PE URMELE GENERAŢIEI MARII UNIRI. DR. LAZĂR NICHI (1884–1953) – DIRECTOR AL PALATULUI CULTURAL ARAD. REPERE BIOGRAFICE
ON THE TRAIL OF THE GENERATION OF THE GREAT UNION. DR. LAZĂR NICHI (1884-1953) – DIRECTOR OF ARAD CULTURAL PALACE. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Summary/Abstract: A noteworthy personality of the generation of Great Union of 1918, a witness of Austro-Hungarian Empire death and of rising of Greater Romania, dr. Lazăr Nichi was a visionary, a strong personality to whom the Providence destined to lead Arad Cultural Palace for 23 years. He made his contribution to his people wy his entire activity as a teacher in prestigious teaching institutions in Arad, and as a director of the Cultural Palace. Lazăr Nichi was born on the 20th of July, in the family of shoemaker Lazăr Nichi (1832-1910) and his wife Iuliana, born Munteanu (1848-1903), at Pâncota. As benefiting of some credits he followed the Faculty of Royal Magyar Sciences in Budapest, became so a teacher, and gained the title of doctor after. With the Great War, he interrupted his professional life, being enlisted and taking part in the battles at the Adriatic Sea. In the agitated period of 1918-1919, he was a member of the General Staff of the Romanian National Guards, at the disposal of the Central Romanian National Council Arad. For his professional standards and abnegation he was appointed as the Cultural Palace director (1921-1944). Dr. Lazăr Nichi inaugurated a policy of the “cultural dissemination” using all the means of the time to enrich the Romanian cultural heritage. He closed his eyes in 1953 and was buried in the cemetery “Eternitatea” (Eternity) in Arad. To recuperate the memory of the former director of the Cultural Palace stays for our duty, a duty of these who endeavor to bring to light a bit of life, a history, and the remembrance of a man who lived between an old empire and a new state, Romania. As all the ones of the generation of the Great Union, he was a literate of note, with a remarkable activity, and a visionary who set, at great pains and perseveringly, his whole career.

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