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Nicolae Iorga și lupta sa pentru realizarea Marii Uniri
Nicolae Iorga and his struggle for the achievement of the Great Union

Author(s): Laurențiu Chiriac
Subject(s): Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Editura Mega Print SRL
Keywords: Nicolae Iorga; Great Union; 1918; parliamentary speeches; historical books;

Summary/Abstract: Through his life and activity, Nicolae Iorga represents a bright gift that Moldova has made to Romanian culture and spirituality. He was an authority in the epoch and was the providential man of his time. He was a Romanian encyclopaedist, memorialist, researcher, university professor and academician, literary critic, playwright, poet, prime minister, minister and MP. The scholar had an important role in the political and cultural life of the country, his activism stemming from the social and moral mission that he believed to have – to achieve the unity of the Romanian people. As a professor of history at the University of Bucharest, editor-in-chief of patriotic magazines – such as „The Sower” and „The Romanian People”, leader of the National-Democratic Party, Nicolae Iorga militated for the realization of the Romanian national state, contributed by his position, by his attitude towards the fate of the Romanian brothers from Bessarabia, Bucovina, Cadrilater, Banat, Crişana, Maramureş and Transylvania. The great historian and scholar Nicolae Iorga, being aware of the historic necessity of uniting all Romanians in one national state, was the decisive man of the moment, who exercised a powerful influence on the whole Romanian nation.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 67-78
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian