O viață închinată comunității − Josef Bacon, întemeietorul Muzeului de Istorie Sighișoara
A life for the community – Josef Bacon, the founder of the Sighișoara History Museum

Summary/Abstract: The History Museum of Sighișoara celebrated 120 years of existence. On this occasion we try to evoke the personality of the founder of the institution, Dr. Josef Bacon. Coming from a family of Austrian officials arrived in the eighteenth century in the city on the Târnava Mare River, at the beginning of the twentieth century he was fully affianced to the Sighișorara elite. Professional physician, civil servant, with a rich activity in public work, with a unrelenting activity in improving public hygiene, he was active serving the community as a curator of the Evangelical Church, as founder of the baths in Vlăhița/Szent-Kerestbanya/Karlshütte, in the Harghita Mountains. He was also professionally involved in the eradication of tuberculosis and especially of alcoholism, by being member of the Order of the Good Templars. Last but not least, he became the founder of the local History Museum, succeeding in 42 years of activity to gather most of the institution's current heritage, to exhibit it and to show it in accordance with the museological norms of its era, managing to illustrate the secular history of the old medieval town upon the Târnava Mare River. He guided the visitors personally,regardless of their nationality or their educational degree, and he received no payment, for all his activity, which today seems inconceivable.

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