Frații Buzești National College Explained

Frații Buzești National College
Native Name:Colegiul Național "Frații Buzești"
Headmaster:Ileana Didu
Motto:Fiat Lux
Established:1882
Type:Public
Location:Știrbei Vodă, Nr. 5, Craiova, Dolj County
Country:Romania
Enrollment:1,900
Campus:Urban
Nickname:CNFB

The Frații Buzești National College (Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Colegiul Național "Frații Buzești") is a high school located in central Craiova, Romania, at 5 Știrbei Vodă Street.[1] It is one of the most prestigious secondary education institutions in Romania.[2]

History

The high school was named after three loyal noblemen, the Buzești brothers, Preda, Radu, and Stroe Buzescu,[3] who were the inseparable, strongest military supporters of voivode Michael the Brave; their noble blood line goes back to 1461 AD. Between 1590 and 1600 they fought valiantly, numerous times in the army of the Christian Prince Michael the Brave against the Ottoman Turks.[4] [5]

As a high school it was formally established in 1882 as "Gimnaziul Real" by an edict of "Ministerul Cultelor" (approved by Petre S. Aurelian, the Minister of Culture at the time), with a predominantly science teaching for boys.[6] The gymnasium motto consists of the two Latin words from the beginning of the Book of Genesis: Fiat Lux (Let There Be Light!).[7]

The first director of the gymnasium was Mathematics Professor Grigore Căzănescu, who provided leadership and guidance to both students and professors at the gymnasium. At its opening on November 1, 1882, the gymnasium had 62 students enrolled in the first grade; it opened in the large classroom of the gymnasium for boys in the building that is now Carol I National College, and its first language teachers were Ștefan Rudeanu for French and Ferdinand Settelin for German.[2] By 1898, there were 184 alumni of the gymnasium, but the school did not have its own building until 1930. On January 9, 1910, however, Spiru Haret - then Minister of Education and Culture ("Ministerul Instrucțiunii și Cultelor") - announced that he approved the gymnasium to be called by the name of "Frații Buzești". At that time, one of its best-known teachers was Nicolae Bănescu, professor of history and French language, who became Vice-President of the Romanian Academy. Its study programme was quite strict and severe, and had as many as 34 hours of study per week; it continued much in the same vein even in the early 1960s. By 1961 it also included compulsory, practical training in Electrotechnics engineering at the local works of "ElectroPower" factory for manufacturing electrical train Diesels, with all graduating students receiving certificates for building electrical motors and generators. The school's two rigidly disciplinarian teachers in the 1960s were Sică-Anastasie Petrescu for Mathematics, and Teodoreanu - an elderly Russian Bessarabean - for Physics.

However, the most remarkable headmaster in the entire history of the school was - between 1920 and 1940 - the professor of natural sciences Ion P. Ionescu-Argetoaia,[8] with a doctorate in Geology, who gave up a professorship at the University of Timișoara, as well as an assistant professorship at the Sorbonne, in Paris, in order to join "Frații Buzești" as its leader; he was the first to succeed in securing the approval by the Ministry of Education ("Ministerul Instrucțiunii") for the construction of the monumental building of the high school that continues to be used today. During World War II, between 1941 and 1942, the school's building was used by the German troops as a hospital for wounded German soldiers, and later, between September 1944 and 1949, it was used again—this time by the occupying soviet troops—as a hospital for the wounded Red Army soldiers; during such trying times, the school was forced to operate grossly overcrowded in the buildings of other schools in Craiova.[2] By the year 2005 there were over 15,000 high school graduates of CNFB, its popularity having increased a lot after the 1930s.

Currently, CNFB is a UNESCO-affiliated institution, endowed with high-quality teaching staff, past and present. CNFB's alumni are presently studying and contributing to research and culture at academic institutions throughout the world.[2] [9]

