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- Initiator of large-scale campaigns to defend Romanian culture in front of perceived threats, Iorga sparked most controversy with his antisemitic rhetoric, and was for long an associate of the far-right ideologue A. C. Cuza. He was an adversary of the dominant National Liberals, later involved with the opposition Romanian National Party.
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Nicolae Iorga was a scholar and statesman, Romania’s greatest national historian, who also served briefly as its prime minister (1931–32). Appointed professor of universal history at Bucharest (1895), Iorga early established his historical reputation with his two-volume Geschichte des rumänischen.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
In parallel with his academic contributions, Nicolae Iorga was a prominent right-of-centre activist, whose political theory bridged conservatism, Romanian nationalism, and agrarianism. From Marxist beginnings, he switched sides and became a maverick disciple of the Junimea movement.
A professor at the Univ. of Bucharest, he founded (1910) and later led the National Democratic party; after World War I he was president of the Romanian national assembly. In 1931–32 he was premier of a coalition government under King Carol II. In Nov., 1940, Iorga was murdered by the Iron Guard.
When at only 19, Nicolae Iorga (1871-1940) defended his university degree examinations one of his examining professors characterized him as "a true phenomenon both in point of memory and power of ratiocination." Then Iorga worked hard in Paris and in Germany, obtaining a diploma from the prestigious école Pratique des Hautes études and his ...
Nicolae Iorga (1871-1940) was Romania's best-known historian and public intellectual between the two world wars, both at home and abroad. He is seen as the father of Romanian nationalism, as well as the main provider of historical continuity and legitimacy for the new Greater Romania of 1918.
- Georgiana Taranu
Iorga insisted that all volumes were based on sources and that he wanted to write an account of the “development of Byzantine life,” not an annotated chronology. In addition, he wanted to treat Byzantine history as part of world history.
Iorga received his doctorate from the University of Leipzig in October 1893. A year later he was appointed to the chair of World History at Bucharest which he occupied until his death. By that time he had written or edited over 1300 books and, at the last count, 10 000 articles.
