Rapoltu Mare
Encyclopedia
Rapoltu Mare is a commune in Hunedoara County
, Romania
. It is composed of five villages: Bobâlna, Boiu, Folt, Rapoltu Mare and Rapolţel.
The noble hungarian
family Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt takes the name of this village since the middle-age. Its most famous member is the scientist Albert Szent-Györgyi
.
Hunedoara County
Hunedoara is a county of Romania, in Transylvania, with its capital city at Deva.-Demographics:In 2002, it had a population of 485,712 and the population density was 69/km².*Romanians - 92%*Hungarians - 5%*Romas - 2%*Germans under 1%....
, Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
. It is composed of five villages: Bobâlna, Boiu, Folt, Rapoltu Mare and Rapolţel.
The noble hungarian
Nobility in the Kingdom of Hungary
The origin of the nobility in the Kingdom of Hungary can be traced to the Magyar conquest of Pannonia in the 9th century, and it developed over the course of the Middle Ages...
family Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt takes the name of this village since the middle-age. Its most famous member is the scientist Albert Szent-Györgyi
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Albert Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt was a Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with discovering vitamin C and the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle...
.