Un memoriu inedit din arhiva istoricului Ioan Dimitrie Suciu
An Unpublished Memorandum from the Archive of Historian Ioan Dimitrie Suciu

Summary/Abstract: Ioan Dimitrie Suciu (1917–1982) was born in Lugoj and grew up in the context of early losses, becoming an orphan of both parents by the age of 11. After finishing high school, he attended the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy at the University of Bucharest, publishing his first works on the history of Banat in newspapers and magazines. Recognized by Nicolae Iorga for his translation of a poem by the ruler Petru Cercel, he continued his historical research, being particularly interested in the study of literature and history from Banat, a region that did not benefit from a well-structured academic framework at the time. In 1940, Suciu published an important work on Banat literature, and a year later, he defended his bachelor’s thesis on the military role of Transylvanian Romanians in the Hungarian state. He became the assistant of professor C.C. Giurescu and worked on a monograph about Nicolae Tincu Velia, a thesis with which he obtained his doctorate in 1943. His career continued at the Institute of National History and the Ministry of Culture. Besides his academic work, Suciu demonstrated an anti-fascist stance and advocated for various cultural and social causes, including the establishment of a university in Banat. The document reproduced here was identified in the family archive of historian I. D. Suciu and dates back to summer of 1945, shortly after the end of the World War II, when Romanian intellectuals still expressed optimism about the country’s future. It is a memorandum submitted to the Romanian Government, in which the historian presents arguments regarding the necessity of establishing a higher education institution with a humanistic profile in Timişoara.

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