Alexandru Borza (1887, in

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– 3 September 1971, in

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) was a

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n botanist,

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priest and honorary archpriest of Cluj. As part of a group of professors, physicians, soldiers, and others, he helped bring

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to Romania. In 1923, he founded the Cluj Botanical Garden, which now bears his name. The

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, the first nature park of Romania, was founded in 1935 at his initiative. Before World War II, he was the president of the General Association of the Uniate Romanians (AGRU), a Greek-Catholic association. For this role, he was briefly arrested in 1948, after the Communists came to power in Romania. He was elected a post-mortem

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in 1990. He is credited with first advocating for the legal protection of ''Nymphaea lotus'' var. ''thermalis'' while he was the government minister in charge of education.

Works

*''Flora și vegetația Văii Sebeșului'', Editura Academiei, Bucharest 1959 *''Nicolae Boscaiu: Introducere în studiul covorului vegetal'', Editura Academiei, Bucharest 1965 *''Dicționar etnobotanic'', Editura Academiei, Bucharest 1968 *''Amintirile turistice ale unui naturalist călător pe trei continente'', Editura Sport-Turism, Bucharest 1987

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*I. Resmeriță: "Alexandru Borza: biolog român, ctitor al Grădinii Botanice din Cluj", Ed. Litera, Bucharest 1976. 1887 births 1971 deaths People from Alba Iulia Romanian Austro-Hungarians Romanian Greek-Catholic priests Romanian botanists Botanists active in Europe Rectors of Babeș-Bolyai University Scouting pioneers Scouting and Guiding in Romania Members of the Romanian Academy elected posthumously Members of the Romanian Academy of Sciences Prisoners and detainees of Romania Delegates of the Great National Assembly of Alba Iulia {{RomanianGreekCatholic-stub

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