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ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS

HISTORICAL SCIENCES and ARCHAEOLOGY

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MEMBERS FROM ROMANIA:

No. Name, Surname Membership Residence

1. SOLCANU, ION President of the Section

Full Member Iaşi

2. BUŞE, CONSTANTIN Full Member Bucharest

3. GOROVEI, ŞTEFAN-SORIN Full Member Iaşi

4. LUNGU, CORNELIU MIHAI Full Member Bucharest

5. ROTARU, JIPA Full Member Bucharest

6. SĂRARU, DINU Founding Full Member Bucharest

7. SCURTU, IOAN Founding Full Member Bucharest

8. Acad. THEODORESCU, EMIL RĂZVAN Founding Full Member Bucharest

9. VERGATTI, RADU ŞTEFAN Full Member Târgovişte

10. ZAMFIRESCU, DAN Full Member Târgovişte

11. CIUCEANU, RADU Honorary Member Bucharest

12. FLORESCU ELENA Honorary Member Piatra Neamţ

13. GHEORGHE CRISTACHE Honorary Member Bucharest

14. HATMANU, DAN Honorary Member Iaşi

15. BUDA, OCTAVIAN Corresponding Member Bucharest

16. CIORBEA, VALENTIN Corresponding Member Constanţa

17. CLIVETI, GHEORGHE Corresponding Member Iaşi

18. DRECIN, MIHAI-DORIN Corresponding Member Cluj-Napoca / Oradea

19. DUMITRESCU HORIA Corresponding Member Bucharest

19. ONIŞORU, GHEORGHE Corresponding Member Iaşi / Suceava

20. ŢURLEA PETRE Corresponding Member Bucharest

21. GEMIL TAHSIN (TASIN) Honorific Member Cluj-Napoca

22. OPRIŞ, IOAN Honorific Member Bucharest

23. BOLOVAN, IOAN Associate Member Cluj-Napoca

25. DAMEAN, SORIN Associate Member Târgovişte-Craiova

26. HLIHOR, CONSTANTIN Associate Member Bucharest

27. LASCU, STOICA Associate Member Constanţa

28. RETEGAN, MIHAI Associate Member Bucharest

29. ZAINEA ION Associate Member Cluj-Napoca-Oradea

OVERSEAS MEMBERS:

No. Name, Surname Membership Residence

20. ANCEAU, ERIC Honorary Member France

21. BÜLENT, ÖZDEMIR Honorary Member Turkey

22. CRISTEA, GEORGE Honorary Member Sweden

23. MALDAGUE DE LA HÉRY, JEAN-PIERRE Honorary Member Belgium

24. MILJKOVIĆ, EMA Honorary Member Serbia

25. PETRENCU, ANATOL Honorary Member Rep. Moldova

26. URSU, TIMOTEI Honorary Member USA

27. WATTS, LARRY Honorary Member USA



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MEMBERS FROM ROMANIA:

SOLCANU, Ion

President of the Section

Full Member (since 2007)

Professor, Ph.D., Iaşi.

Specialization: history of medieval Romanian art and cultural interferences in South-East Europe.

Areas of expertise: evolution of Romanian and universal art; painting and architecture of art monuments.

BUŞE, Constantin

Full Member (2011)

Professor, Ph.D., Bucharest.

Specialisation: modern and contemporary history of Romania and the world.

Areas of expertise: history of international relations; history of Latin America.

Corresponding Member - 2008.

Sursa foto: Monitorul de Suceava

GOROVEI, Ştefan Sorin

Full Member (2008)

Professor, Ph.D., Iaşi.

Specialisation: history of the middle ages.

Areas of expertise: political, social, cultural history; genealogy – history of great families; clans, authorities, powers; public and private heraldry; sigillography; history of towns – urban patriciate; ecclesiastic history; historiography.

Corresponding Member - 2007.



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LUNGU, Corneliu-Mihail

Full Member (2015)


Specialisation: modern and contemporary history, archives.

Areas of expertise: history of international relations, status of the Romanian Principalities in the modern era; archival legislation; management and establishment of archival documents.

