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Mihai Maxim
Mihai Maxim

Author(s): Gabriel Custurea
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Middle Ages, Obituary
Published by: Muzeul de Istorie Națională și Arheologie Constanța
Keywords: historian; ancient history; oriental studies; osmanistics;

Summary/Abstract: The article is a tribute to the historian Mihai Maxim, born on 9 November 1943 in Vorniceni, county Botosani. He attended high school at Iasi. In 1961 he became a student of the Faculty of History at the University "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" from Iași being attracted especially by the ancient history. The course of his his career was influenced by the possibility of specializing in 1963 in the field of oriental studies in the Soviet Union. Thus, he continued his studies initially at the Faculty of Oriental Studies of the University of Baku (Azerbaijan),then at Lomonosov University in Moscow, where he specialized in osmanistic. From 1968 he became an intern at the Faculty of History of University of Bucharest, where he embraced his teaching career until his retirement in2011, being since 1976 assistant professor, university lecturer 1978, associate professor 1990 and teacher since 1993.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 50
  • Page Range: 665-674
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian