Alexandru Borza was a Romania

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n botanist, Greek-Catholic

Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic

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 monk and honorary protopop of Cluj.

As part of a group of professor

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s, physician

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s, soldier

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s, etc., he helped bring Scouting

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 to Romania.

In 1923, he founded the Cluj Botanical Garden

Cluj-Napoca Botanical Garden

The Cluj-Napoca Botanical Garden, officially Alexandru Borza Cluj-Napoca University Botanic Garden , is a botanical garden in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. It was founded in 1920 by Alexandru Borza....

, which now bears his name. The Retezat National Park

Retezat National Park

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, the first nature park of Romania, was founded in 1935 at his initiative.

Before World War II

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, he was the president of the General Association of the Uniate Romanians (AGRU), a Greek-Catholic association. For this, he was arrested in 1948, after the communists seized power in Romania.

Works

• Flora şi vegetaţia Văii Sebeşului, Editura Academiei, Bucharest 1959.
• Nicolae Boscaiu: Introducere în studiul covorului vegetal, Editura Academiei, Bucharest 1965.
• Dicţionar etnobotanic, Editura Academiei, Bucharest 1968.
• Amintirile turistice ale unui naturalist călător pe trei continente, Editura Sport-Turism, Bucharest 1987.

External links

• I. Resmeriţă: "Alexandru Borza: biolog român, ctitor al Grădinii Botanice din Cluj", Ed. Litera, Bucharest 1976.