FROM THE HISTORY OF ROMANIAN CULTURE : NICOLAE IORGA : HISTORICAL AND LITERARY PORTRAIT
FROM THE HISTORY OF ROMANIAN CULTURE : NICOLAE IORGA : HISTORICAL AND LITERARY PORTRAIT

Summary/Abstract: A personality like the kind of the Romanian historian and cultural pillar Nicolae Iorga, needs no introduction. His various interests in different fields, along with his life work that spanned six decades and produced over twenty thousand articles and one thousand and two hundred books in fields like history, literary criticism, history of literature and many others, are one of the greatest works of the 20th century. Born in an era when the Romanian modernism was barely in its initial phases, Iorga dedicated his whole life, as a writer, historian and later politician to the modernisation and evolution of the Romanian society. Known as „the teacher of the peopleŗ, his simple life style, encyclopedic personality and honest public persona are responsible for surrounding him with a downright mythical aura. Not only in his own country, but internationally too, he was renowned as a historian of Byzantium but also as a specialist in the history of South-Eastern Europe. He used this fame to work towards his life goal: making Romania known throughout the world. His numerous conferences and seminaries played an important role in the international acknowledgment of the unification of the Romanian provinces, after the First World War. Internally, he promoted a national cultural revolution, to fill in the structures taken from the Occidental world, in the eve of Romanian modern era. Despite conflicts with other important Romanian cultural figures, conflicts generated by his legendary temper and inability to take criticism, his role as one of the artisans of the modern Romanian society cannot be denied. Beyond the myth lies the man, who is just as complex and fascinating as the legend created around him by his contemporaries

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