Associate Member - 2010. Corresponding Member - 2011.

ROTARU, Jipa

Full Member (since 2018)


Specialisation: modern and contemporary history of Romania, military history.

Areas of expertise: history World War I and II, history of military navy.

Associate Member - 2012. Corresponding Member - 2016

SĂRARU, Constantin (Dinu) Grigore

Founding Full Member, (2007)

Member in the Honorary Council

Writer, journalist, Bucharest. Creator of the National Foundation for Rural Civilisation “Nişte Ţărani” (“Some Peasants”) and of Universitatea Ţărănească (the Peasant University).

Specialisation: literature, theatre criticism, rural sociology, contemporary history

Areas of expertise: journalism, contemporary novel, theatre, sociological research.



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SCURTU, Ioan

Founding Full Member (2007)


Specialisation: modern and contemporary history of Romania.

Areas of expertise: political structures; everyday life; political institutions; history of mentalities; international relations; history of civilization.

Academician THEODORESCU, Emil Răzvan

Founding Full Member (2007)

Full Member of the Romanian Academy.


Specialisation: medieval history, history of culture and art.

Areas of expertise: Romanian and European art; Byzantinology; commencement of Romanian modernity.

VERGATTI, Radu Ştefan

Full Member (2011)


Specialisation: medieval history and culture, historical demography.

Areas of scientific competence: history of the Church, national and international historical monuments, national and international libraries.

Corresponding Member – 2007.



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ZAMFIRESCU, Dan

Full Member (2007)

Historian, writer, literary critic, Bucharest. Doctor Honoris Causa of “Saints Cyril and Methodius” University of Veliko Tarnovo, 23.02.2014.

Specialisation: medieval history, Slavonic studies, history of old Romanian literature.

Areas of expertise: old Romanian literature; old and modern Romanian culture; place and role of Romanian culture in Europe and the world; Romanian Orthodox spirituality; history of South-eastern European culture.

CIUCEANU, Radu

Honorary Member (2012)

Senior researcher, Ph.D. in history, Bucharest.

Specialisation: Romania's contemporary history, archaeology.

Areas of scientific competence: ancient and medieval archaeology; anticommunist resistance; the concentrationary regime in Romania.

FLORESCU, ELENA


Ph.D., ethnographer, curator, Piatra Neamţ.

Specialisation: museology and ethnography.

Areas of expertise: popular, material and spiritual culture from Neamţ and Bacău counties.

Associate Member (since 2007)



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Colonel (r) GHEORGHE, Cristache


Military, historian, journalist, Bucharest.

Specialisation: military history and theory.

Areas of expertise: political and military personalities, medals, historiography.

Associate Member since 2008.

BUDA, OCTAVIAN

Corresponding Member (2018)

PhD in medical sciences, degree in philosophy, tenured Prof. PhD. – Department of History of Medicine UMF “Carol Davila” - Bucharest, Vice-president of the Romanian Society of History of Medicine. President of EAHMH - The European Association for the History of Medicine and Health, since 2015. Areas of expertise: history of medicine, psychiatric and cultural anthropology, bioethics, philosophy and psychiatry, psychoanalysis. Cultural pathography. Philosophy and psychiatry. Coordinating editor - Romanian Journal of Legal Medicine – RJLM. Associate Member since 2017

DRECIN, Mihai-Dorin


Professor, Ph.D., Oradea.

Specialisation: contemporary history of Romania.

Areas of expertise: international relations, history of Romanian economy, the banking system.

Associate member since 2012.



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DUMITRESCU, HORIA


Curator, PhD in history, Focşani.

Specialisation: universal and national modern and contemporary history, museology.

Areas of expertise: history of World War II; history of international relations, management of museums.

Associate member since 2010.

CLIVETI, Gheorghe


Professor, Ph.D., Iaşi. Specialisation: Romania’s modern history, history of Europe. Areas of scientific competence: history of international relations, historiography, institutions, political trends. Associate member since 2015.

CIORBEA, Valentin

Corresponding Member 2015

Professor, Ph.D., Constanţa.

Specialization: modern and contemporary history of Romania and the world.

