The University of Bucharest ( ro, Universitatea din București), commonly known after its abbreviation UB in Romania, is a public
university
A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United Stat ...
founded in its current form on by a
decree
A decree is a legal proclamation, usually issued by a head of state (such as the president of a republic or a monarch), according to certain procedures (usually established in a constitution). It has the force of law. The particular term used ...
of Prince
Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former
Princely Academy into the current University of Bucharest, making one of the oldest modern Romanian universities. It is one of the five members of the ''Universitaria Consortium'' (the group of elite Romanian universities).
The University of Bucharest offers study programmes in Romanian and English and is classified as an ''advanced research and education university'' by the
Ministry of Education. In the 2012 QS World University Rankings, it was included in the top 700 universities of the world, together with three other Romanian universities.
History
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The University of Bucharest was founded by the Decree no. 765 of 4 July 1864 by
Alexandru Ioan Cuza and is a leading academic centre and a significant point of reference in society.
The University of Bucharest is rich in history and has been actively contributing to the development and modernization of Romanian education, science, and culture since 1694. In 1694
Constantin Brâncoveanu, ruler of
Wallachia
Wallachia or Walachia (; ro, Țara Românească, lit=The Romanian Land' or 'The Romanian Country, ; archaic: ', Romanian Cyrillic alphabet: ) is a historical and geographical region of Romania. It is situated north of the Lower Danube and s ...
, had founded the
Princely Academy in
Bucharest
Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north o ...
with lectures delivered in Greek. In 1776,
Alexander Ypsilantis, ruler of Wallachia, reformed the curriculum of the Princely Academy, where courses of French, Italian, and Latin were now taught. After 1821, the Princely Academy was continued by the
Saint Sava College Saint Sava College was one of the earliest academic institutions in Wallachia, Romania. It was the predecessor to both Saint Sava National College and the University of Bucharest.
History
It was the continuator of the Princely Academy from Bucha ...
. In 1857,
Carol Davila and
Nicolae Crețulescu created the
National School of Medicine and Pharmacy. In 1859, the Faculty of Law was created.
In 1857, the foundation stone of the University Palace in Bucharest was laid.
On 4/16 July 1864, Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza established the University of Bucharest, bringing together the Faculties of Law, Sciences and Letters as one single body. In 1869, the Faculty of Medicine is created through the transformation of the National School of Medicine and Pharmacy. In the following years, new faculties were created: 1884 – the Faculty of Theology; 1906 – the Institute of Geology; 1913 – the Academic Institute for Electrotechnology; 1921 – the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine; 1923 – the Faculty of Pharmacy, 1924 – the
Mina Minovici Institute of Forensic Medicine.
In 1956, student leaders, mainly from this university, planned a peaceful protest against Romania's
Communist regime but were forcibly prevented from carrying it out. (See
Bucharest student movement of 1956).
For a while (in the 1950s and early 1960s), it was called the "C. I. Parhon University", after
Constantin Ion Parhon
Constantin Ion Parhon (; 15 October 1874 – 9 August 1969) was a Romanian neuropsychiatrist, endocrinologist and politician. He was the first head of state of the Romanian People's Republic from 1947 to 1952. Parhon was President of the Physici ...
.
Most of the building is still intact, however during the
bombardments of Bucharest in 1944, the central corpus of the building was heavily damaged and demolished due to
Luftwaffe
The ''Luftwaffe'' () was the aerial-warfare branch of the German '' Wehrmacht'' before and during World War II. Germany's military air arms during World War I, the '' Luftstreitkräfte'' of the Imperial Army and the '' Marine-Fliegerabt ...
bombs, and was only re-constructed in 1969–1971. Other sections were also completed by 1980.
The area around the old University building (the
University Square), adjacent to the
C. A. Rosetti
Constantin Alexandru Rosetti (; 2 June 1816 – 8 April 1885) was a Romanian literary and political leader, born in Bucharest into the princely Rosetti family.
Biography Before 1848
Constantin Alexandru Rosetti was born in Bucharest, the so ...
,
Roman
Roman or Romans most often refers to:
* Rome, the capital city of Italy
* Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*''Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lett ...
