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Romanian historian and archaeologist
Constantin Daicoviciu
(
Romanian pronunciation:
[konstan?tin
?dajkovit?ju]
; February 22, 1898
[1]
? May 27, 1973) was a
Romanian
historian
and
archaeologist
, professor at the
University of Cluj
, and titular member of the
Romanian Academy
.
He was born in
C?v?ran
, at the time in
Austria-Hungary
, now in Romania. His father Damaschin was a
Romanian Orthodox
religion teacher, while his mother Sofia (
nee
Dr?gan) was the orphaned daughter of the village schoolteacher.
[1]
After finishing primary school in C?v?ran, he attended
the state high school
in
Lugoj
from 1909 to 1916. Following a stint in the
Austro-Hungarian Army
during World War I, he entered the
University of Cluj
in the autumn of 1918.
[2]
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
) was transferred to
Hungary
in the wake of the
Second Vienna Award
of August 1940, Daicoviciu moved to the
University of Sibiu
, where he was dean of the philology department in 1940?41.
[3]
After
World War II
, Daicoviciu returned to Cluj, where he was
rector
(president) of the University of Cluj from 1957 to 1968. From 1948 to 1952 he served as Deputy in the
Great National Assembly
. He was elected
full member of the Romanian Academy
in 1955.
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.
[4]
[5]
He married Lucia Bugnariu in 1931.
[2]
Their son,
Hadrian Daicoviciu
[
ro
]
(1932?1984), was also a historian.
He died in 1973 in Cluj, and was buried in the city's
Hajongard Cemetery
. Since his death, the commune in the
Banat
where he was born in bears his name.
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References
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- Constantin Br?tescu, “Contribu?ii la cunoa?terea datei na?terii, botezului ?i inscrierii in documentele oficiale a academicianului Constantin Daicoviciu”, in
Banatica
, vol. 31-2/2021, pp. 587-93
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