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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.
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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.
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.
Nicolae Iorga was born on 5 June 1871 and was murdered on 27 November 1940 — a fate from which we academics are usually exempt: the most we risk is character assassination by our colleagues in the professional journals.
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."
Dec 12, 2023 · This chapter discusses how the memory of an influential figure of modern Roma-nia's history like Nicolae Iorga (1871-1940), a foremost historian-politician and nationalist intellectual, became...
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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.
