Constantin Cândea

Constantin Cândea
Professor Ph.D. Eng. Constantin Cândea
Born	(1887-12-15)December 15, 1887 Mărgineni, Bacău, Romania
Died	March 4, 1971(1971-03-04) (aged 83)
Resting place	Bellu cemetery Figure 4 44°24′14″N 26°05′59″E / 44.40381°N 26.099685°E / 44.40381; 26.099685
Residence	Romania
Nationality	Romanian
Fields	Chemistry
Institutions	Polytechnic University of Timișoara
Alma mater	Königlich Bayerische Technische Hochschule München
Known for	Organic chemistry and Analytical chemistry founder of the Chemistry Laboratory at the Polytechnic University of Timișoara (1921) Rector of Polytechnic University of Timișoara 1946-1947
Spouse	Maria (Antoniade) Cândea (1889-1974)

Constantin Cândea (Romanian pronunciation: [konstanˈtin ˈkəndea]); (December 15, 1887, Mărgineni, Bacău - March 4, 1971, Bucharest) was a Romanian chemist, Professor of Chemistry, Ph.D. Engineer at the Polytechnic University of Timișoara and Rector of Polytechnic University of Timișoara - formerly Polytechnic School of Timișoara between 1946-1947^[1]

Life

Constantin Cândea graduated from Prince Ferdinand High School in Bacău in 1907, and in 1911 from Königlich Bayerische Technische Hochschule München (now Technical University Munich).

He was married to Maria (Antoniade) Cândea (October 2, 1889, Galați - April, 16, 1974, Bucharest), teacher of French with higher education in France, who founded and led as headmistress the High School of Pedagogy for Girls ″Queen Marie″ (now National College ″Jean Monnet″) in Ploiești.^[2]

In the first year of activity of the Polytechnic School of Timișoara initiated by the Royal Decree No. 4822 of November 11, 1920 of King Ferdinand, Professor Ph.D. Eng. Constantin Cândea created the Chemistry Laboratory and Professor Ph.D. Eng. Constantin Stăncescu initiated the Physics Laboratory.^[3]

He was Corresponding Member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences since December 21, 1935 and Full Member since December 20, 1936.^[4]

He was Rector of The Polytechnic University of Timișoara - formerly Polytechnic School of Timișoara between 1946-1947.^[1]

He died at the age of 83 and was buried in the Bellu cemetery, figure 4, in Bucharest.

Work

Constantin Cândea has published numerous works, including:^[5][6]

• Separation of copper group metals (Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, vol.96, no.7, ISSN: 1618-2642 (Print) 1618-2650 (Online), pp. 276–276, 1934)
• Separation of the acidic sulfides of the other compounds of the sulphide precipitation (Fresenius Journal of Analytical Chemistry, vol.97, no.3, ISSN: 0937-0633 (Print) 1432-1130 (Online), pp. 118–118, 1934)
• Separation of the acidic sulfides of the other compounds of the sulphide precipitation (Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, vol.97, no.3-4, pp. 118–118, 1934)
• Lead (Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, vol.110, no.5, pp. 206–208, 1937)
• Qualitative analysis (Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, vol.108, no.9, pp. 340–345, 1939)
• Fuels and petroleum based fuels (Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, vol.118, no.5, pp. 208–222, 1939)
• Methane in connection with national defense ^[7] (Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of Romania No. 10, 1942)
• Condensation of oxibenzaldehyde and nitrobenzaldehyde with 2.7 dinitrofluorura (European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, vol.75, no.12, ISSN: 1434-1948 (print) 1099-0682 (Online), pp. 2017–2018, 1942)
• Organic nitrogen compounds (Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry), vol.125, no.1, pp. 48–57, 1943
• The reaction of methane with zinc chloride (Angewandte Chemie, vol.56, no. 35-36, ISSN 0044-8249 (Print) 1521-3757 (Online), pp. 247–248, 1943

External links

• (Romanian) Timișoara during soviet military occupation (Timișoara City Hall Monitor)
• (Romanian) Dr. Mircea Rusnac, Student protest movements of Timișoara before 1956 (Agero Magazine, Stuttgart, Germany)

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