Pal Peter Hazmann, folk artist died

He died on Saturday in the seventy-ninth year of his life after a serious illness Pal Peter Hazman Folk artist and local historian, retired director of the Csernáton Village Museum in Háromszék – the online edition of Sepsiszentgyörgy Háromszék announced.

Pal Peter Hazman was born on August 12, 1942 in Alsocernaton. He graduated from the Agricultural High School in Kézdivásárhely and the Secondary School in Szászrégen. The first agricultural technician in Kahloum and Shashrine. Since 1971, he has worked as an employee at the Museum of Syndicate History in Targo Morris, and from 1973 until his retirement he has worked as director of the Pal Hazman Museum in Cernaton, a division of the Sekele National Museum. In 2008, he was also a Member of Parliament for the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (DAHR) for a short time, was also the founding president of the Pál Haszmann Association of Public Culture, and the founder and president of the Csernáton Folk High School in the museum.

In 2012 he was awarded the Balázs Orbán Prize, and in 2013 the Haszmann family was awarded the Hungarian Heritage Prize. In 2013, in recognition of his work, he was also awarded the Knight of the Hungarian Order of Merit. His funeral will take place at 4 pm in Cernate on Tuesday afternoon.