Samoila Mârza was a Romanian photographer born in 1886 known for capturing the only photographs of the Great National Assembly in Alba Iulia on December 1st, 1918 which established the union of Transylvania with Romania. He was born to Romanian peasant parents and attended Greek-Catholic religious school and high school in Alba Iulia. Between 1909 and 1911, he apprenticed with photographer Iainek in Sibenik to study photography. After World War I, he photographed the sanctification of the first Romanian tricolor flag in November 1918. In early 1919, he published an album of photographs from the Assembly of Alba Iulia which was presented at the Versailles Peace Conference.

1. Samoilă Mârza
Samola Mârza (born September 18, 1886, Galtiu, Alba - December 19, 1967, Alba Iulia) was a
Romanian photographer, known especially for making the only photographic clichés that
surprised the Great National Assembly in Alba Iulia on 1 December 1918.
Mărzăa was born in a family of Romanian peasants from Galtiu, Sântimbru, Alba. His
mother, Ana, died young, leaving four children behind. The father, Stephen, later remarried
with a woman from the same village, Raveca, with whom she had six children.
Samoila Mârza followed the six
primary classes at the Romanian
(Greek-Catholic) Greek-Catholic
religious school in Galati, then
attended the high school in Alba
Iulia. After graduation from high
school, between 1909 and 1911,
he was sent by apprentice parents
to the Sibenian photographer
Iainek, where he studied
photography.
At the end of the war, Samoila Merza
was in Trieste, where she would go to
Vienna following the withdrawal of
Romanian troops organized by the
Central Romanian National Council.
Arrived on November 6, 1918, he
managed to execute three photographic
clichés that captured the sanctification of
the first tricolor flag of the Romanian
National Military Council (November
14, 1918), in the presence of General
Boeriu, Iuliu Maniu and the other
soldiers.
University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest , Romania
59 Mărăști Blvd , District 1 , 011464 , Bucharest , Romania
At the beginning of 1919 Samoila Mirza published her photographs in an album titled "The
Great Assembly of Alba Iulia in Faces", also mentioned in the newspaper "Alba Iulia" on
March 10th. The album was presented by the Romanian delegation and the Versailles Peace
Conference. Specimens were also sent to King Ferdinand I, Prime Minister Ion C. Bratianu, to
the President of the Conducting Council Iuliu Maniu, to the French General Henri Mathias
Berthelot and other personalities of the time.
Student:Claudiu Cristea, IMAPA-group 8113
Coordinating teacher : Mihai Daniel Frumușelu
REFERENCES:
https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoil%C4%83_M%C3%A2rza