Etti-Rosa Spirer
Illustration — The Bălți Prefecture after its expansion by Rosalia Spirer • Illustration — Sfatul Țării Palace Rosalia Spirer, also Etti-Rosa Spirer (16 April 1900 – 30 March 1990), was a Romanian-born Soviet Moldavian architect. Her father, Ludwig, was an estate manager while her mother, a housewife, instructed her in needlework. After completing high school, she studied architecture at the Bucharest Superior School of Architecture, graduating in 1925.
Also recorded as Rosalia Spirer
Etti-Rosa Spirer
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- Born
- 1900 · Galați.
- Died
- 1990 · Chișinău.
- Nationality
- Romania · Soviet Union
- Occupation
- architect
- Education
- Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urban Planning
- Known for
- Casa Bodescu · Historic buildings of Alecu Russo State University of Bălți · Sfatul Țării Palace
- Languages
- Romanian
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Illustration — The Bălți Prefecture after its expansion by Rosalia Spirer • Illustration — Sfatul Țării Palace Rosalia Spirer, also Etti-Rosa Spirer (16 April 1900 – 30 March 1990), was a Romanian-born Soviet Moldavian architect. Her father, Ludwig, was an estate manager while her mother, a housewife, instructed her in needlework. After completing high school, she studied architecture at the Bucharest Superior School of Architecture, graduating in 1925.
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1900
Etti-Rosa Spirer was born in 1900 at Galați.
1990
Etti-Rosa Spirer died in 1990 at Chișinău.
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In 1932, she moved to Bălți, in the Bessarabia province of what had become Greater Romania. There, as the only trained architect, she oversaw architectural planning, including expansion of the prefecture building. During the Second World War, she worked on a farm in the Saratov region, although she spoke no Russian. In 1944, she returned to Bessarabia, much of which was now part of the Moldavian SSR within the Soviet Union. She went on to design multi-storey residential buildings. Spirer remained in good health until the end. She died on 30 March 1990, at age 89.
Etti-Rosa Spirer studied at Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urban Planning. The recorded working language is Romanian. Works named in the authority record are Casa Bodescu, Historic buildings of Alecu Russo State University of Bălți and Sfatul Țării Palace.
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