Pan Halippa
Romanian politician (1883–1979)
Pantelimon "Pan" Halippa (13 August [O.S. 1 August] 1883 – 30 April 1979) was a Bessarabian-born Romanian journalist and politician. A leading advocate of Romanian nationalism in Bessarabia and a key figure in the movement for the province’s union with Romania, he served as president of Sfatul Țării, the assembly that voted for union in 1918. Halippa later held ministerial posts in several Romanian governments before facing political persecution under the communist regime and imprisonment in Sighet Prison.
Biography
Halippa was born to the poor peasants Nicolae and Paraschiva Halippa in Cubolta, then in the Russian Empire and now in Moldova's Raionul Sîngerei.
Married to the teacher Eleonora Circău, he had one son. His Chișinău home is preserved as a monument today.
Education
Pan Halippa attended primary school in his native village and then took courses at the Yedintsy Spiritual School and the Kishinev Theological Seminary. After graduating from seminary in 1904, he enrolled in the Faculty of Physics and Medicine of the University of Yuryev (today University of Tartu), but a year later the Russian Revolution of 1905 broke out and he was forced to quit university, because he was a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party. Back in Kishinev, he became involved with young Romanian intellectuals, working on Revista Basarabia, the first Romanian-language publication in Bessarabia in that period. In its pages he printed the revolutionary hymn "Deșteaptă-te, române!", which caused the Tsarist authorities to seek his arrest.
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