Nicolae Iorga și Muzeul Militar Național „Regele Ferdinand I”
Nicolae Iorga and the “King Ferdinand I” National Military Museum

Summary/Abstract: This paper highlights some aspects regarding the role that the great Romanian historian Nicolae Iorga played in the establishment of the National Military Museum, as well as his connections with this institution, taking into account that he was an honorary member of the board of directors during 1931-1938. At the same time, it briefly presents a rich documentary collection in the patrimony of this museum, containing letters addressed to the great historian by personalities of the academic world of the time or by various collaborators, including: French linguist August Émile Picot – former private secretary of King Carol I and member of the Romanian Academy, Charles Alfred Kohler – Swiss palaeographer and archivist, naturalized in France, German philologist Gustav Weigand – author of the first Romanian linguistic atlas, French medieval historian Charles-Victor Langlois, professor at the Sorbonne, Robert Ulysse – palaeographic archivist at the National Library of France, the well-known Byzantinologist Al. Vasiliev, the French historian and palaeographer Auguste Molinier, the Italian historian and archivist Riccardo Predelli, Dino Muratore, PhD in letters, professor in Turin, professor and publicist Henry Lolliot, close to Spiru Haret, etc.

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