Five things for to be telling

1. I'm happy because my old and dear friend Marina Sozzi from Fabretti Foundation, Italy, sent to me today a mail for a stronger collaboration of us. Of course this colaboration is very possible.
2. Next week I will receive finnaly the Proceedings of Dying and Death... Conference and I will send these to all the participants at the conference as a Christmas gift. Into the Proccedings there are about 31 papers having about 400 pages.
3. This week I will send to the Publishing House Accent the Proceedings of Alcoholism.... Conference for editing it. Tudor Rosu worked hardly on these because I was busy with other things.
4. My friend Cosmin Bodrean solved the last things for legal point of view for Amurg. Romanian Cremation Association. 6 members of Amurg until now... but for time being we will start new registrations for everyone is interested in devellopment of cremation in Romania! So, BE PREPARED TO BE PULVERIZED!
4. Tomorow will be the National Day of Romania. Good thoughts for all the romanians and first of foremost for our friends for Republic of Moldova!

Famous Cremated Romanians (XII)

1. Today romanian newspaper Jurnalul National published a short but very interesting paper about the debates in Romanian Parliament about a new law on cemeteries and crematoria in Romania: http://www.jurnalul.ro/stire-special/cimitirele-srl-nu-vor-fi-sfintite-528595.html
It's very relevant the reaction of Romanian Orthodox Patriarchy's lawyer, on his name, Ionut Corduneanu upon this topic. I'm strongly disagreed with his ideas!

2. Famous Cremated Romanians:

Pandele Silva
Paul Grunau
Ion Holban
Adolf Clarnet
Maximilian Costin
Ion Ionescu Boanca
Maria Polevoi
Virgil Ioanid (Gipo)
Vlad Bilbie
Viorica Albut
Madeilene Fortunescu

My list of the famous cremated romanians have had until now about 400 names but this list is a still incomplete one...

Famous Cremated Romanians (XI)

1. On Friday I will present at the traditional conference of National Museum of Unification, Alba Iulia the romanian version of my paper Death and Cremation in Communist Romania, which I have already presented at DDD9, Durham, 2009.


2. I go on with the list of the Famous Cremated Romanians, here. I confess everytime where I find a new one name I'm surprised by it.


Dimitrie Calugareanu
Mihai Steriade
Barbu Mihail Cismarescu (Radu Gorun)
Stefan Gane
Dumitru Milcoveanu
Mihai Steriade
Ion Petru Culianu
Gherasim Luca
Ovidiu Vuia
Ion Claudian
Mircea V. Ionescu
Stefan Berindei
Adrian Lupu
Maria Badulescu (Marcela)
Virginia Maxim
Dumitru Visan
Virginia Maxim
Maxim Crisan
Adrian D. Popescu Necsesti
Ecaterina Fodor
Nicoale Enache
Constatin Teodorescu
Grigore Gr. Popa
Adolf Armbruster
Dumitru Visan
Ramses Jurvale

Famous Cremated Romanians (X)

Leon Teodorescu
Marcel Olinescu
Corneliu Albu
Cristea Grosu
Andrei Szobotka
Nicolae Korcinski
Stefan Berciu
Toma Nicolescu
Raul Erceanu
Dan Dutescu
I.M. Stefan
Mircea Petru Sion
Alexandru Cumpata
Vasile Serbanescu
Erasmus Minchevici
Maria Lydia Ranzescu
Gabriela Dissescu
Mircea Alboiu
Sorin V. Popa
Stefan H. Popescu
Razvan Djuvara
Dumitru Ghitescu
Mircea Santimbreanu
Anca Bolgiu Iliescu
Jean Dimitrescu

Famous Cremated Romanians (IX)

At my very last posting here I forgot some romanian personalities cremated in 1993 at the Cenusa Crematorium in Bucharest:

Nicolae Stamatin
Beatrice Staicu
Horia Slusanschi
Antoaneta Glodeanu
Nicolae Gaicu
Jean Bittner
Natalia Loveanu
Anton Necsulea
Sergiu Dermanji
Anemone Latzina
Iorga Matei Ionescu
Alexandru Rau

PS. Next year I will try to write an Encyclopedia of Cremation in Romania where I will give more informations about these famous cremated romanians. Attention: this is an incomplete list...

