Dumitru Berciu (27 January 1907,
Bobaița,
Mehedinți – 1 July 1998,
Bucharest
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) was a
Romanian
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**Romanians, an ethnic group
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historian and archaeologist, honorary
member of the Romanian Academy.
He conducted research in South-Eastern and Central
Europe
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, focusing on
Geto-Dacians
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,
Thracians
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and
Celts
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. Dumitru Berciu was governor of
National Bank of Romania
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between 1934 and 1944 and the director of the
Romanian Institute of Thracology in Bucharest after 1948. Later in his career, he also focused on the
Neolithic
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and
Chalcolithic
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periods in the
Balkans
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. He is known for his contribution to the development of absolute chronology of prehistoric settlements in the Balkans (
Romania
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and
Bulgaria
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).
He was a modern
Maecenas
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for the
Romanian culture
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. He helped people, supported foundations, journals and institutions. In 1921, Dumitru Berciu founded the
Drobeta-Turnu Severin City Library and donated over 30,000 volumes. He financially supported lifting the
Drobeta-Turnu Severin Palace of Culture, where he installed his library bearing his name to date.
Life
Archaeology
Publications
* Îndrumări în preistorie, 1939
* Contribuții la preistoria Transilvaniei, 1942
* Cercetări și săpături arheologice în județele Turda și Alba, 1945
* Contribuția lui Ion Andriesescu la preistoria Daciei și a sud-estului European, 1945
* Cetatea Alba Iulia, 1962
* Cultura Hamangia, 1966
* Zorile istoriei în Carpați și la Dunăre, 1966
* La izvoarele istoriei, 1967
* O introducere în arheologia preistorică, 1967
* The Roman Empire and its neighbours, 1967
* România înainte de Burebista, 1967
* Unitate și continuitate în istoria poporului român, 1968
* Arta traco-getică, 1969
* Lumea celților, 1970
* Daco-România, 1978
* Buridava dacică, 1981
Bibliography
* ''Arta traco-getică'', Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, 1969
* ''Daco-Romania (Archaeologia mundi)'', Nagel, 1976
About him
* Todorova H. Kamennomednata epoha in Bulgaria. Sofia, 1986.
See also
*
Dacia
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*
List of Romanian archaeologists
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A
* Kamyar Abdi (born 1969) Iranian; Iran, Neolithic to the Bronze Age
* Aziz Ab'Saber (1924–2012) Brazilian; ...
*
Helmet of Coțofenești
The Golden Helmet of Coțofenești (pronounced /kotsofeneʃti/) is a Geto-Dacian helmet dating from the first half of the 4th century BC.
In 1929, a child named Traian Simion uncovered the helmet by chance on the territory of the village of Poian ...
References
Further reading
Some of Dumitru Berciu's books on Amazon.comSome of Dumitru Berciu's books on Amazon UKSome of Dumitru Berciu's books on Google Books
External links
Some of Dumitru Berciu's books on Amazon.comSome of Dumitru Berciu's books on Amazon UKSome of Dumitru Berciu's books on Google BooksDumitru Berciu in ''Dictionar personalitati, meditatii, maxime''
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People from Mehedinți County
Romanian archaeologists
Honorary members of the Romanian Academy
1907 births
1998 deaths
Historiography of Dacia
20th-century Romanian historians
20th-century archaeologists