IMPLICAREA ISTORICULUI ALEXANDRU LAPEDATU ÎN EVENIMENTELE POLITICO-MILITARE DIN ANII 1916-1918
INVOLVEMENT OF HISTORIAN ALEXANDRU LAPEDATU IN THE POLITICAL MILITARY ACTIONS FROM 1916-1918

Summary/Abstract: Biography of a great historian is, invariably, the biography of a great man. Being born outside the political borders of Romanian state, but within the historical ones occupied by Romanian nation, Alexandru Lapedatu was animated, throughout his whole life, by the feeling of affiliation to a territory which he considered to be connected organically with the political project that started in 1859. Convinced about the role and Transylvania’s importance within a modern and democratic Romania, the historian imposed a duty of honour that is sustaining, both by political actions, and through his historical speech, the national action of Romanians from Transylvania, he always identifying with their cause. Trained as a political man following the activity carried out in the Cultural League and the contact with personalities who activated here, the historian, aware of the necessity of promoting much more consistent actions and at the same time coordinated with those from across the Carpathians, supported publicly, after 1900, the political activism of Romanians from Transylvania, as the only way of realizing and applying a political national programme. Thus, involvement of Alexandru Lapedatu in the Romanian political life had a positive role, the historian influencing, by personal experience gained following the research of national history, numerous decisions taken by the authorities of time. Without sketching an idilic portrait of the historian and political man Alexandru Lapedatu, we must underline his importance within the general evolution of Romanian society, accepting also the existence of some options which, over time proved to be less beneficial. Such a moment was that of the evacuation of the Romanian hoard from Russia, in 1917, in front of imminent offensive of German armies, event in which the historian also took part, as associate of national archives, which were enstranged with this occasion.

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