Dictionar Biografic
Biographical Dictionary

Summary/Abstract: Ernest Bernea was a great ethnologist and a profoundly Christian philosopher. This short biography places emphasis on his opposition to dictatorial regimes. Accused of Legionarism, he was imprisoned by king Carol II. After a short university career he was purged from the education system and arrested in 1948, going through the abominable prison circuit until 1962, when he moved from the little to the large prison, continuing his suffering up to the fall of the communist system in 1989. Miron Constantinescu was a professional sociologist, joined the Communist Party of Romania because he believed in it, at a time when the party was illegal in 1936, and he continued his career as a sociologist. After the establishment of communism in Romania, he was promoted editor-in-chief at Scânteia, then head of the development plans for the communist economy; he became vice-president of the Council of Ministers and chairman of the Grand National Assembly. He was removed from his leadership positions in 1957. Mihai Lascar fought as a lieutenant in the Balkan wars, then in World War I, he made major and later became a professor at the High Academy of War. In World War II he was the commander of the 11th Mountain Brigade, fighting in Bukovina, Crimea and then at Stalingrad, where he was taken prisoner and embraced communist values. He returned to Romania leading the procommunist Tudor Vladimirescu division. He was retired in 1950, interrogated and pursued continuously until his death.

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