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Gheorghe Ghimpu | |
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.jpg) Ghimpu in 1992 | |
| Member of theMoldovan Parliament | |
| In office 10 March 1990 – 29 March 1994 | |
| Parliamentary group | Popular Front |
| Constituency | Criuleni |
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| Born | (1937-07-26)26 July 1937 |
| Died | 13 November 2000(2000-11-13) (aged 63) |
| Resting place | Chișinău |
| Citizenship |  Moldova Romania |
| Political party | New Historical Option (then known as Romanian National Party) |
| Other political affiliations | Popular Front of Moldova National Patriotic Front |
| Spouse | Zina Ghimpu |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Mihai Ghimpu (brother) Dorin Chirtoacă (nephew) |
| Alma mater | T. G. Shevchenko University Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union |
| Profession | Professor Physicist |
| Parents | Irina Ursu Toader Ghimpu |
Gheorghe Ghimpu (26 July 1937 – 13 November 2000) was aMoldovan politician and a political prisoner in the formerSoviet Union and then inMoldova.
Ghimpu was born on 26 July 1937 inColonița, a village inBessarabia during theGreater Romania administration. His mother, Irina Ursu (daughter of Haralambie Ursu, died in 2003) worked at the localkolkhoz (collective farm). His father, Toader Ghimpu (died in 1980) was an elementary school teacher. Gheorghe Ghimpu is the oldest brother ofSimion Ghimpu (born 24 May 1939), Visarion, Valentina (mother ofDorin Chirtoacă) andMihai Ghimpu.
Ghimpu completed his studies atT. G. Shevchenko University inTiraspol. Then he obtained his PhD at the Institute of Biological Physics,Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union inMoscow. Ghimpu was a teacher inStrășeni and a professor atT. G. Shevchenko University inTiraspol and theMoldova State University inChișinău.
He was married to Zina and had two children, Oana and Corneliu.
Between 1969 and 1971, he was a founder of the clandestineNational Patriotic Front of Bessarabia and North of Bukovina, established by several young intellectuals in Chişinău, totaling over 100 members, vowing to fight for the establishment of aMoldovan Democratic Republic, its secession from theSoviet Union and union withRomania. After the NPF leadership got in touch...In December 1971, following an informative note from Ion Stănescu, the President of the Council of State Security of theRomanian Socialist Republic, toYuri Andropov, the chief of theKGB, Ghimpu as well asAlexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr,Valeriu Graur, andAlexandru Șoltoianu were arrested and later sentenced to long prison terms. He was sentenced on 13 July 1972. Ghimpu spent six years in prison (1972–1978), as result of his political activities.
Ghimpu took part in the Moldovan national movement and was a supporter of the independence of theMoldovan SSR from the Soviet Union. He was a founding member of thePopular Front of Moldova and a member of theMoldovan Parliament (1990–1994).
He died inChișinău on 13 November 2000 after an unclarified traffic accident, which had occurred nearDondușeni on 27 October 2000.[1]
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