The polemic between Pamfil Polonic and Grigore G. Tocilescu
The polemic between Pamfil Polonic and Grigore G. Tocilescu

Summary/Abstract: The archaeological activity of Grigore G. Tocilescu and his assistant, surveyor Pamfil Polonic, has been analysed by many historians. Their contributions to the Romanian archaeology and museology are known. However, one of the issues that had remained unclear is the reason for the ceasing of the collaboration between the two and why, until now, nothing clear had been written on the matter. Recent research on this subject has revealed a possible explanation and the solution for the partial resolution of this issue. The present text is based on documents from the funds of the Ministry of Cults and Public Instruction, which refer to certain misunderstandings that had appeared between Grigore G. Tocilescu and Pamfil Polonic. Because of loans that were left unreturned by Pamfil Polonic, for which Grigore G. Tocilescu always warranted, the situation escalated to the former’s destitution from the position of draftsman, which he had at the National Museum of Antiquities. The misunderstandings between the two on this subject had started soon after the beginning of their collaboration. Several documents from 1894 prove that Pamfil Polonic was in debt to Grigore G. Tocilescu. Their petitions to the Ministry date from 1902-1903. In this case Pamfil Polonic didn’t simply renouncing his position at the National Museum of Antiquities and the triumph of his position as debtor, which Grigore G. Tocilescu tried to highlight. There also existed several court orders which bound Pamfil Polonic to return those sums, that, in a last attempt, he again redirects to Grigore G. Tocilescu, which caused the latter great upset.

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