Aurel Filimon - fondator al colecţiei de carte românească a Bibliotecii Municipale din Târgu-Mureş
Aurel Filimon - Founder of the Romanian Book Collection of the Târgu-Mureş Municipal Library

Summary/Abstract: Aurel Filimon is a complex personality of the interwars culture. He has activated as teacher, collaborator of the famous professor Al. Tzigara-Samurcaş and also as secretary of the Museum of National Art in Bucharest, archaeologist, curator, librarian and, finally, director of the Târgu-Mureş Municipal Library. After 1918, when he has set with his familly in Târgu-Mureş, he began to make steps for establishing a museum of archeology and ethnography and three years later, in 1921, after opening the museum, he was appointed its custodian. The opening of the Museum of Natural Sciences is also due to him. In 1922 he became librarian at the Târgu-Mureş Municipal Library, and, between 1936-1940 he was the director of this library. Aurel Filimon might be called „the father of the Romanian books” in the collections of local library. He has allways considered that Romanian books have a double role: first, they give to the minority elements the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the products of Romanian literary and scientific works and second, it refers to the chance offered to Romanians to get to know their culture better and to contribute to the development of our culture. He was interested in developing the library collections, especially the Romanian collections, and all his efforts have been made in this direction. He has used different ways of getting more books for the library: acquisitions, even on his own expenses, donations from individuals or institutions. If the Romanian books collection was quite small, around 3.000 volumes, at the moment he has started his activity as a librarian, after 1940, when he had to leave Târgu-Mureş because of political reasons, there were no less than 14.200 volumes, mostly achieved through donations.

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