Alexandru Borza
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Alexandru Borza (1887, Alba Iulia - 3 September 1971, Cluj) was a Romanian botanist, Greek-Catholic monk and honorary protopop of Cluj.
As part of a group of a group of professors, physicians, soldiers, etc., he helped bring Scouting to Romania.
In 1923, he founded the Cluj Botanical Garden, which now bears his name. The Retezat National Park, the first nature park of Romania, was founded in 1935 at his initiative.
Before World War II, he was the president fo the General Association of the United Romanians (AGRU), a Greek-Catholic association. For this, he was arrested in 1948, after the communists seized power in Romania.
[edit] Works
- Flora şi vegetaţia Văii Sebeşului, Editura Academiei, Bucharest 1959.
- Nicolae Boscaiu: Introducere în studiul covorului vegetal, Editura Academiei, Bucharest 1965.
- Dicţionar etnobotanic, Editura Academiei, Bucharest 1968.
- Amintirile turistice ale unui naturalist călător pe trei continente, Editura Sport-Turism, Bucharest 1987.
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[edit] External links
- I. Resmeriţă: "Alexandru Borza: biolog român, ctitor al Grădinii Botanice din Cluj", Ed. Litera, Bucharest 1976.
