Constantin Daicoviciu (; March 1, 1898 – May 27, 1973) was a

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historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

and archaeologist, professor at the University of Cluj, and titular member of the

Romanian Academy The Romanian Academy ( ro, Academia Română ) is a cultural forum founded in Bucharest, Romania, in 1866. It covers the scientific, artistic and literary domains. The academy has 181 active members who are elected for life. According to its byl ...

. He was born in Căvăran, at the time in

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, now in Romania. From 1923 to 1968 he was a faculty member of the University of Cluj, advancing to associate professor in 1932 and full professor in 1938. After Northern Transylvania (including the city of

Cluj ; hu, kincses város) , official_name=Cluj-Napoca , native_name= , image_skyline= , subdivision_type1 = County , subdivision_name1 = Cluj County , subdivision_type2 = Status , subdivision_name2 = County seat , settlement_type = City , le ...

) was transferred to

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in the wake of the

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of August 1940, Daicoviciu moved to the University of Sibiu, where he was dean of the philology department in 1940–41.Lavinia Betea, "Partea lor de adevăr", p. 64 After

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, Daicoviciu returned to Cluj, where he was

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(president) of the University of Cluj from 1957 to 1968. From 1948 to 1952 he served as Deputy in the

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. He was elected full member of the Romanian Academy in 1955. ConstantinDaicoviciu

He was the main representative of the Daco-Romanian continuity theory that was actively promoted in Communist Romania as the accepted ethnogenesis theory of the Romanian nation. An 1978 public letter by anonymous Hungarian intellectuals claims that, in his political testament, Daicoviciu withdrew his theses, calling his theory (by the time adopted by the state in education) only hypothetical.''A 62-ek levele: 62 romániai magyar értelmiségi levele román értelmiségiekhez''
1978. máj. 25.Király Ibolya
''62 romániai magyar értelmiségi levele román értelmiségiekhez''
1978. máj. 25. His son, (1932–1984), was also a historian. He died in 1973 in Cluj, and was buried in the city's

Hajongard Cemetery Hajongard cemetery (officially Central Cemetery, in Hungarian language, Hungarian ''Házsongárdi temető'', from German language, German ''Hasengarten''), on Avram Iancu Street, is one of the oldest cemeteries in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, founded in ...

. Since his death, the commune in the

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where he was born in bears his name.

Book

* , Constantin Daicoviciu, ''The Ancient Civilization of Romania'', London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1971. 250 pp.

References

External links

"Clujeanul Constantin Daicoviciu"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Daicoviciu, Constantin 1898 births 1973 deaths People from Caraș-Severin County Babeș-Bolyai University faculty Rectors of Babeș-Bolyai University 20th-century Romanian historians Romanian archaeologists Titular members of the Romanian Academy 20th-century archaeologists Herder Prize recipients Members of the Great National Assembly