11 Facts About Pan Halippa

Pantelimon "Pan" Halippa was a Bessarabian and later Romanian journalist and politician.

Pan Halippa then occupied ministerial posts in several governments, following which he underwent political persecution at the hands of the Communist regime and was later incarcerated in Sighet prison.

Pan Halippa attended primary school in his native village and then took courses at the Yedintsy Spiritual School and the Kishinev Theological Seminary.

Pan Halippa wrote unceasingly in favour of union with Romania.

Pan Halippa took parts in the assemblies at Cernauti and Alba Iulia, where, respectively, the acts of union of Bukovina and Transylvania with Romania were proclaimed.

Pan Halippa was a member of the National Peasants' Party after its founding in 1926.

Pan Halippa founded the Chisinau Popular University, the Moldovan Conservatory, the Society of Bessarabian Writers and Journalists and the Luceafarul Editorial Society and Bookstore in Chisinau.

In 1918 Pan Halippa was chosen corresponding member of the Romanian Academy; removed in 1948, he was restored to its ranks posthumously in 1990.

Pan Halippa died in Bucharest in 1979 at the age of 95 and is buried in the cemetery of Cernica Monastery.

Pan Halippa wrote over 280 poems, articles, sketches, translations and memorials, managing to edit a single volume of poetry during his lifetime: Flori de parloaga, prefaced by Mihail Sadoveanu.

Pan Halippa collaborated on the work Testament pentru urmasi.