Gheorghe Dunka House

GHEORGHE DUNKA HOUSE Gheorghe Dunka (1867 – 1944), was an engineer and architect with studies in Zürich and Stuttgart, with specializations in Belgium and France. He worked as an engineer at the Romanian Railways and worked with Anghel Saligny on the inspection of the bridge built by him over the Danube. He was a member of the National Liberal Party, former prefect of Buzău (1914-1919), senator and deputy, vice-president of the Senate. He led the local organization of National Liberal party, the Georgist wing (led by Gheorghe Brătianu since 1925). He was the son of General Iulius Dunka, who commanded the artillery of the 4th Infantry Division, the 1st Army Corps and the Western Corps in the 1877-1878 campaign. His uncle, engineer Titus Al. Dunka participated in the construction of the Suez Canal, was part of Giuseppe Garibaldi’s army, participated with the French troops in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1971) and the War of Independence (1877-1878), with 1st Dorobanti Regiment. Gheorghe Dunka, reserve officer, took part in the Bulgarian Campaign, in 1913, as head of the ammunition column of the 7th Buzău Artillery Regiment and in the War of National Integration (1916 – 1919), as a commissar of the Romanian government in addition to Russian army. He died in 1944 and he was buried in Bellu Cemetery of Bucharest. Today, in the house where the Dunka family lived in Buzău, the Oncology Department of the Buzău County Hospital carries out its activity.