Ghibu’s Days are marked more modestly this year

The 17th edition of the Ghibu Days is marked more modestly this year. The events dedicated to the 126th anniversary since brilliant scholar, pedagogue and militant Onisifor Ghibu was born, started on Monday, May 25, in Chisinau, Info-Prim Neo reports. In the morning, flowers were laid in honor of these great personalities of the Romanian culture at the commemorative stele “Onisifor and Octavian Ghibu” from the capital and then, a series of cultural-scientific events were organized at the Public Library “Onisifor Ghibu.“ Book shows “Onisifor Ghibu – pedagogue and theoretician of education” and “The identity card of the Moldavian Country” were inaugurated. The scientific symposium “The formation and development of the Moldovan state. Myth and reality,” organized in partnership with the Association of Historians from Moldova, has also been unfolded. On May 26, the novel of the Basarabian playwright Dumitru Crudu will be publicly read within the project “Chisinau reads a book,” and on May 29, a painting exhibition of Moldovan young artists will be varnished. This year, the event organized annually with the support of the Cultural Fund “Onisifor and Octavian Ghibu” is more modest. “Unfortunately, Ghibu’s Days could not be organized on their deserved level this year. Our colleagues from Bucharest could not come because of the customs regime,” the manageress of the Public Library “Onisifor Ghimpu”, Elena Vulpe, stated at the opening of the event. The library has received a message from Mihai Ghibu, Onisifor Ghibu’s son, in which he quotes the words of the great pedagogue pronounced in hard times of history: “Believe, fight, be joint and you will win!.” “It is a present-day message because we have come to hard days again. It is an appeal to solidarity,” Elena Vulpe specified. “Onisifor Ghibu continues to be a model, a guide not only for us, but also for the generations to come because he has always defended the dignity and honor of the Romanian people. His rich biography, included in dozens of volumes and hundreds of articles, mirrors topics of philosophy, sociology, memoirs, history, culture, religion – all come to prove an exceptional personality, who, besides all these, found his duty to serve his people, to honor the truth,” the manageress added. Onisifor Ghibu (born on May 31, 1883 in Saliste commune, Sibiu county, died on October 3, 1972 in Cluj) was a Romanian teacher of pedagogy, a member of the Romanian Academy and a politician. He was one of the great personalities who contributed to the 1918 Union, a patriot with an important role in the national revival movement from Basarabia in 1917-1918. He put the basis of education in Basarabia, he brought here much Romanian books, he opened printing houses, he founded newspapers and magazines, he wrote primers, he opened cultural houses, he trained teachers. Before he died, Onisfor Ghibu asked his body to be wracked in Romanian's tricolor flag and to set clay from his loved land of Basarabia to his grave. He also asked his sons to open a library of Romanian books in Moldova. Onisifor Ghibu‘s wrote over 100 works.