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unusual facts about Eugen-Cristian Popescu



Archduke Eugen of Austria

Eugen received, probably with the intervention of Hermann Göring and other senior military figures, a rented house at Hietzing where he survived the Second World War.

Carl Röchling

Together with Georg Koch and Eugen Bracht a panorama of the Battle of Chattanooga is among his works.

Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg

Between 1751 and 1759 Karl Eugen was involved in an increasingly bitter struggle with his adviser, the eminent Liberal jurist Johann Jakob Moser who strongly opposed the Duke's absolutist tendencies.

Eugen Dieth

Eugen Dieth (November 18, 1893 in Neukirch an der Thur - Mai 24, 1956 in Zollikon) was a Swiss linguist, phonetician and dialectologist.

Eugen Dobrogeanu

Between 1943–1944 major Eugen Dobrogeanu was directly involved in the Operation Autonomous by order of general Constantin Tobescu, as a member of the military guard in charge with the custody of three English officers: Alfred Gardyne de Chastelain, Ivor Porter and Silviu Meţianu, parachutists taken and held captive in Romania.

Eugen Ferdinand von Homeyer

Eugen Ferdinand von Homeyer (11 November 1809 in Nerdin - 31 May 1889 in Stolp) was a German ornithologist.

Eugen von Homeyer wrote over 150 articles on birds and was the first describer of the Semi-collared Flycatcher and the Cyprus Wheatear.

Eugen Horniak

Eugen Horniak (August 28, 1926 in Ružindol – October 6, 2004 in Bratislava) was a Czechoslovak/Slovak basketball player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Eugen Kölbing

Eugen Kölbing (1846-1899) was a German philologist, a specialist in the study of Nordic, English, and French language and literature and comparative linguistics and literature.

Eugen Merzbacher

Eugen Merzbacher (born April 9, 1921 in Berlin, died June 6, 2013) was an American physicist.

Eugen Nae

Eugen Gheorghe Nae (born 23 November 1974 in Periș, Romania) is a Romanian former footballer.

Eugene Buechel

Eugene Buechel (Eugen Büchel), * October 20, 1874 in Schleida, now Schleid, in Thuringia, Germany, † October 27, 1954 in O'Neill, Nebraska, United States, was a Roman Catholic priest and missionary, linguist and anthropologist among the Brulé or Sicangu Lakota or Sioux on the Rosebud Indian Reservation and the related Oglala Lakota or Sioux on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

European Physical Journal

From the time of its creation in 1845, the Physical Society of Berlin (Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin) published Fortschritte der Physik and Verhandlungen, but by 1919, the Verhandlungen had become too voluminous, so a committee consisting of Albert Einstein, Eugen Goldstein, Fritz Haber, E. Jahnke, Karl Scheel, and Wilhelm Westphal was formed.

FF Groen

At the end of 1897, FF Groen retired and passed the company on to his son, Herman Fredrik Groen van Waarder, who operated the ships himself till they were sold in 1905 to the Hamburg shipping company Eugen Cellier.

Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Döll

Friedrich Wilhelm Eugen Döll (8 October 1750, Veilsdorf bei Hildburghausen - 30 March 1816, Gotha) was a German sculptor.

Gräfin Mariza

There are a number of film versions of the operetta, including : Gräfin Mariza (1932), directed by Richard Oswald with Dorothea Wieck and Hubert Marischka; Gräfin Mariza (1958), directed by Rudolf Schündler with Christine Görner and Rudolf Schock; Gräfin Mariza (1974), directed by Eugen York with Ljuba Welitsch and René Kollo.

Horaţiu Pungea

Horaţiu Eugen Pungea (born 18 February 1986, Luduș, (Mureş), Romania) is a Romanian rugby union footballer.

Ilka Pálmay

She was married twice, first to actor-manager József Szigligeti (from 1877 to 1886), and then to Austrian Count Eugen Kinsky in the early 1890s, who maintained an estate at Althofen in Carinthia.

Italian language in Croatia

Ethnologue reported 70,000 persons whose first language is Italian or Venetian in 1998 (referring to Eugen Marinov's 1998 data).

Ivan Padovec

Ivan Eugen Padovec (1800 – 1873), commonly known as Johann (Ivan) Padowetz (see the signature on the photo), born in the baroque town of Varaždin in Croatia (known for its festivals of baroque music) was a guitar virtuoso, who gave concerts in Zagreb, Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Hamburg, London, in Poland, Russia etc.

John Joseph Frederick Otto Zardetti

Otto Zardetti was born in Rorschach, Switzerland, to Eugen Zardetti and his wife Annette Anna, born von Bayer, an upper-middle-class family who dealt incanvas and colonial goods.

Mihai Măniuţiu

Co-authors: Michael Billington, Georges Banu, Michael Coveney, Marina Constantinescu, Mircea Ghitulescu, Dan Haulica, Nicolae Manolescu, Dan C. Mihailescu, Eugen Negrici, Cipriana Petre, Marian Popescu, Miruna Runcan, Victor Scoradet, Antoaneta Tanasescu, Ion Vartic, Irving Wardle.

Peter Croton

He began his lute studies with Loris Chobanian at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and continued with Eugen Müller-Dombois and Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.

Philip Francis, Prince of Leyen

Karl Eugen Damian Erwein (Wiesentheid 3 Apr 1798 – Waal 17 May 1879), who succeeded his father as Fürst von der Leyen und zu Hohengeroldseck.

Prince Eugen Medal

The medal is awarded every year on 5 November, the name day of Eugen.

Prince Eugen of Bavaria

Prince Eugen of Bavaria died on 1 January 1997 at Grasse in the Alpes-Maritimes region of France.

Prince Eugen of Schaumburg-Lippe

Prince Eugen of Schaumburg-Lippe full German name: Wilhelm Eugen Georg Friedrich August Albrecht zu Schaumburg-Lippe (8 August 1899, in Hannover, Germany – 7 November 1929, in Caterham, Surrey) was a son of Prince Maximilian August Jaroslav Adalbert Hermann of Schaumburg-Lippe (1871–1904) and Princess Olga Alexandra Marie of Württemberg (1876–1932).

Prince Eugen of Schaumburg-Lippe died unmarried at age 30 at Caterham.

Prince Frederick Henry Eugen of Anhalt-Dessau

Frederick Henry Eugen of Anhalt-Dessau (b. Dessau, 27 December 1705 - d. Dessau, 2 March 1781), was a German prince of the House of Ascania from the Anhalt-Dessau branch.

Prince Robin of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg

Prince Robin Alexander Wolfgang Udo Eugen Wilhelm Gottfried of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (born 29 January 1938 in Gießen, Germany) is the son of Gustav Albrecht, 5th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and his wife, Franco-Swedish noblewoman Margareta Fouché d'Otrante.

Robert Barto

The recipient of a Fulbright scholarship, he continued his studies in Cologne, Germany and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland, with Michael Schäffer and Eugen Müller-Dombois, respectively.

Robert Gaupp

Robert Eugen Gaupp (October 3, 1870 – August 30, 1953) was a German psychiatrist and neurologist who was a native of Neuenbürg, Württemberg.

Ştefan Vasilache

This ranks him fourth among Romanian high jumpers, behind Sorin Matei, Eugen-Cristian Popescu and Constantin Militaru.

Wilhelm Eugen Ludwig Ferdinand von Rohr

Wilhelm Eugen Ludwig Ferdinand von Rohr (17 May 1783, in Brandenburg an der Havel – 15 March 1851, in Glogau) was a Prussian general and minister of war.


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