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Andrei Șaguna National College (Brașov)

high-school in Brașov, Romania

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ18352200 ↗
Source-derived summary

Andrei Șaguna National College (Romanian: Colegiul Național "Andrei Șaguna") is a Romanian state school located at 1 Șirul Andrei Șaguna in Șcheii Brașovului, the historically Romanian neighbourhood of Brașov. The school educates children aged between 11 (5th grade – gymnasium) and 19 years old (12th grade – high school). It is considered to be the 5th best school in the country (2014, 2015). At the 2024 evaluation of Romanian secondary schools, the college came in 11th place, with a score of 9.44/10.

Since its founding in 1850, the school has had a number important Romanian personalities as either alumni or former teachers, including Lucian Blaga, Augustin Bunea, Gheorghe Bogdan-Duică, Emil Cioran, Gheorghe Dima, Victor Giurgiu, Octavian Goga, Vasile Goldiș, Titu Maiorescu, Ciprian Porumbescu, Dumitru Stăniloae, and Eugen Jebeleanu.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Andrei Șaguna National College (Brașov)” is high-school in Brașov, Romania. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Andrei, Șaguna and National, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014, 2015, 2024, 1850—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1850-01-01. For this dossier, Andrei, Șaguna and National is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “high-school in Brașov, Romania” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18352200. Authority coordinates are 45.638, 25.584. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2014, 2015, 2024 and 1850.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Andrei Șaguna National College (Brașov)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.