În umbra fiului academician: Preotul Vincențiu Petrovici din Toracul Mic
In the Shadow of His Academic Son: Priest Vincențiu Petrovici from Toracul Mic

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the activity of priest Vincențiu (Vichentie) Petrovici from Toracul Mic, the father of the well-known scholar and academician Emil Petrovici. Although his activity was very important for the national, confessional, and economic life of Romanians in the Serbian Banat, it remained overshadowed by his son's achievements. Vincențiu Petrovici distinguished himself as a devoted servant of the altar in two parishes — Toracul Mare (for two years) and Toracul Mic — as well as in the cultural life of the Romanians in this part of Banat, as president of the Becicherecul Mare branch of Astra, as a political activist within the Romanian National Party, especially during the 1905 elections, and, not least, through his activities in the banking sector, as a member of the management of the Agricultural Credit and Savings Institutes of Ecica and Timișana in Timișoara, where for a period he also served as a member of the Supervisory Committee, and as head of the branch of this bank in Toracul Mic.

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