Frații Buzești High School
| Fraţii Buzeşti National College | |
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| Location | |
| Craiova, Romania | |
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| Type | public |
| Motto | Fiat Lux |
| Established | 1882 |
| Headmaster | Prof. Zamfirică Petrescu |
| Enrollment | 1,900 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | http://www.cnfb.ro/ |
The Fraţii Buzeşti National College (Romanian: Colegiul Național "Fraţii Buzeşti" (CNFB) din Craiova) is a high school located in central Craiova, Romania, on Ştirbei Vodă Street. It is one of the most prestigious secondary education institutions in Romania.
The high school was named after three loyal noblemen, the Buzeşti brothers, Preda, Radu and Stroe Buzescu, who were the inseparable, strongest military supporters of voivode Michael the Brave; their noble blood line goes back to 1461 AD. Between 1590 and 1600 they fought valiantly, numerous times in the army of the Christian Prince Michael the Brave against the Ottoman Turks.
As a high school it was formally established in 1882 as "Gimnaziul Real" by an edict of "Ministerul Cultelor" (approved by minister P.S.Aurelian of the Ministry of Culture of Romania, at that time), with a predominantly science teaching for boys. The gymnasium motto consists of the two Latin words from the beginning of the Book of Genesis: "Fiat Lux" --"Let There Be Light!".
The first director of the gymnasium was Mathematics Professor Grigore Căzănescu who provided leadership and guidance to both students and professors at the gymnasium. At its opening on November 1, 1882, the gynmnasium had 62 students enrolled in the first grade; interestingly, it opened in the large classroom of the gymnasium for boys in the building that is now "Colegiul Național Carol I", and its first language teachers were Ștefan Rudeanu for the French and Ferdinand Settelin for the German. By 1898 there were 184 alumni of the gymnasium, but the school did not have its own building until 1930. On January 9, 1910, however, Spiru Haret—then Minister of Education and Culture ("Ministerul Instrucțiunii și Cultelor")-- announced that he approved the gymnasium to be called by the name of "Frații Buzești". At that time, one of its best known teachers was Nicolae Bănescu, professor of history and French language, who became VicePresident of the Romanian Academy. Its study programme was quite strict and severe, and had as many as 34 hours of study per week; it continued much in the same vein even in the early 1960s. By 1961 it also included compulsory, practical training in Electrotechnics engineering at the local works of "ElectroPower" factory for manufacturing electrical train Diesels, with all graduating students receiving certificates for building electrical motors and generators. The school's two rigidly disciplinarian teachers in the 1960s were Sică-Anastasie Petrescu for Mathematics, and Teodoreanu—an elderly Russian Bessarabean—for Physics.
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