For over a century, the two best National Colleges of Craiova, "Frații Buzești" and Carol I National College, have been, and still are, the recognized educational paths for the inhabitants of Oltenia (especially Dolj County) towards university education; often many alumni of these two best high schools were admitted through very competitive entrance examinations to either the University of Bucharest or the local University of Craiova, with the latter being less than two miles from the buildings of the two high schools.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Știrbei Vodă St. on the Map of Craiova . www.craiovamap.ro . 2012-01-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111216115605/http://www.craiovamap.ro/en/ . 2011-12-16 . dead.
  2. Web site: Colegiul Naṭional "Fraṭii Buzești" Din Craiova La 120 De Ani. ro. Silvestru Moraru. Obervatorul. Toronto, Canada. www.observatorul.com . September 10, 2002 . August 8, 2024.
  3. Book: Iorga, Nicolae . Istoria lui Mihai Viteazul. Editura Militară . Bucharest . 1968 . 1243864 . ro.
  4. Book: Giurescu, Constantin C. . Constantin C. Giurescu . Istoria Românilor . 1935 . 2007 . Bucharest . Editura All . ro.
  5. Book: Panaitescu, Petre P. . Petre P. Panaitescu . Mihai Viteazul . Fundația Regală . Bucharest . 1936 . 29925825 . ro.
  6. Web site: Colegiul Național Frații Buzești, la ceas de sărbătoare. ro. Gazeta de Sud. November 1, 2007. August 8, 2024.
  7. http://www.cnfb.ro/userfiles/ANUARUL%20COLEGIULUI%20NATIONAL%20FRATII%20BUZESTI%201882-2007.pdf Prof. Zamfirică Petrescu, Director of National College Frații Buzești of Craiova. 2007. The Buzeshti Spirit  - Spirit Buzeṣtean
  8. Web site: Ion P. Ionescu-Argetoaia, Profesor (1880-1957) . 2012-01-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120312155428/http://www.aman.ro/files/digitale/personalitati_doljene/personalitati/I/ionescu%20argetoaia%20ion.pdf . 2012-03-12 . dead .
  9. Web site: Alumni of Frații Buzești High School studying abroad . www.cnfb.ro . 2012-01-01 . 2017-07-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170705211204/http://www.cnfb.ro/index.php?option=absolventi . dead .
  10. Web site: Paintings by Sabin Bălașa . Orda2000.narod.ru . 2012-01-01 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120213140949/http://orda2000.narod.ru/row/vita/balasa/sabin.htm . 2012-02-13 .
  11. Web site: A Romanian Painter-Sabin Bălașa . Av82.wordpress.com . 2009-06-07 . 2012-01-01.
  12. Web site: Members of the Romanian Academy . Acad.ro . 2012-01-01.
  13. Web site: Academician Mihnea Gheorghiu in Revista Clipa - Magazinul actualității culturale românești . www.revistaclipa.com . 2012-01-01 . 2016-03-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303202632/http://www.revistaclipa.com/1453/2009/05/acutalitatea/mihnea-gheorghiu-90 . dead .
  14. http://www.printulpaulderomania.ro/genealogie/bros27.jpg Carol's birth certificate
  15. News: Romanian court recognizes Briton as Carol II's grandson . A14 . . 1995-10-31 .
  16. https://web.archive.org/web/20070311093612/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/09/db0901.xml "HRH Prince Carol of Romania"
  17. Web site: Dolj-Oltenia Personalities: Mareṣ, Eugeniu Petre P. General-locotenent, medic (physician), Lt. General, b. 14 October 1907, Râmnicu Vâlcea - d. 23 August 1995. . 2012-01-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120227140632/http://www.aman.ro/files/digitale/personalitati_doljene/personalitati/M/mares%20eugeniu%20petre.pdf . 27 February 2012 . dead . dmy-all .
  18. Web site: Librăria Mihail Eminescu on Alexandru Mitru and his 30+ published books . www.librariaeminescu.ro . 2012-01-01 . 2011-11-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111104045046/http://www.librariaeminescu.ro/autor/344/Alexandru-Mitru . dead .
  19. Web site: Banul muncit . The National Chancellery (of primary education) . www.didactic.ro . Alexandru . Mitru.
  20. Web site: President of The Romanian Academy (1963-1966) . www.acad.ro . 2012-01-01.
  21. Web site: The Institute of Physical Chemistry "Ilie G. Murgulescu" of the Romanian Academy . Docstoc.com . 2010-05-13 . 2012-01-01.
  22. Web site: Major Personalities in Dolj-Oltenia . 2012-01-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120227140707/http://www.aman.ro/files/digitale/personalitati_doljene/personalitati/R/raicu%20petre.pdf . 2012-02-27 . dead .
  23. Web site: Smith . Stevie . Marin Sorescu (1936-1996) . www.poetryfoundation.org . 2012-01-01.
  24. Web site: Past President of the Romanian Academy (1984-1990) . www.acad.ro . 2012-01-01.

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