Areas of scientific competence: history of the navy, military history, history of Dobrogea.



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ONIŞORU, Gheorghe

Corresponding Member (since 2018)

Professor, PhD. in history, PhD. thesis defended at Al. I. Cuza University of Iaşi, 1995; Faculty of International Relations, History and Philosophy, Spiru Haret University. PhD. coordinator in history, Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava, since 2002; Spiru Haret University – higher education and research. Areas of expertise: contemporary history of Romania and Universal history; totalitarianism in Romania; international relations; Romania in the years 1944-1948: economic transformations and social realities; establishment of the Communist regime in Romania, history of the National Liberal Party; communism in Romania - ideology, foundations, dilemmas; totalitarianism and resistance, terror and repression in communist Romania; the anti-communist armed resistance movement in Romania, 1944 -1962. Associate Member since 2016.

ŢURLEA, Petre

Corresponding Member (since 2018)

Professor, Ph.D., Ploieşti.

Specialisation: contemporary history of Romania.

Areas of scientific competence: political life, international relations, World War II, historiography

Associate Member (2014)

GEMIL, TASIN

Honorific Member (2015)

Professor, Ph.D., Cluj-Napoca.

Specialisation: medieval and modern history of Romania and the world.

Areas of scientific competence: - history of the Romanian-Ottoman-Tatar relations; history, culture and current situation of the peoples of the Turkic world.



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OPRIŞ, IOAN

Honorific Member (2017)

Professor PhD. Honoris Causa, Valahia University of Târgovişte

Outstanding personality of Romanian museology and one of the most learned and capable historians of the academic environment in our country. As signatory of more than 30 scientific papers as sole author on major topics of historical knowledge, we owe Professor Ioan Opris several other dozens of books he has coordinated as doctoral supervisor and which he has introduced into the mandatory bibliography of his area of expertise. Hundreds of scientific articles bear his signature and help refreshing historical science. Numerous exhibitions be they itinerant in the country or abroad, fruitful contributions to the foundation and development of museums and laboratories in Romania, starting with one of the exponential institutions of our country, Cotroceni National Museum (opened on December 27, 1991), which owes him its existence, but also the National History Museum of Romania, where he has been active for a significant number of years, his contribution to the protection and enhancement of the governmental and ministerial heritage are a telling evidence of the impact and prestige enjoyed by Professor Ioan Opris.

Areas of expertise: museology, contemporary history.

DAMEAN, SORIN-LIVIU

Associate Member 2012

Professor, Ph.D., Craiova.

Specialization: modern history of Romania.

Areas of expertise: international relations, diplomacy, institutions, political parties..

HLIHOR, CONSTANTIN Associate Member 2017

Professor (Order of the Minister of Education, Research and Youth no. 3183/1996); Senior research (Order of the Minister of Education and Scientific Research no. 3381 of 10.03.2016); Dean of the Faculty of History, Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University (May 2010-May 2015); Director of the Research Centre for National and Universal History of the Faculty of History, Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University (May 2010-present). Areas of expertise: contemporary history of Romania, history of international relations, geopolitics and geo-strategy, security studies, communication in international conflicts. Outstanding achievements: 2000-2001- member of Parallel History Project on NATO and Warsaw Pact, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington D.C; Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington D.C; Doctor Honorius Causa of Ovidius University of Constanţa; 2012 - member of the editorial board of Science Publishing Group System.



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LASCU, Stoica


Professor – Ovidius University of Constanţa (Faculty of History and Political Sciences); President of Constanţa Branch of the Romanian Society for Historical Sciences. Specialisation: modern and contemporary history of Romania, universal modern history. Areas of expertise: history of Romanians in the 19th -20th centuries; the history of Dobrogea; the history of the Balkan Latinity; the history of Albania and the Romanian-Albanian relations; the history of Romanians worldwide (the Macedo-Romanians and the Megleno-Rumanians); contemporary historiography.

RETEGAN, Mihai



Specialisation: contemporary history of Romanians and the world.

Areas of scientific competence: World War I and II, history of international relations, history of communism.