Famous Cremated Romanians (VIII)

Georgeta Breazul
Leonard Badea
Paul Gogonea
Mircea Milan Popovici
Gheorghe Labin
Victor Emanuel Dusmanescu
Costachi Pauca
Gheorghe Radu
Virginia Cornescu (Petrachescu)
Vasile Ietcu
Alexandru Ovidiu Zotta
Andrei Ostap
Gheorghe Popescu
Traian Sofonea
Mihai Barca
Mircea Alexe
Constantin Martiniuc
Petre Cristea
Aurel C. Neagu
Elvira Sliam
Traian Costa
Lucia Barbu
Gheorghe Marinescu
Traian Demian
Neculari Rene Culianu
Tudose Nitescu (Titi)
Alecu Popovici
Viorica Danila
Ovanes Ferahian
Zora Lucrici
Teodor Constatin Nadejde
Paul Constantin Petzi
Constantin Tanasescu (Titel)
Weiner Ferencz
Serghei Nicolau
Emil Caragheorghe
Elena Bronitzki

PS. Remember beyond these names it was about the death event and the dead's family and relatives grief and tears.... RIP!

Famous Cremated Romanians (VII)

Corina Lecca
Septimiu Danescu
Ecaterina Georgescu
Alexandru Rosetti
Hetea Simion (Simi)
Geroge Magherescu
Jack Fulga
Vasile Corlateanu
Ion Rachmuth
Stefan Berceanu
Iosefina Sternfeld Grefu
Ion Pascu
Nicolae Badescu
Dimitrie Protopopescu
Aura Cecilia Spacu
Dorin Moga
Ion D. Vulcanescu
Gheorghe Custura
Marin Stancu
Nicuta Costache
Iosif H. Bercovici-Andronic
Nicolae Luchian Botez
Stavrat Valeria
Natalia Panescu
Francisc Munteanu

Today romanian newspaper "Jurnalul National" published a paper about "Trandafirul Operation" during the romanian anticommunist-revolution in December 1989, when, at Cenuşa Crematoria in Bucharest, 43 dead bodies of the some people from Timişoara, killed during the riots in this town, were burnt at the Elena Ceausescu's orders. Here is the link: http://www.jurnalul.ro/stire-decembrie-89/operatiunea-trandafirul-disparitia-mortilor-timisoarei-526889.html
This is a good paper but many informations had to insert in it for a better understanding of this.
I wrote a paper about it which were accepted for publication in Mortality journal: The Mask of the Red Death: The Evil Politics of Cremation in December 1989 in Romania.

Famous Cremated Romanias (VI)

Ionel Teodorescu
Izabela Sadoveanu
Vasile Stoica
Radu Voiculescu
Sandu Dumitru
Ioan V. Nicolescu
Mihai Oltean
Laurentiu Buia
Elena Matase Dumitrescu
George Sion
Georgeta Ionescu
Francisc Strauss
Dorel Urlateanu
Mariana Crainic
Ileana Vera
Gheorghe Cristali
Bonifaciu Petrescu
Constatin Velican
Alexandru Demeter
Alexandru Socec
Alexandru Ursu
Nicu Padureleanu
Florin Tornea
Dinu Kivu
Cezarina Moldoveanu Petrescu
Vera Iordachescu
Alice Flavia Mihalcea
Alexandru Eskenasy
Frida Papadache
Gheorghe Vladulescu Racoasa

One of the main rules of the hsitorical research is to not analyze past realities just through public personalities. But, in this case *cremation, because this practice of the disposal of the body has a specific evolution in Romania I prefered to post these name heres on this blogspot for a better understanding of the topic.

Plans for the future

1. Conference:
Dying and Death in 18th-21srt century Europe, International Conference, third edition - in July or September 2010.
I don't know for sure if we will organize the second edition of Alcoholism: Historical and Social Issues, International Conference due to the financial problems, but we will try to do it. I think september is the proper time for this conference.

2. Books:
Eternitate prin Cenusa. O istorie a crematoriilor si incinerarilor umane in Romania secolelor XIX-XXI *Ashes for Eternity. A History of Cremation in 19th-21srt Century Romania
I'm going to propose toother romanian scientists to write a book togheter: History of Death in Romania from the ancient times to nowadays.

3. Papers:
I will submit an other paper of mine to Mortality, after a paper of mine have been already accepted for publication.

4. Others activities
Working on developpment of RADS and AMURG. Romanian Cremation Association
By the way, speaking about the future, I love this quote of Garabet Ibraileanu (1871-1936):
"În viaţă, de foarte puţine ori ştii mai dinainte ce ai să faci şi ce ai să vorbeşti, şi mai niciodată ce ai să simţi şi ce ai să gândeşti. Încolo, tot ce ai să faci şi ai să vorbeşti, tot ce ai să simţi şi ai să gândeşti, afli atunci când ai înfăptuit, când ai vorbit, când ai simţit, când ai gândit. Ai în faţa ta, începând chiar din clipa care urmează, viitorul, ca un neant în care înaintezi orbecăind în întuneric, căzând peste faptele şi vorbele tale, peste gândurile şi simţirile tale. Viaţa este această izvorâre de fapte, de vorbe, de gânduri şi de simţiri, peste care te îmbrânceşte etern nu se ştie cine".
I will not translate this in english saying just the main line of these words: the future like a nothingness where we are going as an walking out through the darkness...

