Dumitru Berciu (27 January 1907, Bobaița, Mehedinți – 1 July 1998,

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) was a

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historian and archaeologist, honorary member of the Romanian Academy. He conducted research in South-Eastern and Central

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, focusing on

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and

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. Dumitru Berciu was governor of

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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

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and

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periods in the

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. He is known for his contribution to the development of absolute chronology of prehistoric settlements in the Balkans (

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). He was a modern

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for the

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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.

References

External links

Some of Dumitru Berciu's books on Amazon.com

Some of Dumitru Berciu's books on Amazon UK

Some of Dumitru Berciu's books on Google Books

Dumitru Berciu in ''Dictionar personalitati, meditatii, maxime''

{{DEFAULTSORT:Berciu, Dumitru 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