Gheorghe Balș, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Gheorghe Balș

Date of Birth: 24-Apr-1868

Place of Birth: Adjud, Vrancea County, Romania

Date of Death: 22-Sep-1934

Profession: architect, engineer, art historian, art critic

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Gheorghe Balș

  • Gheorghe Bal? (April 24, 1868–September 22, 1934) was a Romanian engineer, architect and art historian. Born in Adjud, Vrancea County, his parents Alecu Bal? (1838-1894) and Roxanda Sturdza (d.
  • 1878) were descended from prominent Moldavian boyar families.
  • He studied in Lausanne, where he completed high school, and at the Zürich Polytechnic, where he earned an engineer's diploma.
  • In 1891, after returning home, he was hired at the bridge inspection service of Caile Ferate Române state railway carrier.
  • He worked with Anghel Saligny and possibly Louis Blanc on the King Carol I Bridge in Cernavoda and on the lighthouse in Tuzla.
  • He worked on the Port of Constan?a together with George Duca.From 1908 to 1911, he worked in the technical service of the Interior Ministry's public health division.
  • He collaborated closely with his brother-in-law Ioan Cantacuzino in the fight against tuberculosis, and was president of the Romanian Red Cross.
  • Together with Nicolae Ghica-Bude?ti, he built the Cantacuzino Institute in Bucharest in 1921.
  • He was involved with the committee for historic monuments, joining in 1913 and later becoming vice president.
  • In 1923, Bal? was elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy.
  • He died in Bucharest in 1934.Together with Ghica-Bude?ti and Nicolae Iorga, he sought to identify the influences that shaped Romanian architecture both in Moldavia and in Wallachia.
  • His research took him to Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Turkey and the Russian Empire.
  • Bal? pointed to Armenian and Georgian as well as Serbian contributions, and his work on 15th and 16th-century Moldavian architecture was favorably received.
  • He sat on numerous company boards, including those of a mine and of a credit bank for encouraging industrial firms.
  • The Bal? family had extensive rural properties in Moldavia, but his parents gradually had to sell their lands in order to pay off debts and losses by their administrators.
  • In 1880, his father sold the imposing residence in Ia?i that today houses the Music Conservatory.In 1897, Bal? married Maria ?tirbey, the daughter of prince Alexandru B.
  • ?tirbei and the sister of Barbu ?tirbey.
  • The marriage contract specifies that the bride received a trousseau of 25,000 lei, and that she wished to invest 200,000 lei of her parents' inheritance for building and furnishing a house.
  • The couple had four children: Zoe (1897-1991), Alexandru (1898-1950s), Ion (1901-1980) and Matei (1905–1976).
  • A high school in Adjud was named after Bal? in 2006.

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