Famous Cremated Romanians (V)

Mihai Botez
Margareta Iuca-Ritta D'oria
Constantin Radoslav
Vasile Moldovan
Ioana Munteanu
Traian Corneliu Burduloiu
Horatiu Ionescu
Constantin Creanga
Alexandru Codarcea
Ludmila Bucsan
Albet Braunstein
Alexandru Popescu Negura
Constantin Surdan
Paul Postelnicu
Adrian Fochi
Gheorghe Vrabiescu
Octavian Gheorghiu
Elena Vicica
Ioan Siclovan
Nicoale Parocescu
George Popescu Negrea
Jeanine Elefcu Martinescu
Alexandru Vitianu
Ion Maximilian
Abraham Hollinger
Vera Varzopov
Felix George Panaitescu
Stefan Crudu
Alexandru Popescu
George Sarbu
Costache Iamandi
Al. T. Stefanescu
Veturia Sonea
Ion Negru
Tia Mures
Constantin Ivanovici
A;exandru Cicio Pop
Traian R. Demetrescu
Gheorghe Manea
Ferenc Szemler
Gheorghe Istrati
Emil Popa
Gheorghe Calugareanu
Aszody Janos
Nestor Culluri
Gh. Valuta
Emil Zegreanu
Mihail Magiari
Sandra Cotavu
Miron Belea
Ion Teodorescu Exarcu
Notification:
1. I think many of these names doesn't say too much for nowadays but in those time when they lived they represented importants persons for Romania. R.I.P. for all of them, no matter how long was their life or how important footsteps of their existence left behind them...
2. This is not a comple list of the famous cremated romanians but just a little piece of this fascinated history...

Famous Cremated Romanians (IV)

Henriette Mandrea
Mia Steriadi
Nicolae Pantazi
Ernest Rossi
Lazar Iliescu
Nicolae Livezeanu
Calin Popovici
Eugenia Isbasescu Doucet
Despina Ghinokastra Istrati
Honoriu Cretulescu
Constantin Stroescu
Ilie Th. Riga
Edgar Radulescu
Emil Serghie
Tache Papahagi
Sorana Topa
Petre Teodoru
Nadia Lovinescu
Angelus Pellegrini
Iuliana Fabritius Dancu
Vlad Hatieganu
Aurel Malmasan
Gheorghe Ceasu
Irina Borovski

TO BE CONTINUED...

Famous cremated romanians (III)

Corneliu Severineanu
Grigore Graur
Emanoil Cerbu
Sergiu Milorian
Alexandru Sanielevici
Ion Tataranu
Aurelia Fatu Radutiu
Tudor Alecu
Cambrea Nicolae
Mircea Grigorescu
Maria Rab
Lascar Sebastian
Sidy Toma
Livia Storescu
Augustin Pop
Nathan Lupu
Alexandru Demtriad
I. Gr. Dumitrescu
Vasile M. Sassu
Aurel Vijoli
Iosif Cassian Matasaru
Emil Grecescu
Sorin Grigorescu
Slavomir Popovici
Lola Stere Chiracu
Octav Angheluta
Dumitru Damaceanu
Ion Mircea Nonu
Liubomir Gheorghe Baciki
Alexandru Gutu
Nicolae Patrichi
Barbu Alexandru Emandi
Mircea Bogdan
Florica Selmaru
Majtenyi Erik
Dumitru Tudor
Nicolae Neamtu Otonel
Boris Caragea
ilvia Colberti Fabini
Emil Eugen Stihi
Ilie Popovici
Gheorghe Lupascu
Radu Niculescu-Cociu
Liviu Ghogort
Augustin Alexa
Immanuel Weissglass
Ion Niculescu Bruma
Gheorghe Ivancenco
Rodica Sutu
Alexandru Hasegan
Mihai Zirra

... TO BE CONTINUED !!!!

Other famous romanians who were cremated (II):

Here are other famous romanians who were cremated:

Dumitru Bagdasar
Florica Bagdasar
Gheorghe Spacu
Simion Iagnov
Mihai Popper
Simion Iagnov
Goerge Oprescu
Martin Bercovici
Marioara Voiculescu *I don't know for sure...
Nina Facon
Mihu Dragomir
Leonard Mociulschi
Harry Brauner
Ilie Badica
Gheorghe Ursu
Dumitru Cismaru
Ecaterina Cristescu Delighioz
Stefan Arsene
Vasile Vasiliu Flati
Gheorghe Ionescu Sin
Elena Linta
Oscar Franche
Vornic Basarabeanu
Matei Calinescu

This list of the famous cremated romanians will be continued very soon... Stay here for this!