L’ ASTRA et l’Académie Roumaine
ASTRA and the Romanian Academy

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the similarities and parallels between the Transylvanian Association for Romanian Literature and the Culture of the Romanian People (ASTRA), founded in Sibiu in 1861 (at that time in the Habsburg Empire) and the Romanian Literary Society (Bucharest, 1866), which became the Romanian Academic Society (1867), and then the Romanian Academy (1879), all institutional frameworks that fostered national unity through science and culture. The Transylvanian cultural association and its counterpart in Romania were identical when it came to their programs and internal organization (departments), and the Transylvanian members of the Romanian Academy were also members of the ASTRA.

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