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Dr. Alfred Ambrosi (1895–1974) completed the Stephan Ludwig Roth high school and then went to the front as an artilleryman in the First World War. After being wounded and gassed he read law at Cluj-Napoca and took his doctorate in 1921; he then deepened his knowledge of viticulture at the Agricultural University in Berlin and at the university of commerce. He worked for several years for Hugo Stinnes in Hamburg, then for the same employer in Romania. In 1927 he took over the estates at Crăciunel, where he farmed the vineyards by the most modern methods and became known for his range of wines and for his work in the cellar. The export of rootstocks brought him international recognition, especially through the «Ambrosi-special» selection and through papers at international viticultural congresses. In 1942 he became curator of the Evangelical Church in Mediaș, until his emigration to Germany. He died in Munich in 1974; his advertisements for Transylvanian wine appeared in the German press in 1967, 1971 and 1972.