Titus Cristureanu – Leading Figure of the Romanian International Business and Economics Higher Education Tradition

Abstract

In just few years, between 1952-1958, the post-war Romanian higher education in Foreign Trade Economics had been set up and repeatedly reorganized: The Foreign Trade Institute was founded in 1952 in Bucharest, and only in three academic years disbanded, foreign trade education having been integrated into the Institute of Economic Sciences and Planning (today’s Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest / ASE,) first as a separate school, and then as a department of the Faculty of Commerce. One of its leaders then was Professor Titus Cristureanu – having had relevant experience in diplomacy and international negotiations. Back in 1934, Caius Bardoși, holding a Phd in Law, making reference to one of his volumes, wrote: „The book may and should be read by any intellectual wishing to get educated and oriented in today’s world chaos”. At ASE, Dr. Titus Cristureanu became known as a Professor of Foreign Trade Statistics at the Department of Economic Computation and Economic Cybernetics. At the same time, starting with the mid-sixties, he was appointed as a PhD adviser at the Faculty of Commerce.

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• Personalities