Consideraţii privind viaţa şi activitatea unei mari personalităţi a Banatului: Cornel Corneanu (1884-1960)
Considerations regarding the life and activity of a great personality of the Banat: Cornel Corneanu (1884-1960)

Summary/Abstract: Cornel Corneanu lived between 1884 and 1960; he was an important and illustrative personality of the Romanian Orthodox intellectuality in the Banat by the end of the 19th century and during the first half of the 20th century. With a very intellectual grounding at the Faculty of Theology, Chernivtsi University, he was the president of the Student Society Junimea, actually the most important association of the Romanian students in the capital of Bukovina. He came back in the Banat once graduating and began his career within the administrative section of Caransebeș diocese. Corneanu had been involved yet as a student in cultural and social works, including lots of charitable initiatives. The distinguished schoolar took also part in the Great Union Assembly, in Alba-Julia on the 1st of December 1918. As a member of the National Liberal Party he was directly involved in interwar period in the political life. Member of the Romanian Parliament, Cornel Corneanu was also a sustainer of the Romanian Orthodox Brotherhood, the Romanian intellectuals’ organization in Transylvania and the Banat.

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