty of Trianon more palatable to Hungarian conservatives. Also noted as an eccentric who published poetry, he was often ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cezar Petrescu
Cezar Petrescu (; December 1, 1892–March 9, 1961) was a Romanian journalist, novelist, and children's literature, children's writer. He was born in Cotnari, Hodora, Iași County, the son of Dimitrie Petrescu, an engineer and a teacher. After attending elementary school in his native village, he pursued his studies at high schools in Roman-Vodă National College, Roman and Iași. From 1911 he attended the Faculty of Law at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, University of Iași, graduating in 1915. Petrescu was inspired by the works of Honoré de Balzac, attempting to write a Romanian Literature cycle, novel cycle that would mirror Balzac's ''La Comédie humaine''. He was also under the influence of the ''Sămănătorul'' critique of Romanian society. As a journalist, Petrescu made himself known as one of the editors of the magazine ''Gândirea'', alongside Nichifor Crainic and Lucian Blaga. For a long time, he was a member of the National Peasants' Party, and wrote exte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimitrie Stelaru
Dimitrie Stelaru (pen name of Dumitru Petrescu, later formalized as Petrescu-Stelaru; 8 March 1917 – 28 November 1971) was a Romanian avant-garde poet, novelist, playwright, and bohemian figure. Originating from the rural area of Teleorman County, he was paternally orphaned at birth, in the Romanian campaign of World War I. He was adopted by a bricklayer from Turnu Măgurele, who turned the boy toward the Seventh-day Adventist Church and forced him to undergo religious education. In his adolescence, Stelaru rebelled against this upbringing, and took up poetry—initially Christian-themed or neo-romantic in content. He became a habitual vagrant, taking up jobs from porter and stevedore to coal miner. His youth is hard to reconstruct, due to patchy records and Stelaru's own passion for autofiction; it is however known that he lived in extreme poverty in Bucharest, romantically involved with a tuberculosis-stricken woman, who became the focus of his early love poems. Despite his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anca Petrescu
Mira Anca Victoria Mărculeț Petrescu (20 March 1949 – 30 October 2013) was a Romanian architect and politician. Born in Sighișoara, Romania, Petrescu graduated from the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ion Mincu Institute of Architecture in Bucharest in 1973. In 1986, on the orders of President of Romania, Romanian leader Nicolae Ceaușescu, Petrescu became chief architect of the colossal Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, a thirteen-year megaproject constructing the world's second-largest civilian administrative building after the Pentagon. During the 1970s and 1980s, she was involved in many of Bucharest's redevelopment projects, which led to the relocation of thousands of residents in order to demolish their old, poor neighborhoods, replacing them with modern residential developments. Petrescu served as a member of Parliament of Romania, Parliament for the Greater Romania Party (PRM) between 2004 and 2008. On 5 August 2013, Petrescu was involv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constantin Titel Petrescu
Constantin Titel Petrescu (5 February 1888 – 2 September 1957) was a Romanian politician and lawyer. He was the leader of the Romanian Social Democratic Party. He was born in Craiova, the son of an employee of the National Bank in Bucharest. After completing high school at Saint Sava College in 1903, he studied Philosophy and Law at the University of Bucharest, earning a J.D. degree. After auditing some penal law courses at Sorbonne University in Paris, he returned to Bucharest and registered in 1911 with the Ilfov County Bar as a defense lawyer. He defended before the Ilfov Court socialist militant Alexandru Nicolau, who was eventually acquitted by the jury. In 1923, Petrescu stood trial for alleged insults addressed to the Romanian Army; with the help of a defense team that included Dem I. Dobrescu, he was acquitted. That same year, he joined Constantin Rădulescu-Motru, Virgil Madgearu, Constantin Costa-Foru, Victor Eftimiu, Grigore Iunian, Radu D. Rosetti, Dem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marian Petrescu
Marian Petrescu (born 1970, Bucharest, Romania) is a Romanian jazz pianist. Playing since the age of 4, he has been on the jazz scene since the age of 15 after appearing at Pori Jazz. He is known for his work with the renowned jazz guitarist Andreas Öberg, and many others. Petrescu moved to Sweden in the 1980s where he attended the conservatory in Stockholm. He now resides in Finland where he studied at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki. Discography * 1986: ''Pianist'' (Kompass Records) * 2006: ''Body and Soul'' (Hot Club Records) * 2009: ''Resonance Big Band Pays Tribute to Oscar Peterson'' (Resonance Records) * 2010: Marian Petrescu Quartet with Andreas Öberg – ''Thrivin' – Live at Jazz Standard'' (Resonance Records) ReferencesNAMM 2011 The Ghost of Marian Petrescu at the Bösendorfer piano boothperformance of jazz music recorded in January 2011 by Mr. Petrescu on a Bösendorfer Bösendorfer (L. Bösendorfer Klavierfabrik GmbH) is an Austrian piano manufacturer and, sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camil Petrescu
