Nicolae Giosan

Nicolae Giosan (1921 to 1990) was a Romanian agricultural engineer and communist politician, born in Drâmbar, Alba County, to peasant parents. He studied at the Cluj Agronomy Faculty from 1940 to 1945 and took a doctorate at the Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy in 1952, the year he became professor of genetics and plant improvement. He was the first director of the maize cultivation research institute at Fundulea from 1957 to 1962, later headed the higher agricultural council, and in 1969 became president of the agricultural and forestry sciences academy, serving eight days that November as Minister of Agriculture and Forestry. He sat in the Great National Assembly for 32 years and presided over it from 1974 until the 1989 Revolution. He was arrested then and died in Jilava Prison in 1990.