Nicolae Giosan

Nicolae Giosan (December 30, 1921 – July 31, 1990) was a Romanian agricultural engineer and communist politician.

Biography Origins and scientific career Born in Drâmbar, Alba County, his parents Ioachim and Maria were peasants who owned six hectares of land. They had three other children who remained on the land. Despite material difficulties, Nicolae was a top student throughout his academic career. Following primary school in his native village from 1927 to 1932, he attended Mihai Viteazul High School in Alba Iulia from 1932 to 1940. Then, from 1940 to 1945, Giosan studied at the Cluj Agronomy Faculty, temporarily relocated to Timișoara due to the Second Vienna Award. In 1952, he earned a doctorate from the Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy.

Party politics

Although uninterested in politics as a student, Giosan joined a union in 1946. Motivated to support collectivization by the experience of his poor, hard-working parents, he died some seven months later at Jilava Prison. According to the testimony of two fellow prisoners, Giosan was murdered via lethal injection administered by a mysterious doctor.