CONTRIBUȚIA LUI NICOLAE ILIEŞIU LA CUNOAȘTEREA ISTORIEI MEDIEVALE A BANATULUI
NICOLAE ILIEȘIU AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF MEDIEVAL HISTORY OF BANAT

Summary/Abstract: Nicolae Ilieşiu was born at Ţebea (Hunedoara County) on 26 September 1890. He studied in Brad and Braşov, and then he attented the Theological School in Arad. Then he went to Cluj were he graduated from the Law School and took his degree in Law. For a short while he worked as a priest, but then he taught History and Geography at ‘C.D. Loga’ Secondary School in Timişoara. As a member of the National Peasant Party he was elected deputy (1928-1931) and senator (1932-1933). He was contributor to several publications such as ‘Banatul’ (1919-1921), ‘The Will Of The Banat’, the political periodical ‘Banat’, ‘The Enlightener’ (1939-1941) and ‘Dacia’. Between April 1935 and 1938 he was chief-editor of the political periodical ‘Banat’. From 1931 to 1941 he was the chief-editor of ‘Dacia’, the periodical being under the aegis of the Society Astra of Banat. He edited the calendar ‘The Life Of Banat’ (1932-1940), ‘Calendar of The Good Romanian’ (1932) and ‘Calendar for everyone’ (1932-1940). To draw up a general history of Banat has released a historical questionnaire in all the villages and towns of Banat (action initiated in 1934). In 1943 he published his main work: Timişoara. Historical monograph. His manuscripts (regar-ding mostly the World War I and the Great Union) – surveys and answers to the questionnnaires released in the Banat – are kept at the ‘Banatul’ Museum, the Direction of Timiş county of the National Archives of Romania and the Museum of Banat in Reșița. The Nicolae Ilieșiu contri-butions represent an important step forward in the deciphering of the medieval past, these contri-butions it recommends him as a serious historian, pleasant, alert, able to convey to the public the message of the past. He died on 5 May 1963 in Timișoara.

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