,
Kogălniceanu, and
Union squares was the scene of many riots, protests and clashes with the
security forces during the
Romanian Revolution of 1989. During the months of April–June 1990, the University of Bucharest was the centre of
anti-communist
Anti-communism is political and ideological opposition to communism. Organized anti-communism developed after the 1917 October Revolution in the Russian Empire, and it reached global dimensions during the Cold War, when the United States and the ...
protests.
In 1996,
Emil Constantinescu
Emil Constantinescu () (born 19 November 1939) is a Romanian professor and politician, who served as the President of Romania, from 1996 to 2000.
After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, Constantinescu became a founding member and vice president ...
, the then
rector of the University of Bucharest, was elected
President of Romania, after defeating
Ion Iliescu in the
1996 Romanian presidential election.
Organisation
Faculties
![Universitatea Bucuresti - facultatea de drept](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Universitatea_Bucuresti_-_facultatea_de_drept.jpg)
The University of Bucharest has 19 faculties, covering various fields such as natural sciences, humanities, social sciences, and theology:
* The Faculty of Business and Administration
* The Faculty of Biology
* The Faculty of Chemistry
* The Faculty of Law
* The Faculty of Philosophy
* The Faculty of Physics
* The Faculty of Geography
* The Faculty of Geology and Geophysics
* The Faculty of History
* The Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies
* The Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures
* The Faculty of Letters
* The Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
* The Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences
* The Faculty of Sociology and Social Work
* The Faculty of Political Science
* The Faculty of Orthodox Theology
* The Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology
* The Faculty of Baptist Theology
Academic & Research Units
The university has the following five interdisciplinary departments:
* Technology Department
* Distance Learning Department
* UNESCO Department for intercultural and interreligious exchanges
* Department of Education Pedagogy
* Francophone Doctoral School of Social Sciences (french: École Doctorale Francophone de l'Europe Centrale et de Sud-Est)
The university also has a publishing house, different research institutes and research groups (such as the Institute for Political Research, the Institute for Mathematics,
the Center for Byzantine Studies, the
Vasile Pârvan Archeology Seminary, the Center for Nuclear Research, etc.), master and doctorate programmes, and a number of lifelong learning facilities and programmes. It has partnership agreements with over 50 universities in 40 countries, and participates in European programmes such as
ERASMUS
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (; ; English: Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus;''Erasmus'' was his baptismal name, given after St. Erasmus of Formiae. ''Desiderius'' was an adopted additional name, which he used from 1496. The ''Roterodamus'' w ...
, Lingua, Naric, Leonardo da Vinci, UNICA, AMOS, TEMPUS, TEMPRA. It is an accredited
Cisco
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Academy, has
Microsoft
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curriculum, and is accredited by
Red Hat
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Red Hat has become a ...
for its academic programme.
Campus
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The University of Bucharest has a number of buildings throughout Bucharest, so in that respect it does not have a single campus. Its two main buildings are:
* The Old Building, in the University Square (practically right in the center of the city), housing the Faculties of Mathematics and Computer Science, History, Chemistry, Geography, Letters and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.
* The Kogălniceanu Building, near the
Opera House
An opera house is a theatre building used for performances of opera. It usually includes a stage, an orchestra pit, audience seating, and backstage facilities for costumes and building sets.
While some venues are constructed specifically fo ...
, housing the Administrative section and the Faculty of Law.
Other faculties have their own buildings and research facilities, scattered throughout the city, such as:
* The Departments of Germanic, Slavic and Oriental Languages and Literatures, on Pitar Moş Street.
* The Faculty of Physics, in the small town of
Măgurele, situated south of Bucharest.
* The Faculty of Biology, on
Splaiul Independenței.
* The Faculty of Philosophy, on
Splaiul Independenței.
* The Faculty of Psychology, on Șoseaua Panduri.
* The Faculty of Political Science, on Sfântu Ştefan Street.
* The Faculty of Orthodox Theology, on Bibescu Voda Street, near
Unirii Square.
* The Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology, on General Berthelot Street.
* The Faculty of Baptist Theology, on Berzei Street.
The university prints an annual guide for freshmen.
Rankings
In the 2012
QS World University Rankings
''QS World University Rankings'' is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The QS system comprises three parts: the global overall ranking, the subject rankings (which name the world's top universities for th ...
, the University of Bucharest was included in the Top 601-701 universities of the world, together with three other Romanian universities, including
Babeș-Bolyai University in
Cluj-Napoca
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, and
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
The Alexandru Ioan Cuza University ( Romanian: ''Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza"''; acronym: UAIC) is a public university located in Iași, Romania. Founded by an 1860 decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza, under whom the former Academia Mi ...
in
Iași
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.
The University of Bucharest has been awarded the 2000 National Academic Excellence Diploma, and the 2004 National Academic Excellence Medal. All of the degrees and diplomas awarded by the university are internationally recognised.
Affiliations
The University of Bucharest is a member of numerous international organisations and partnerships, including:
* The Association of Universities in European Capitals (UNICA)
* The Network of South-East European Universities
* The European University Association (EUA)
* Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF)
*
Black Sea Universities Network (BSUN)
* Academic Cooperation Association (ACA)
* European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratization (EIUC)
* Eurasian Universities Union (EURAS)
* SEE GRID - South-East Europe GRID - 2005
* Central European Exchange Program for University Studies (CEEPUS)
* ERASMUS NETWORK EUE-NET
* Educational Structure in Europe, Phase IV (TUNING)
* European Physics Education Network (EUPEN)
* Stakeholders Tune European Physics Studies (STEPS)
As part of the on-going ERASMUS programme, the University of Bucharest has approximately 225 Erasmus agreements with European partner universities.
Academic staff, alumni, and rectors
Past and present faculty
*
Ion Barbu
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, also known as Dan Barbilian – mathematician and poet
*
Grigore Brâncuș - linguist
*
Silviu Brucan
Silviu Brucan (born Saul Bruckner; 18 January 1916 – 14 September 2006) was a Romanian Communist politician.
He became a critic of the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu. After the Romanian Revolution, Brucan became a political analyst.
Ear ...
– political analyst and author
*
George Călinescu
George Călinescu (; 19 June 1899, Bucharest – 12 March 1965, Otopeni) was a Romanian literary critic, historian, novelist, academician and journalist, and a writer of classicist and humanist tendencies. He is currently considered one of the mos ...
– writer and literary critic
*
Mircea Cărtărescu
Mircea Cărtărescu (; born 1 June 1956) is a Romanian novelist, poet, short-story writer, literary critic, and essayist.
Biography
Born in Bucharest in 1956, he attended Cantemir Vodă National College during the early 1970s. During his scho ...
– Postmodern writer
*
Emil Constantinescu
Emil Constantinescu () (born 19 November 1939) is a Romanian professor and politician, who served as the President of Romania, from 1996 to 2000.
After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, Constantinescu became a founding member and vice president ...
– 3rd
President of Romania
*
Petru Creția – philologist
*
Neagu Djuvara
Neagu Bunea Djuvara (; 18 August 1916 – 25 January 2018) was a Romanian historian, essayist, philosopher, journalist, novelist, and diplomat.
Biography
Early life
A native of Bucharest, he was descended from an aristocratic Aromanian family ...
– historian
*
Alexandru Graur
Alexandru Graur (; July 9, 1900 – July 9, 1988) was a Romanian linguist.
Born into a Jewish family in Botoșani, Graur graduated from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bucharest and the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris ...
– linguist
*
Aristide Halanay
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– mathematician
*
Spiru Haret – mathematician, astronomer and politician
*
Eugène Ionesco
Eugène Ionesco (; born Eugen Ionescu, ; 26 November 1909 – 28 March 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century. Ionesco inst ...
– Romanian-French playwright widely considered the most important of the 20th century
*
Iorgu Iordan
Iorgu Iordan (; also known as ''Jorgu Jordan'' or ''Iorgu Jordan''; –September 20, 1986) was a Romanian linguist, philologist, diplomat, journalist, and left-wing agrarian, later communist, politician. The author of works on a large variety o ...
– linguist
*
Nicolae Iorga – historian, literary critic, and politician
*
Traian Lalescu
Traian Lalescu (; 12 July 1882 – 15 June 1929) was a Romanian mathematician. His main focus was on integral equations and he contributed to work in the areas of functional equations, trigonometric series, mathematical physics, geometry, mechani ...
– mathematician
*
Gabriel Liiceanu – philosopher
*
Titu Maiorescu – literary critic
*
Nicolae Manolescu – author and literary critic
*
Solomon Marcus – mathematician
*
Adrian Năstase – politician
*
Miron Nicolescu – mathematician
*
Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu – writer and philologist
*
Dimitrie Pompeiu
Dimitrie D. Pompeiu (; – 8 October 1954) was a Romanian mathematician, professor at the University of Bucharest, titular member of the Romanian Academy, and President of the Chamber of Deputies.
