Iulius POPA - Biblioteca Ştiinţifică a Universităţii de Stat

SUA), a semnat peste 400 de articole, a adunat un tezaur care cu
destoinic ie se poate înscrie în proiec tul naţio nal Memoria
Moldovei şi Cartea Moldovei.
Sperăm că ac eastă Biobib liografie transmite şi mesaju l
nostru de admiraţie, afecţiune şi resp ec t p entru pro tag on istu l ei.
Elena HARCONIŢA,
Directorul Bibliotecii Ş tiin ţifice
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Refined areas of Iuluis Popa
It is w ell-known that some plac es are popular thanks to
the people who attach their names and lives to them. It is the fact
that Iulius Popa lives in Bă lţi made this town know n after 1996.
Iulius Popa is a famous eminescolog, great collec tor of medals
and c oins w ith the appearanc e of the outstanding poet, Mihai
Eminescu, engraved on them. He is also considered to be the
initiator or the creator of one set of rare medals “Integral
Eminescu” in the Museum of History (Romania), in the Memorial
House (Ipoteşti). The ex-president of Romania Ion Iliescu, the
amb assadors o f fo reign c oun tries in Mo ld ov a, many in stitu tion s
and private people bec ame the owners of these values.
In the “Calendarul Naţional 2005” it is mentioned: 55 years since
the birth of Iulius Popa, a journalist and bibliophile April 30,
1950).
The present bibliographic al work (the first one of the
collection “Bălţi Un iv ersity Writers ”) do es no t tend to desc rib e
Iulius Popa entirely, it enriches the reader’s knowledge about our
contemporary, who by the age of 55 had managed to do more
things than any man has ever done in a c entury.
“It is wrong to affirm that people are the constituting
element of a nation, not the soul, but the people who leave
indelib le traces during their lives, they leave works that the
History of Civilisation can glorify, the people who being either
triumphant or vanquished strived for an idea…” Ion Ghica). The
above statement can be attributed to Iulius Popa. Of his own
in itiative and insistenc e a set of medals appeared, fact that has