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(Cimetière de Saint-Georges)

Aurel Constantin Popovici

Lugoj, Transylvania 1863 - Genève 1917
Ethnic Romanian Austro-Hungarian lawyer and politician; proposed the federalization of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy into the so-called United States of Greater Austria (1906)
(Wikipedia)

Ina Popescu
1977

Description

Bronze statue of Popovice with in his hand a book lex europae.

Inscription(s)

Granite plate and two metal plates:

a la memoire de
AUREL CONSTANTIN POPOVICI
premier federaliste europeen du xxe siecle
1863 lugoj (roumanie) - geneve 1917

découvert le 19 . 6 . 1977
par s.a.r.i. otto de habsbourg
président de l'union paneuropéenne

érige par la
FONDATION EUROPEENE DRAGAN
rome

Signed: Ina Popescu Timisoara Romania

Annotation

Unveiled on 19 June 1977 by H.R.H. Otto of Habsburg, president of the Pan European Union.

Sculptor

Ina Popescu, Romanian sculptor from Timișoara.

Sources & Information

Dragan European Foundation, Popovici Aurel C.

Location (N 46°11'57" - E 6°7'0")

Item Code: chge052; Photograph: 6 June 2013
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