The Geographer Marius Mihai Bizerea (1916–1980)
The Geographer Marius Mihai Bizerea (1916–1980)

Summary/Abstract: Geographer Marius Mihai Bizerea was an outstanding representative of the Cluj School of Geography. Coming from a family with old and beautiful Romanian cultural traditions from Carasoveni County, he studied law at the University of Bucharest and Geography-History at King Ferdinand I University of Cluj. During this time, he was passionate about sociology, and he undertook sociological research campaigns in Banat settlements (1935–1938) and, as a geography student, in Transnistria (1942). He was drafted and fought on the Eastern Front where, in September 1944, he was captured, deported, and imprisoned in USSR camps. Released in 1946, he successfully defended his bachelor’s degree in geography and history and, due to his training, he was appointed to teach at the Geographic Institute of the University of Cluj, where he worked for only one year (1946–1947), being “compressed,” i.e., purged from the University, in the fall of 1947. After a long period (1947–1960) in which he taught in vocational and secondary schools, he was employed as a professor at the University of Timisoara in 1961. He worked there until his retirement (1979). A passionate researcher, avid for knowledge, his didactic and scientific research activity materialized in numerous books, studies and articles that were appreciated both by specialists and by the general public, and therefore Marius Mihai Bizerea can be considered a scholar of the Banat region.

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