ZAINEA, Ion


Professor, PhD., University of Oradea, director of the Doctoral School of History. Areas of expertise: the Romanian issue of the interwar period and the communist era, especially the process of political purification and censorship of Romanian historiography. References: Enciclopedia personalităţilor din România (Encyclopaedia of Romanian Personalities). Editura Hübners Who Is Who, editions of 2006-2014; Ioan Chindriş, „Ar trebui împuşcaţi” (They Should Be Shot), in Informaţia, Cluj, new series, 2008, no. 100 (961), p. 9; Mircea Popa, „Istoria arestată” (History Arrested), in Oraşul, urban culture journal, Cluj-Napoca, year III, no. 10 (2/2008), p. 5; Ioacob Mârza, „I. Zainea, Cenzura istoriei, istoria cenzurată. Documente (1966-1972) (I. Zainea, Censorship of History, Censored History. Documents), Editura Universităţii din Oradea, 2006, p. 321, in Patrimonivm Apvlense, VII-VIII, Alba Iulia, 2008, pp. 357-359; Maria Danilov, „Ion Zainea, Istoriografia română şi cenzura comunistă (1966-1977) (Ion Zainea, Romanian Historiography and Communist Censorship), Editura Universităţii din Oradea, 2010, in Destin românesc. Revistă de istorie şi cultură, new series, Chişinău, 2011, year VI (XVII), no. 3 (73), pp. 176-185; Mihaela Teodor, „I. Zainea, Istoriografia română şi cenzura comunistă (Ion Zainea, Romanian Historiography and Communist Censorship) (1966-1977), Oradea: Ed. Universităţii din Oradea, 2010”, in Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Ephemerides, vol. LVII, 1/2012, pp. 146-148.



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MEMBRI DIN STRĂINĂTATE:

ANCEAU, Eric

Honorary Member (2015), France

Professor, Ph.D., France.

Specialisation: modern and contemporary history.

Areas of scientific competence: international relations, political and social history of France.

BÜLENT, Özdemir

Honorary Member, TURKEY

Prof. PhD. - Balıkesir Üniversitesi, Arts and Sciences Faculty

History Department.

Major Courses Taught: Historical Method and Thought; 20th Century World History; Modern European History; History of Political Thought; Modern Ottoman History; History of Colonialism.

CRISTEA, George

Honorary Member, Stockholm, SWEDEN

Researcher, journalist, historian and writer, Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Oradea, degree in Physics-Mathematics. Producer of documentary films on historical topics.

http://w3.balikesir.edu.tr/~ozdemirb/eserler/



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MALDAGUE, DE LA, Héry Jean-Pierre

Corresponding Member, BELGIUM

Art history

MILJKOVIĆ, Ema

Honorary Member, Belgrade, SERBIA

Specialisation: early history of modern times; history of the Ottoman Empire; history of Serbia (15th-18th centuries); history of Serbia in the Ottoman Empire; history of the Serbs in the Republic of Venice.

PETRENCU, Anatol

Honorary Member, Kishinev, Republic of Moldova

Holder of a doctorate in historical sciences, professor, Director of ProMemoria Institute of Social History. Specialisation: painting, art history. Areas of expertise: painting, drawing, organisation of personal and group

exhibitions in the country and abroad.



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URSU, Timotei

Honorary Member, USA

Filmmaker, playwright, journalist, researcher, historian and an archaeology enthusiast, community activist, Timotei Ursu is a member of the Romanian Filmmakers Union, the Writers’ Union and the Union of Professional Journalists of Romania. Areas of activity: directing movies and television programmes; stage production; playwright; journalism; scientific research; community activities. Areas of expertise: directing movies and television programmes; stage production; playwright; journalism; scientific research; community activities.

WATTS, Larry

Honorary Member, USA

History, secret services, diplomacy. Specialist in the history of Soviet and East European secret services. He focused on the institutional and bureaucratic behaviour of constraint Soviet state institutions - the military and later the KGB - in order to predict the Soviet behaviour and to identify the vulnerabilities and problems that could be exploited or turned to profit by the USA.



