Annals: Series on History and Archaeology (Academy of Romanian Scientists) (Nov 2019)
THE CONTRIBUTION OF DOCTOR CONSTANTIN D. ANGELESCU TO THE CREATION AND STRENGTHENING OF GREATER ROMANIA
Abstract
Doctor Constantin D. Angelescu (1869-1948) was one of the remarkable figures of the scientific, cultural and political life of Romania. He was preoccupied with the formation of Greater Romania. He strived so that, at the end of the First World War, the Kingdom of Romania would be joined with the territories that were under foreign rule: Bessarabia, Bukovina, Transylvania. After the formation of Greater Romania, Doctor Angelescu struggled so that through education the entire population of Romania would be homogenized and united. He managed to build over 6 000 schools that had spread the Romanian language among all the children that were following the primary, secondary, high school in the Kingdom of Romania. Thus he accomplished the correction of an educational system that until then was professed in Russian in Bessarabia, in Hungarian in Transylvania, in German in Banat and Bukovina. His work was struck by the Communist regime. He died killed by communists on September 14 1948, in the Saint Vincent de Paul Hospital.
