Pan Halippa
| Pantelimon Halippa | |
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| Member of the Moldovan Parliament | |
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In office 1917–1918 |
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| President of Sfatul Țării | |
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In office 25 November 1918 – 27 November 1918 |
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| Preceded by | Constantin Stere |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
1 August 1883 Cubolta |
| Died | 30 April 1979 (aged 95) Bucharest |
| Resting place | the cemetery of Cernica Monastery |
| Political party | Bessarabian Peasants' Party |
| Other political affiliations |
National Peasants' Party |
| Spouse(s) | Eleonora Circău |
| Children | one son |
| Alma mater | University of Yuryev (today University of Tartu) |
| Profession | journalist |
| Religion | Eastern Orthodoxy |
| Parents | Nicolae and Paraschiva Halippa |
Pantelimon "Pan" Halippa (1 August 1883 – 30 April 1979) was a Bessarabian and later Romanian journalist and politician. One of the most important promoters of Romanian nationalism in Bessarabia and of this province's union with Romania, he was president of Sfatul Țării, 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 régime 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 Moldova's Raionul Sîngerei. 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 (today University of Tartu), 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 Romanian-language publication in Bessarabia in that period. In its pages he printed the revolutionary hymn "Deșteaptă-te, române!", which caused the Tsarist authorities to seek his arrest.
Taking refuge in Iași, he enrolled in the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Iași, where he took classes from 1908 to 1912. At this time he worked on the magazine Viața românească, in which he published "Scrisori din Basarabia" ("Letters from Bessarabia"). In 1908, he published Pilde și novele ("Proverbs and Novels") in Kishinev (using Cyrillic), the first Bessarabian fiction novel, while in 1912 "Basarabia, schiță geografică" ("Bessarabia, Geographic Sketch") appeared. Returning to Kishinev in 1913, he published, together with Nicolae Alexandri and with the assistance of Vasile Stroescu, the newspaper Cuvânt moldovenesc, which he directed after April 1917. He wrote unceasingly in favour of union with Romania.
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