Pan Halippa
Pantelimon Pan Halippa was a Bessarabian and later Romanian journalist and politician. One of the most important promoters of Romanian nationalism in Bessarabia and of this provinces union with Romania, he was president of Sfatul rii, which voted union in 1918. He then occupied ministerial posts in several governments, following which he underwent political persecution at the hands of the Communist rgime and was later incarcerated in Sighet prison.
Halippa was born to the poor peasants Nicolae and Paraschiva Halippa in Cubolta, then in the Russian Empire and now in Moldovas Raionul Sngerei. He 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 , but a year later the Russian Revolution of 1905 broke out and he was forced to quit university. Back in Kishinev, he became involved with young Romanian intellectuals, working on Revista Basarabia, the first Romanianlanguage publication in Bessarabia in that period. In its pages he printed the revolutionary hymn Deteaptte, romne!, which caused the Tsarist authorities to seek his arrest.
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