Camil Petrescu (; 9/21 April 1894 – 14 May 1957) was a Romanian playwright, novelist, philosopher and poet. He marked the end of the traditional novel era and laid the foundation of the modern novel era in Romania. He was a member of the Sburătorul and a mentor to the writer Anișoara Odeanu. Life Petrescu was born in Bucharest in 1894. He lost both his parents early in life and was raised by a relative, or a nanny from the Moșilor suburb (the sources remain quite unclear on this). Petrescu went to primary school at Obor, and to high school at Saint Sava National College, where he wrote his very first poem. Being very poor, he studied assiduously, worked to support himself, and relatively late—at the age of 29—he began his studies in philosophy at the University of Bucharest. His antisemitism is controversial, having Jewish friends such as Mihail Sebastian. In 1916, Petrescu was drafted and sent to the battlefields of then raging World War I, where he was wounded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costin Petrescu (musician)
Costin Petrescu (born in 1947 in Bucharest) is an architect, graphic artist, percussionist and Romanian-French composer. He is one of the pioneers of the Romanian rock performing in two legendary pop-rock bands, Olympic 64 and Phoenix. His love for jazz and jazz / rock led to numerous projects and collaborations with Mircea Tiberian, Marius Popp, Dan Mandrila, Johnny Răducanu, Cătălin Târcolea, Dragoş Nedelcu, Mircea Florian, Nicu Alifantis, Sergiu Cioiu. He has a prestigious activity in avant-garde contemporary music, performing alongside Iancu Dumitrescu / Hyperion Ensemble and participating in the works of other composers such as Vlad Ulpiu, Mihaela Vozganian, Horia Surianu, as well as his personal projects. In parallel, he has worked in the field of architecture for a long time with a successful career in Bucharest, Paris, and Beirut. During all this time he never abandoned his early love for graphics and drawing. He is one of the grandchildren of the painter Costin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gică Petrescu
Gică Petrescu (; 2 April 1915 – 18 June 2006) was a prolific Romanian folk music composer and performer. Born in Bucharest, he made his debut at age 18 by joining a student band, having just graduated from the Gheorghe Șincai High School in his native city. His official debut was made by performing for radio audiences in 1937. Between 1937 and 1939, he carried on singing with the Radu Ghindă and Dinu Șerbănescu orchestras at the Sinaia Casino in the Carpathian Mountains. Some music critics have compared his talent and public appeal to the likes of Frank Sinatra or Maurice Chevalier. His showmanship and charm were able to attract audiences of all ages, while his music influences combine folk with classical orchestra arrangements. He holds the record for the number of most original (composed and performed) songs (over 1,500), in an amazingly varied discography, many of which became national hits and which were covered again and again by other Romanian artists. Some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolae Petrescu Găină
Nicolae S. Petrescu-Găină (March 31, 1871; Craiova, Romania – February 15, 1931; Bucharest, Romania) was a Romanian cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comics illustrators/artists in that they produce both the litera .... Bibliography * Paul Rezeanu: Caricaturistul N.S. Petrescu-Găină, Editura Alma, Craiova, 2008 * Victoria Ionescu: Albumul „Contimporani” de Nicolae Petrescu Găină, MIM, nr. 1/1964 Caricatura militară în presa umoristică românească, de la Unire până la Războiul cel Mare (1859 - 1916)de Horia Vladimir Șerbănescu References 1871 births 1931 deaths Romanian editorial cartoonists Romanian caricaturists {{cartoonist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teodosie Petrescu
Teodosie Petrescu (; born 12 December 1955; birth name: Macedon Porcu ) is a Romanian cleric who has been the Archbishop of Tomis since 2001. Biography Early life Born in Vatra Dornei, Suceava County, Teodosie was the 17th child of the family of Procopie and Elisabeta Porcu. He followed the Neamț Monastery's Theological Seminary between 1970 and 1975, after which he became, in 1976, a student of theology at the University of Bucharest, which he graduated in 1980. After graduation, Petrescu became a teaching assistant at the Theological Institute of Bucharest. Monk and bishop He was tonsured a monk in December 1990 at the , Prahova County, receiving the name Teodosie. On 22 March 1994, the Holy Synod raised him to become a bishop and he became the vicar of the Archdiocese of Bucharest, receiving the name of Snagoveanul ("of Snagov"), being ordinated on 3 April 1994 at the Saint Spyridon the New Church of Bucharest. On 21 February 2001, the Church Electoral College summoned b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
