Artist

Lucia Apolzan

1911–2001

Lucia Apolzan was an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at "Dimitrie Gusti" National Village Museum.

Lucia Florica Apolzan was a Romanian anthropologist, educator, ethnologist, geographer, folklorist, memorialist, educator, poet, and sociologist, an interdisciplinary researcher of the Romanian hill and mountain village, of the ancestral civilization on the territory of Romania, as well as of its uninterrupted continuity in the territories where the Romanian language is spoken. She was considered the right-hand collaborator of sociologist Dimitrie Gusti, but with her own distinct personality. Called by many the Lady of the Carpathians, Apolzan was a thorough and tenacious researcher of the Romanian village.

Collections represented

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