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Deceased Members:

Academician CONSTANTINIU, FLORIN

HHoonnoorraarryy MMeemmbbeerr

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Professional activity: between 1957 and 1999, he carried out his scientific activity at the Institute of History of the Academy of the Romanian People’s Republic (the current N. Iorga Institute of History), covering all the levels from a trainee researcher to senior scientific researcher I. He attended colloquia and congresses held in France, UK, Germany, Italy, Austria, Yugoslavia, Greece, Czech Republic, Poland, Russia and Mongolia.

Research activity: between 1957 and 1972 he studied the agrarian relations in Wallachia in the eighteenth century and the reform policy of Phanariote princes, especially that of Constantin Mavrocordat, in the sphere of the relations between landowners and landless peasants; the

investigation was conducted in a broader framework of East-European agricultural history; from the early 1970s, his occupational preoccupations focussed on World War II, especially on the act of 23 August 1944, whose strategic, political and economic consequences were investigated on the basis of a rich information, Academician Constantiniu advocating the view according to which Romania’s detachment from the Third Reich hurried with about six months the end of the WW II in Europe. Since 1990 he was increasingly attracted by the issue of the Cold War, especially by Romania’s entry into the USSR’s hegemony sphere and the communisation / sovietisation process of Romania. He conducted researches in archives and libraries of France, the U.S. and Russia.

Publications: Relaţiile agrare din Ţara Românească în secolul al XVIII-lea (The Agrarian Relations in Wallachia in the Eighteenth Century), 1972; Constantin Mavrocordat, 1985; Între Hitler şi Stalin. România şi Pactul Ribbentrop-Molotov (Between Hitler and Stalin. Romania and the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact), 1991; Doi ori doi fac şaisprezece. A început războiul rece în România? (Two Times Two Is Sixteen. Has the Cold War Begun in Romania?), 1997; O istorie sinceră a poporului roman (An Honest History of the Romanian People), 1977, 2nd ed. (reviewed and enlarged), idem, 1999, 3rd, (reviewed and enlarged), idem, 2002; De la războiul fierbinte la Războiul rece (From the Hot War to the Cold War) , 1999; PCR, Pătrăşcanu şi Transilvania (The Romanian Communist Party, Pătrăşcanu and Transylvania), 2001; 1941. Hitler, Stalin şi România (Hitler, Stalin and Romania), 2002. Co-author: Istoria României (History of Romania), vol. III, 1964; Istoria lumii în date (History of the World in Dates), 1969; Istoria poporului roman (History of the Romanian People), 1970; Istoria României în date (History of Romania in Dates), 1971; România în anii celui de-Al Doilea Război Mondial (Romania during WW II), vol. I-III, 1989; România în război (Romania in War), 1995; Trecerea Nistrului. 1941 (Crossing the Dniester. 1941). O decizie controversată (A Controversial Decision), 1995. References: Enciclopedia istoriografiei româneşti (Encyclopaedia of Romanian Historiography), Ed. Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, Bucharest, 1978, p. 107; Dorina N. Rusu, Membrii Academiei Române 1866-1999. Dicţionar (Members of the Romanian Academy 1866-1999. Dictionary), 2nd ed., Ed. Academiei Române, Bucharest, 1999, p. 139.

BUZATU, GHEORGHE

Historian, Full Member

Professor PhD.

(June 6, 1939, Sihlea, Vrancea County-

deceased May 20, 2013, Bucharest)

Senior researcher, the Romanian Academy – Iaşi Branch; professor, Ovidius University of Constanţa, Ph.D. coordinator, director of the Centre for Euro-Atlantic Studies. Specialisation: Universal and national modern and contemporary history. Areas of expertise: History of World War II; history of international relations; military history; history of Romanian oil. References: CV

http://www.aos.ro/site_mod/Primapagina/CV-uriMembri/s11-Gheorghe-Buzatu.pdf



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BORONENŢ, Vasile Full Member

Born on December 28, 1930 –– deceased on July 4, 2014

Senior researcher, Museum of History of Bucharest.

Specialisation: archaeology.

Areas of expertise: epipaleolithic; mesolithic; the Bronze Age; cave paintings and engravings; historiography.

