N. IORGA ŞI PROBLEMELE ROMÂNIEI MODERNE
N. IORGA AND THE PROBLEMS OF MODERN ROMANIA

Summary/Abstract: N. Iorga (1871-1940), historian of the first magnitude, by vocation and by training, there was only the realm of science and culture, which has become - along with D. Cantemir, B. P. Hasdeu, G. Călinescu, or Mircea Eliade - as one of the illustrious representatives of the Romanian civilization. In the first four decades of the last century, he was constantly on the stage of Romania´s political life, embodying the type of militant historian who was with his people in some of the most difficult moments between 1900 and 1940. “Historian - Iorga stressed in his reception at the Romanian Academy in 1911 - is an old man through the experience of his nation. If we do not ask others, he is obliged to speak …” The attitude adopted throughout his public activities, the scientist has not denied any time exposed belief. Directly participate in the crucial events of his time, Iorga continually insisted on categorical resolution of major issues on which the very progress of Romania in the first four decades of the twentieth century.

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