Histories of the University of Iași: historiographical reflections
Histories of the University of Iași: historiographical reflections

Summary/Abstract: Every intellectual institution has resorted regularly to some forms of retrospective reflection, meant to justify its position in society. The University of Iași was reserved, shortly after its inauguration, the privilege of illustrating, eloquently, the institutional modernization path that the Romanian society took in the mid nineteenth century. This perspective was and remained deeply attached to all attempts of historiographic recovering imposed by various anniversary moments. On all these occasions, the past had to be conceived so as to illustrate an aspiration and a necessity, despite that the relationship between these two perspectives did not raise, except for some specific approaches, a critical analysis of the founding act 153 years ago.

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