Nicolae Iorga

Nicolae Iorga was a Romanian historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, poet and playwright. Cofounder of the Democratic Nationalist Party , he served as a member of Parliament, President of the Deputies Assembly and Senate, cabinet minister and briefly as Prime Minister. A child prodigy, polymath and polyglot, Iorga produced an unusually large body of scholarly works, consecrating his international reputation as a medievalist, Byzantinist, Latinist, Slavist, art historian and philosopher of history. Holding teaching positions at the University of Bucharest, the University of Paris and several other academic institutions, Iorga was founder of the International Congress of Byzantine Studies and the Institute of SouthEast European Studies . His activity also included the transformation of Vlenii de Munte town into a cultural and academic center.

Nicolae Iorga was a native of Botoani, and is generally believed to have been born on January 17, 1871 . His father Nicu Iorga and mother Zulnia belonged to the Romanian Orthodox Church. Details on the familys more distant origins remain uncertain Iorga was widely reputed to be of partial GreekRomanian descent the rumor, still credited by some commentators, was rejected by the historian. In his own account My father was from a family of Romanian traders from Botoani, who were later received into the boyar class, while my mother is the daughter of Romanian writer Elena Drghici, the niece of chronicler Manolache Drghici . The name Arghiropol notwithstanding, my maternal grandfather from a family that moved in from Bessarabia. Elsewhere, however, he acknowledged that the Arghiropols were possibly Byzantine Greeks. Iorga credited the fivegenerationboyar status, received from his fathers side, and the old boyar roots of his mother , with having turned him into a political man. His para

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