Biography

POTRA, G. George Full Member

Born on February 9, 1940 Bucharest – deceased on December 17,

2015, Bucharest

Historian, editor, Bucharest. Specialisation: contemporary history of Romania and the world. Areas of scientific competence: history of international relations and of Romanian diplomacy; Nicolae Titulescu’s activity, history of culture. Prominent historian, political scientist, writer, archivist, editor, director of Titulescu European Foundation; scientific director of the Association of International Law and International Relations – Romania, George Potra was an expert in Universal and national modern and contemporary history. Areas of expertise: history of international relations and of Romanian diplomacy; investigation of national archives and libraries from various states concerning

foreign politics and Romanian diplomacy; editing Romanian diplomatic documents from the interwar and contemporary periods; coordinating and moderating debates within the Centre of Strategic Studies of Titulescu European Foundation. References: CV

Nicolae BOCŞAN

(September 24, 1947, Bocşa, Caraş-Severin County – June 19, 2016, Cluj-

Napoca)

Associate Member (2014)

Professor Nicolae Bocşan stands out by a wide and profound work based on archival documents, focusing mainly on the past of Transylvania and Banat, as well as on the confrontations of ideas in the modern age, the role of the Church, everyday life, the demographic evolutions of the two Romanian provinces. A professor of vocation, holder of the course of Romania’s Modern History at Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Nicolae Bocşan was appreciated and loved by his students, master and doctoral students, as well as by the numerous professors to whom he had coordinated the scientific work for promoting in the academic hierarchy Dean of the Faculty of History-Philosophy and rector of Babeş-

Bolyai University, Professor Bocşan engraved his name among the most illustrious representatives of the Transylvanian

http://www.aos.ro/site_mod/Primapagina/CV-uriMembri/s11-Biografie-Vasile-Boroneant.pdf

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intelligentsia, proving to be both an excellent organizer and communicator. Nicolae Bocşan is no longer among us, but he left behind a WORK and the memory of a generous and demanding MAN, a model of a teacher dedicated to education and science. Professor PhD. at Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Department of Modern History. Areas of expertise: modern history of Romania; history of ideas; history of culture; history of international relations in the modern age; history of the Church; the Revolution of 1848.

MITREA, IOAN

Associate Member (2011) April 4, 1937, Girov, Bacău County – July 21, 2017, Bacău

Senior researcher, historian and archaeologist of great prestige Professor Ioan Mitrea, made an exceptional contribution [in more than 60 years of hard work] in deciphering on scientific basis the data provided by the archaeological excavations on several archaeological sites in Bacău and other counties of our country, as to what has been called “the dark millennium” in history. Professor Ioan Mitrea was celebrated by the community of Bacău, by his colleagues and friends, at the venerable age of 80 years. He started his archaeological research as a student, under the guidance of prestigious archaeologists, he was a professor in Iasi and Bacău, a professor at the Ferdinad I High School, director of the History Museum of Bacău. “He worked a lifetime, was fascinated by the history of his country, to which he devoted all his energy, skill and science, spending years on archaeological sites, discovering unique vestiges that attest to the continuity of this people in these territories.”

Specialisation: archaeology. Areas of expertise: archaeology of Moldavia, settlements of the 6th-9th centuries. Professor, Ph.D., Bacău. Specialisation: archaeology, ancient history of Romanians and history of the world. Areas of expertise: archaeology of Moldavia, settlements of the 6th-9th centuries, historiography

Academician GIURESCU, DINU

Honorific Member

Born on February 15, 1927, Bucharest – Deceased on April 24, 2018,

Bucharest

Consultant Professor at the University of Bucharest, renowned specialist in the history of the Romanians, author of valuable synthesis works and monographs, appreciated for both their rich information and innovative, highly scientific interpretations.