Biography
He was born in 1873 in Broscăuți, ...
– mathematician
*
Alexandru Rosetti Alexandru Rosetti (October 20, 1895 – February 27, 1990) was a Romanian linguist, editor, and memoirist.
Born in Bucharest, his parents were Petre Rosetti Bălănescu, a lawyer and landowner, and his wife Zoe (''née'' Cornescu), whose father wro ...
– linguist
*
Ion Th. Simionescu – geologist
*
Simion Stoilow
Simion Stoilow or Stoilov ( – 4 April 1961) was a Romanian mathematician, creator of the Romanian school of complex analysis, and author of over 100 publications.
Biography
He was born in Bucharest, and grew up in Craiova. His father, Colonel S ...
– mathematician
*
Nicolae Titulescu
Nicolae Titulescu (; 4 March 1882 – 17 March 1941) was a Romanian diplomat, at various times government minister, finance and foreign minister, and for two terms president of the General Assembly of the League of Nations (1930–32).
Early ...
– politician
*
Tudor Vianu – literary critic, philosopher
*
Dan-Virgil Voiculescu
Dan-Virgil Voiculescu (born 14 June 1949) is a Romanian professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked in single operator theory, operator K-theory and von Neumann algebras. More recently, he developed free p ...
– mathematician
*
Gheorghe Vrânceanu – mathematician
Alumni
*
Albert-László Barabási – physicist
*
Nineta Barbulescu
Nineta Bărbulescu (born 23 February 1968) is a Romanian career diplomat, and current Ambassador of Romania to Malaysia and (non-resident) Brunei. She served as the Romanian Ambassador to Australia from August 2013 until December 2020. During thes ...
– career diplomat, ambassador
*
Ismat Beg – mathematician
*
Gheorghe I. Cantacuzino – archeologist
*
Mircea Cărtărescu
Mircea Cărtărescu (; born 1 June 1956) is a Romanian novelist, poet, short-story writer, literary critic, and essayist.
Biography
Born in Bucharest in 1956, he attended Cantemir Vodă National College during the early 1970s. During his scho ...
– postmodern writer
*
Zoia Ceaușescu
Zoia Ceaușescu (; 28 February 1949 – 20 November 2006) was a Romanian mathematician, the daughter of Communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena. She was also known as Tovarășa Zoia (comrade Zoia).
Biography
Zoia Ceaușescu s ...
– mathematician, daughter of
Nicolae Ceaușescu
Nicolae Ceaușescu ( , ; – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist politician and dictator. He was the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and the second and last Communist leader of Romania. He ...
*
Emil Cioran
Emil Mihai Cioran (, ; 8 April 1911 – 20 June 1995) was a Romanian philosopher, aphorist and essayist, who published works in both Romanian and French. His work has been noted for its pervasive philosophical pessimism, style, and aphorisms. H ...
– essayist and philosopher
* – mathematician
*
Iosif Constantin Drăgan – businessman, writer, and historian
*
Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade (; – April 22, 1986) was a Romanians, Romanian History of religion, historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who establ ...
– historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the
University of Chicago
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*
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (born Nicolae Georgescu, 4 February 1906 – 30 October 1994) was a Romanian mathematician, statistician and economist. He is best known today for his 1971 ''The Entropy Law and the Economic Process'', in which he argu ...
– economist
*
Viviana Gradinaru – Professor of Neuroscience at
Caltech
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*
Eugen Filotti – diplomat
*
Horia Hulubei
Horia Hulubei (; 15 November 1896 – 22 November 1972) was a Romanian nuclear physicist, known for his contributions to the development of X-ray spectroscopy.
Education and military service
Born in Iași, he graduated in 1915 first in his clas ...
– physicist
*
Grigore Iunian
Grigore Iunian (September 30, 1882 – 1939) was a Romanian left-wing politician and lawyer. A member of the National Liberal Party (PNL) during the 1910s, he rallied with the Peasants' Party (PȚ) after World War I, and followed it into the ...
– politician
*
Traian Lalescu
Traian Lalescu (; 12 July 1882 – 15 June 1929) was a Romanian mathematician. His main focus was on integral equations and he contributed to work in the areas of functional equations, trigonometric series, mathematical physics, geometry, mechani ...
