Pan Halippa

Pantelimon "Pan" Halippa ( – 30 April 1979) was a Bessarabian-born Romanian journalist and politician. A leading advocate of Romanian nationalism in Bessarabia and a key figure in the movement for the province’s union with Romania, he served as president of , the assembly that voted for union in 1918. Halippa later held ministerial posts in several Romanian governments before facing political persecution under the communist regime and imprisonment in Sighet Prison.

Biography 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.

Married to the teacher Eleonora Circău, he had one son. His Chișinău home is preserved as a monument today.

Education Pan Halippa 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, because he was a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party. he was handed over to the MGB, taken to Chișinău, tried and sentenced to 25 years' hard labour in Siberia. Brought back to Romania, he was held at Aiud until 1957.

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

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Works Halippa wrote over 280 poems, articles, sketches, translations and memorials, managing to edit a single volume of poetry during his lifetime: Flori de pârloagă ("Flowers of a Fallow Field", 1921, Iași), prefaced by Mihail Sadoveanu. He also wrote a few historical studies: Bessarabiâ do prisoedineniâ k Rossii ("Besarabia before Annexation to Russia") (Russian, 1914); Basarabia sub împăratul Aleksandr I (1812–1825) ("Bessarabia under Emperor Aleksandr I"), B. P. Hasdeu (1939). Posthumous works include Povestea vieții mele ("The Story of My Life", Patrimoniu, Chișinău, 1990) and a volume of newspaper writings (2001). He also collaborated on the work Testament pentru urmași ("Last Will", 1991).