Exemplary are also his volumes on medieval art and the reign of Ioan Vodă cel Viteaz (John III the Brave), the situation of Romania after the Second World War (Rădescu’s rule, the 1946 parliamentary elections, the royal strike, foreign policy, etc.). Dinu C. Giurescu was also a “man of the city”, who took a public attitude against the demolition of historical and art monuments during Ceauşescu’s era, as well as against the policy of destruction of the national economy after 1989, anf fought to defend and promote Romania’s interests. He strove to edit historical sources and also to elaborate compendia of our national history: „Istoria românilor din cele mai vechi timpuri până azi“ (The History of the Romanians from



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Ancient Times until Today) (1971, co-author), „Istoria românilor“ (History of the Romanians) (1974-1975, co-author), „Istoria ilustrată a românilor“ (Illustrated History of the Romanians) (1981-1982). He paid a special attention to the issues referring to contemporary history: “Romania’s Communist Takeover: The Rădescu Government” (1994), „România în al Doilea Război Mondial“ (Romania during WW II) (1999), „Imposibila încercare. Greva regală 1945“ (The Impossible Endeavour. The Royal Strike) (1999), „Romania in the Second World War“ (1939-1945) (2000), „Cade Cortina de fier. România 1947“ (The Iron Curtain Falls. Romania 1947) (2002), „Documente privind alegerile din 1946“ (Documents concerning the 1946 Elections) (2001), „Uzurpatorii“ (The Usurpers) (2004), „De la Sovromconstrucţii la Academia Română“ (2008) and many others. He coordinated and co-authored the volumes IX (ed. I, 2008; 2nd ed. 2016) and X (2013) of the priceless treatise „Istoria românilor“ (History of the Romanians), a fundamental work prepared under the aegis of the Romanian Academy.

HATMANU, Dan

Honorary Member (since 2007)

October 31, 1926, Scobinţi, Iaşi County – December 27, 2018, Iaşi

Romanian painter and graphic artist, in the first part of his creative work, he made portraits and landscapes in a realistic-traditional manner, which he later abandoned in favour of a constructivist formula with figurative shades and humorous nuances. In 1945 he enrolled at the Institute of Fine Arts in Iasi, where his teachers were, among others, Corneliu Baba and Ion Irimescu, and which he graduated in 1950. He entered a competition following which he received the Nicolae Grigorescu Scholarship of the Romanian Academy, which consisted of a year of study in Leningrad and another year in Paris. Thus he attended the courses of the Repin Academy of Leningrad (1962-1963) and of the Free Academy in Paris, whence he continued at the International Pedagogical Institute in Sèvres (1964-1965). Contemporary with Baba and other sacred monsters of painting, Dan Hatmanu since his lifetime occupied a prominent place in the gallery of honour of Romanian culture. He made his debut in 1948, participated in many collective and group exhibitions and organised dozens of personal exhibitions in Romania and abroad. Among his most important participations in international exhibitions let us cite: the 1954 Biennial in Venice, 1958 - Prague, Sofia, Teheran, Moscow, 1959 - Budapest, Vienna, 1962 - Cairo, Athens, Paris, Ankara, Istanbul, 1974 - Tokyo, Osaka, 1975 - Skopje, Havana, 1977 - Lisbon, Prague, 1981 - Vienna, 1985 - Stuttgart, Venice, Perugia. He illustrated books by Ionel Teodoreanu, Anton Bacalbașa, Petru Prânzei and Valentin Ciucă. His works can be found in many museums in Romania, such as the Municipal Museum of Huși, the Art Museum of Iași, the Art Museum of Piatra Neamț, the Art Museum "Casa Simian" of Râmnicu Vâlcea, but also in private collections and museums worldwide: Rio de Janeiro, Valletta, Poitiers, Ciudad de Mexico, Prague, France, Italy, Israel, Greece, Germany.

Professor Ph.D., Iaşi.

Specialisation: painting, history of art.

Areas of expertise: contemporary painting, drawing, organization of personal and group exhibitions

MEMBERS who have resigned:

https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Ciuc%C4%83

https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu%C8%99i

https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valletta

https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poitiers



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BOLOVAN, Ioan

Associate Member (2015-2019)

Professor, Ph.D., Cluj-Napoca.

Specialisation: modern history of Romania and history of the world, historical demography.

Areas of scientific competence: history of Transylvania, history of World War II, evolution of the population.