– mathematician
*
Gheorghe Mihoc
Gheorghe Mihoc (July 7, 1906 – December 25, 1981) was a Romanian mathematician and statistician.
He was born in Brăila, the son of Ecaterina and Gheorghe Mihoc, both originally from the Banat. In 1908, his father moved the family to Buchares ...
– mathematician
*
Grigore Moisil
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– mathematician and computer scientist
*
Miron Nicolescu – mathematician
*
Constantin Noe – editor and professor
*
Ștefan Odobleja – scientist, one of the precursors of
cybernetics
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*
Octav Onicescu – mathematician
*
George Emil Palade – cell biologist, 1974 Nobel Prize laureate
*
Nicolae Paulescu
Nicolae Constantin Paulescu (; 30 October 1869 (O.S.) – 17 July 1931) was a Romanian physiologist, professor of medicine, and politician, most famous for his work on diabetes, including patenting ''pancreine'' (a pancreatic extract containing ...
– Romanian physiologist, professor of medicine, missed the Nobel Prize 1923 for discovering insulin
*
Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos – nuclear physicist and
AIDS denialist
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*
Andrei Pleșu
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– philosopher, essayist, journalist, literary and art critic, and politician
*
Dorin N. Poenaru – nuclear physicist
*
Valentin Poénaru
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Life and career
Born in Bucharest, Romania, he di ...
– mathematician
*
Victor Ponta
Victor Viorel Ponta (; born 20 September 1972) is a Romanian jurist and politician, who served as Prime Minister of Romania between his appointment by President Traian Băsescu in May 2012 and his resignation in November 2015. A former member of ...
– former
Prime Minister of Romania
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[Found guilty by the Commission of Ethics of this university of plagiarizing his Ph.D. thesis in Law, see Quirin Schiermeier,]
Conflicting verdicts on Romanian prime minister's plagiarism. Victor Ponta cleared of misconduct by government ethics board, but charges reaffirmed by university
, Nature
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, 20 July 2012
*
Constantin Rădulescu-Motru
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– psychologist and sociologist
*
Mihail Sadoveanu
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– writer
*
George Simion
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– politician and activist
*
Horia Sima
Horia Sima (3 July 1906 – 25 May 1993) was a Romanian fascist politician, best known as the second and last leader of the fascist paramilitary movement known as the Iron Guard (also known as the Legion of the Archangel Michael). Sima was ...
– leader of the
Iron Guard and co-leader of the
National Legionary State
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Ruxandra Sireteanu
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– neuroscientist
*
Bogdan Suceavă – mathematician and writer
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Gheorghe Tașcă
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After a distinguished career as jurist and ...
– economist
*
Șerban Țițeica
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The third and last child of mathematician Gheorghe Țițeica, he was born in Bucharest, where h ...
– physicist
*
Radu Vasile
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Originally a member of the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNȚ-CD), Vasile served as the Prime Minister of Romania between 17 April 1 ...
– politician and poet
*
Dan-Virgil Voiculescu
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– mathematician
Rectors
*
Gheorghe Costaforu
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Life and career
A graduate of Law School at Sorbonne University, Costaforu b ...
(1864–1871)
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Vasile Boerescu
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(1871)
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Ioan Zalomit (1871–1885)
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Alexandru Orăscu
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He was born in Bucharest in 1817 to Serdar (Ottoman rank), serdar Hristea Orăs ...
(1885–1892)
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Titu Maiorescu (1892–1897)
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Grigoriu Ștefănescu (1897–1898)
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Constantin Dimitrescu-Iași (1898–1911)
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Ermil Pangrati (1911–1912)
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Ioan Bogdan Ioan Bogdan may refer to:
* Ioan Bogdan (historian) (1864–1919), Romanian historian and philologist
* Ioan Bogdan (footballer) (born 1956), Romanian footballer
See also
* Ion Bogdan (1915–1992), Romanian footballer and manager
* Ioan
* Bog ...
(1912)
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Thoma Ionescu (1912–1915)
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Ioan Athanasiu (1915–1920)
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Mihail Vlădescu
Mihail C. Vlădescu (25 April 1865 – 1944) was a Romanian botanist and politician.
Born in Câmpulung, his parents Constantin and Bălașa were intellectuals. After being educated by private tutors, he went to Paris for his high school degree b ...
