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<\/a>At 98 years of the Great Union in Romania can be found only three albums with photos documentary made on December 1, 1918 at the Grand National Assembly of Alba Iulia.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nThe only man who<\/span> immortalized the<\/span> event, Samoil\u0103 M\u00e2rza (1886-1967), has assembled<\/span> those historical<\/span> frames in an album titled Great Assembly of Alba Iulia in chips.<\/p>\n After the Union, he offered<\/span> copies of this album personalities including King Ferdinand, the Greek Catholic Bishop<\/span> Iuliu Hossu, Ionel Bratianu, Nicolae Iorga, Maniu and French General Henri<\/span> Berthelot.Drept gratitude, King accepted<\/span> among suppliers<\/span> of the Royal House<\/span>, and General<\/span> Berthelot<\/span> sent<\/span> a<\/span> free<\/span> travel pass<\/span> on the French railways.<\/span><\/p>\n About other precious copies of the album nobody knows nothing, says grandson<\/span> and biographer Samoil\u0103 M\u00e2rza, Aurel S\u00eentimbrean. He lives in Alba, in the village<\/span> S\u00e2ntimbru, of which the photographer and native village in 1918<\/span> – Galtiu.<\/span><\/span> Aged 84 years, Aurel S\u00eentimbrean confesses that his uncle has inspired him since childhood and subsequently f\u0103cuto his passion for life. He spent years studying official documents to reconstruct the history of Marza and in 2003 published a biography of the legendary character.<\/span> Also in<\/span> memory of<\/span> photographer<\/span> Aurel S\u00eentimbrean unveiled a bust<\/span> in<\/span> Galtiu<\/span>, Samoil\u0103 M\u00e2rza’s home village.<\/p>\n “Make a sketch to us!“<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n “We consider ourselves family. A mother’s brother was married to a sister of Samoil\u0103 M\u00e2rza.<\/p>\n When I met on the street, he said, ‘Grandson, you learn that your uncle, you get an engineer. “<\/p>\n Uncle who graduated unrelated Polytechnic in 1925. It was a great achievement then, “says Aurel S\u00eentimbrean. He says that before the war, being a photographer was very respected, as were writers or<\/span> painters<\/span>.<\/span>“<\/span> There were people<\/span> of means, seen in the city. Back then, Alba Iulia had only 15,000 inhabitants.<\/span> “<\/span><\/p>\n “Sunday after they exited the church, people were eating and resting. Then went out to the gate, women were roosters (popcorn – n.r.), and men drank one cup of wine.<\/p>\n I remember that when I was in first grade, came with a bicycle from Alba Iulia.<\/p>\n My mother was raised and said: “Welcome, sir Samoil\u0103. Let’s do a face! “. And he said to him: “Get in the yard and put the carpet fence!” – A carpet of one peasant.<\/span><\/p>\n And triggered the device. A week or two brought us the picture. Back then, it was a real film development work.<\/p>\n We look at the picture as an icon, it was something special. He was more free. He was a generous man and lived modestly, you can only imagine, “recalls Aurel S\u00eentimbrean. After high school, he made two years of apprenticeship photographer Iainek Sibiu and in 1914 was incorporated into the Austro-Hungarian army in the Service surveying and photography.<\/p>\n He was sent to the front in Galicia and came to Riga. 1916 found him in Italy, and after the war was at Trieste. During action to withdraw troops, arrived a period in Vienna. There, on November 14, 1918, he was able to execute the first three cliches photo sanctification tricolor flag of the Romanian<\/span> National Military Council – an event that was attended by Maniu.<\/span><\/p>\n Romanian National Council and President<\/span> of Drastic<\/span>, Dr.<\/span> Aurel Vlad. (Minister of Finance and then after the Union of Religious Affairs, Aurel<\/span> Vlad would die in the same year with Maniu, 1953 and still in prison in Sighet.)<\/span><\/p>\n Photographer in Galtiu was not allowed to enter the Union Hall, where there were 1,228 delegates.<\/span> Life on bike<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Samoil\u0103 M\u00e2rza has never been married. He had traveled all over Transylvania with his omnipresent camera caught trunk bicycles. During his life, captured a series of historical events, such as visiting the 1919 King Ferdinand in Alba Iulia, Abrud and C\u00e2mpeni, the crowning of King Ferdinand and Queen Maria in October 1922 celebrations commemorating 1924 – the celebration of 100 years the birth ui Avram Iancu, or celebrations of Alba Iulia 1928, 10 years after the Great Union.<\/p>\n<\/a>Today, the copy given by Iuliu Hossu is Greek-Catholic Diocese of Cluj<\/span>, and two<\/span> copies of Nicolae Iorga’s Maniu, is Romanian Academy Library, respectively,<\/span> at the National Archives<\/span>. The album is offered Nicolae Iorga Romanian Academy Library in Bucharest.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>In November this year, S\u00eentimbrean published a new biography of his uncle, entitled “Samoil\u0103 M\u00e2rza, 1886-1967. Photographer unification of Transylvania with Romania December 1, 1918, Alba Iulia”.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>Aurel S\u00eentimbrean remembers that it was M\u00e2rza first met in 1938, when he was 7. He had come to their house to take a family photo, and he was impressed by the machine bellows that capture images on glass plates.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>S\u00eentimbrean photographer remembers coming to the village was announced Sunday at mass. In Galtiu however, did not need any introduction.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>In the meantime, the device gave off the bike. It was very difficult. He put the tripod, pulled a black cloth on his head and said: “Arrange yourself, be careful and do not move!”.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n
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\n<\/span>Great Union phorographer by chance<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>Samoil\u0103 M\u00e2rza was born in 1886. He Galtiu six primary classes in high school and then at Alba Iulia.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>He came home four days before 1 December 1918, and participated in the organization of Galtiu delegation. In this context he made three pictures of villagers who were preparing to go to Alba Iulia.<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>Due to weather and technical limitations, Samoila Marza has made only six images in Alba Iulia, three of them show the crowd Plateau Romans and three – grandstand, I speak Greek Catholic Bishop of Gherla, Iuliu Hossu, Bishop Orthodox Caransebe\u015f, Miron Cristea (future patriarch)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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\nIncidentally, in those moments, M\u00e2rza not have known it was the only photographer participant in the Grand National Assembly which sanctioned the unification of Transylvania with Romania.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/a>Thereafter, its exterior photos, which capture groups of people carrying placards with the names of towns, were presented at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 as evidence of the democratic nature of the Great Union.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>A device as two oxen<\/span><\/strong>
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