Badea Cârțan [SEP] place of death
meeting of the International Congress of Orientalists, he laid a wreath at the column's base.
Cârțan also visited France, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Egypt and Jerusalem.
He was buried in Sinaia, on soil belonging to independent Romania (Transylvania still being seven years away from its post-World War I union with Romania); on the stone cross atop his grave is inscribed the phrase: ""Aici doarme Badea Cârțan visând întregirea neamului său"" ("Here lies Badea Cârțan dreaming of
Badea Cârțan
Badea Cârțan (roughly: "Brother Cârțan" – the common nickname of Gheorghe Cârțan; 24 January 1849 – 7 August 1911) was a self-taught ethnic Romanian shepherd who fought for the independence of the Romanians of Transylvania (then under Hungarian rule inside Austria-Hungary), distributing Romanian-language books that he secretly brought from Romania to their villages. In all he smuggled some 200,000 books for pupils, priests, teachers and peasants; he used several routes to pass through the Făgăraş Mountains.