(1920–1923)
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Ermil Pangrati (1923–1929)
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Nicolae Iorga (1929–1932)
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Nicolae Gheorghiu (1932–1936)
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Constantin C. Stoicescu
Constantin is an Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian and Romanian male given name. It can also be a surname.
For a list of notable people called Constantin, see Constantine (name).
See also
* Constantine (name)
* Konstantin
The first name Konsta ...
(1936–1940)
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Petre P. Panaitescu
Petre P. Panaitescu (March 11, 1900 – November 14, 1967) was a Romanian literary historian. A native of Iași, he spent most of his adult life in the national capital Bucharest, where he rose to become a professor at its main university. A ...
(1940–1941)
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Alexandru Otetelișanu (1941)
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Horia Hulubei
Horia Hulubei (; 15 November 1896 – 22 November 1972) was a Romanian nuclear physicist, known for his contributions to the development of X-ray spectroscopy.
Education and military service
Born in Iași, he graduated in 1915 first in his clas ...
(1941–1944)
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Daniel Danielopolu
Daniel Danielopolu (12 April 1884 – 29 April 1955) was a Romanian physiologist, clinician and pharmacologist
Pharmacology is a branch of medicine, biology and pharmaceutical sciences concerned with drug or medication action, where a dru ...
(1944)
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Simion Stoilow
Simion Stoilow or Stoilov ( – 4 April 1961) was a Romanian mathematician, creator of the Romanian school of complex analysis, and author of over 100 publications.
Biography
He was born in Bucharest, and grew up in Craiova. His father, Colonel S ...
(1944–1946)
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Alexandru Rosetti Alexandru Rosetti (October 20, 1895 – February 27, 1990) was a Romanian linguist, editor, and memoirist.
Born in Bucharest, his parents were Petre Rosetti Bălănescu, a lawyer and landowner, and his wife Zoe (''née'' Cornescu), whose father wro ...
(1946–1949)
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Ilie G. Murgulescu (1949–1950)
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Constantin Balmuș (1950–1952)
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Avram Bunaciu (1952–1954)
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Nicolae Sălăgeanu (1954–1957)
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Iorgu Iordan
Iorgu Iordan (; also known as ''Jorgu Jordan'' or ''Iorgu Jordan''; –September 20, 1986) was a Romanian linguist, philologist, diplomat, journalist, and left-wing agrarian, later communist, politician. The author of works on a large variety o ...
(1957–1958)
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Jean Livescu
Jean may refer to:
People
* Jean (female given name)
* Jean (male given name)
* Jean (surname)
Fictional characters
* Jean Grey, a Marvel Comics character
* Jean Valjean, fictional character in novel ''Les Misérables'' and its adaptations
* J ...
(1959–1963)
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Gheorghe Mihoc
Gheorghe Mihoc (July 7, 1906 – December 25, 1981) was a Romanian mathematician and statistician.
He was born in Brăila, the son of Ecaterina and Gheorghe Mihoc, both originally from the Banat. In 1908, his father moved the family to Buchares ...
(1963–1968)
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Jean Livescu
Jean may refer to:
People
* Jean (female given name)
* Jean (male given name)
* Jean (surname)
Fictional characters
* Jean Grey, a Marvel Comics character
* Jean Valjean, fictional character in novel ''Les Misérables'' and its adaptations
* J ...
(1968–1972)
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George Ciucu (1972–1981)
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Ioan-Ioviț Popescu (1981–1988)
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Ion Dodu Bălan (1989)
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Nicolaie D. Cristescu (1990–1992)
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Emil Constantinescu
Emil Constantinescu () (born 19 November 1939) is a Romanian professor and politician, who served as the President of Romania, from 1996 to 2000.
After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, Constantinescu became a founding member and vice president ...
(1992–1996)
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Ioan Mihăilescu (1996–2005)
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Ioan Pânzaru (2005–2012)
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Mircea Dumitru (2012–2019)
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Marian Preda (2019–Present)
See also
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List of modern universities in Europe (1801–1945)
The list of modern universities in Europe (1801–1940) contains all universities that were founded in Europe after the French Revolution and before the end of World War II. Universities are regarded as comprising all institutions of higher ed ...
References
External links
Official website
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Educational institutions established in 1864
1864 establishments in Romania