Virgil Madgearu: profesorul, omul cetăţii, doctrinarul (Full eBook)
Virgil Madgearu: the teacher, the man of the city, the doctrinaire (Full eBook)

Contributor(s): Dumitru Miron (Editor), Mihai Korka (Editor)
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Economy, Education, Adult Education, Higher Education
Published by: EDITURA ASE
Keywords: Romanian higher education history; higher commercial and industrial studies; new disciplines in the curriculum; doctoral seminar; interdisciplinary research; civic activism; schools of economic though
Summary/Abstract: This volume is a collective work dedicated to the memory of Virgil Madgearu (1887-1940) a preeminent professor of the Academy of Higher Commercial and Industrial Studies, the innitial name of the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. Each chapter of the book reveals defining elements of Madgearu’s life and work, his beliefs, viewpoints and active involvement in the academic and institutional development of the university (1917-1940), in the interdisciplinary research of the economy and society, in shaping the Romanian peasant doctrine and promoting Europe wide the interests of agrarian countries, in assuming political responsibilities as parlamentarian or as member of various interwar governments. As a respected professor and a leading politician he vigorously rejected the presence and influence of extreme right movements in the society and that valiant attitude was at the origin of his assassination in November 1940.

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