Badea Cârțan
Badea Cârțan (about Uncle Cârțan ) with real name Gheorghe Cârțan (born January 24, 1849 in Cârțișoara , Transylvania ; † August 7, 1911 in Sinaia ) was a Romanian shepherd .
Live and act
Cârțan, born in Oprea Cârțișoara ( Kleinkerz ) - a district of Cârțișoara - went to Rome for the first time on foot in 1894 to see the representations of the Dacians on the Trajan Column for himself. After that he was in Rome two more times. Cârțan fought for the independence of the Romanians in Transylvania and smuggled innumerable Romanian books over the Făgăraş Mountains from Wallachia .
In the Badea Cârțan village museum in the Cârțișoara municipality, you can see several of Cârțan's legacies.
literature
- Vasile Cărăbiş: Badea Cârțan. Propagandist de cărți româneşti . Editorial SE, Bucharest 1985.
- Ion Dianu: Pe urmele lui Badea Cârțan . Editorial Sport-Turism, Bucharest 1979.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dina Radu: Traces of the Opanken in History: Badea Cârțan , accessed on August 28, 2012 (Romanian)
Web links and sources
Commons : Badea Cârțan - collection of images, videos and audio files
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cârțan, Badea |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cârțan, Gheorghe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian shepherd |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1849 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cârțișoara , Transylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 7, 1911 |
| Place of death | Sinaia |