Gheorghe Săulescu şi Mihail Kogălniceanu. Două repere, două vârste în istoriografia paşoptistă
Gheorghe Săulescu and Mihail Kogălniceanu. Two Landmarks, Two Ages in the Historiography of the Revolution of 1848

Summary/Abstract: Within a short interval of about 15 years, between 1829 and 1845, there were only a few writings that proved some interest in the past. Over two generations of teachers, the concepts and methodology of historiographical writing had known a dynamic which would have been hard to foresee when the first public school system were established. Distancing itself from the mirage of mythology, from the nominalizations of chronology, the history of the Romanians gained an identity of its own. In their pleas in favour of this cause, Florian Aaron and Mihail Kogălniceanu supported authentic research of old documents, which led to a change in the configuration of the pretended scientific nature of this subject matter. Both contributions made the status of history credible in the Romanian culture and gave it the right to bring in the necessary arguments for the support of the national cause.

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