Scurtă privire asupra învățământului silvic superior în România între anii 1906 și 1933 [Short perspective upon the academic silvicultural education between 1906 and 1933]

Abstract

The paper restituted in the present issue of the journal represents a retrospective of academic silvicultural education from Romania during the first decades of the 20th century, between the years 1906 and 1933. The presentation is divided into the following distinct periods: (i) 1906-1923, subdivided into sequences separated by the First World War: before the war (1906-1916) and after the war (1919-1923): (ii) period 1923-1933. This paper is a continuation of the one presented in the previous issue of the journal, that evoqued the establishment and the beginning moments of silvicultural education in the Romanian Kingdom in the second half of the 19th century. If for almost half of a century, at the beginnings, the academic silvicultural education was characterised by turmoil, hesitations and improvisations, the establishing of the Sivicultural School at Brănești, in 1894, brought a remarkable progress and upgrade. The activity of the Superior Silvicultural School from Brănești was brutally interrupted after 22 years with the entrance of Romania in the First World War (1916), and the academic silvicultural education returned to a provisional state until 1923, when it is enclosed in The Polythechnical School of Bucharest under the name of Silvicultural section. Here, the academic silvicultural education knows a new period of stability and progress that would last 25 years until the reform of academic education conducted by the communists in 1948. Organising silvicultural education in Romania between the wars established through the law from 1923 led to a very well instructed staff at all levels of silvicultural administration and to the recrutation of didactic and research professionals so necessary that gave remarkable results in the silvicultural administration.