Traian Bratu
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Traian Bratu (October 25, 1875 – July 21, 1940) was an
In 1907, he became a professor at the
Biography
Origins and academic pursuits
Born in Rășinari, Sibiu County, in the Mărginimea Sibiului area of Transylvania, at the time part of Austria-Hungary, he grew up in a peasant family.[1] He attended primary school in his native village, followed by the Hungarian-language state high school in Sibiu.[2] Right after finishing high school in 1894,[3] Bratu left for the Romanian Old Kingdom, without emigration papers.[4] There, he studied literature at the University of Bucharest and graduated in 1898.[1] He then taught German at a gymnasium and a seminary in Râmnicu Vâlcea between 1900 and 1902.[2][5]
Bratu's presence was attested in the village of
At first, his academic interest tended toward literature; a volume on German language and literature in Romanian universities appeared in 1908. He was very active over the next few years, publishing a study of classical German poetry in 1909 and an analysis of
Wartime service and university administration
Although an avowed admirer of Germany, Bratu was a second lieutenant in the
Following the creation of
Political involvement and later years
Bratu was a member of the National Peasants' Party (PNȚ) from March 1928.[7][1] He represented his university in the Senate of Romania, serving as the body's president from 1928 to 1931.[11] He held this office following the landslide PNȚ victory in the 1928 election, which produced the first Parliament led by that party.[14] In 1932, he was again elected senator, this time representing Baia County.[15] He opposed political extremism, particularly as embodied by the Iron Guard. This led to two attempts on his life, in 1936 and 1937;[7] the latter attack left him with an earlobe cut off.[11]
He died of lung cancer in Bucharest, although official historiography under the
References
- ^ a b c d e f Mănucă, Dan (1992). "Traian Bratu în corespondenţă cu germanistul Theodor Frings" (PDF). Anuar de lingvistică şi istorie literară (in Romanian) (XXXIII): 167–174. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
- ^ a b c Mamina, p. 380
- ^ a b c d Boia, pp. 198–199
- ^ Buruiană, p. 276
- ^ a b (in Romanian) Anuarul Universității Mihăilene din Iași, 1930-1935 Archived 2013-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, pp. 208–209. Editura Universității Mihăilene, Iași, 1936
- ^ Nicolae Moga, "Societatea de cultură Voineasa — 1906", in Cultura Vâlceană, Vol. XIII, Issue 178, June 2021, pp. 6–7
- ^ a b c d Nastasă, pp. 16–17
- ^ (in Romanian) "Short history", at the German Studies Department site of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
- ^ Botoșineanu, p. 225
- ^ Botoșineanu, p. 223
- ^ a b c Livezeanu, p. 14
- ^ Botoșineanu, p. 224
- ^ Goșu, p. 195
- ^ Stan, p. 185
- ^ Giurescu, p. 84
- ^ Bozgan, p. 326; Hudiță, p. 251
Notes
- ISBN 978-973-50-2635-6
- (in Romanian) Cătălin Botoșineanu, "Recrutarea corpului profesoral al universității din Iași la începutul epocii interbelice. Cazul Petre Andrei", in Anuarul Institutului de Istorie "G. Barițiu" din Cluj-Napoca, tom. XLVII, 2008, pp. 219–235
- Ovidiu Bozgan, "Traiectorii universitare: de la stânga interbelică la comunism", in ISBN 978-973-56-9209-4
- Ovidiu Buruiană, "Partidul Național Liberal în alegerile parlamentare din anul 1928", in Analele Științifice ale Universității Al. I. Cuza din Iași (serie nouă). Istorie, tomul LI, 2005, pp. 267–294
- Armand Goșu, Despre Holocaust și comunism, in Anuarul Institutului Român de Istorie Recentă, vol. I, Editura Polirom, Bucharest, 2003, 978-973-68-1205-7
- ISBN 978-973-78-3939-8
- ISBN 978-973-58-6113-1
- ISBN 0-8014-8688-2
- Ion Mamina, Monarhia constituțională în România: enciclopedie politică, 1866–1938, Editura Enciclopedică, 2000, ISBN 978-973-45-0315-5
- Lucian Nastasă, Antisemitismul universitar în România (1919–1939), Editura Institutului pentru Studierea Problemelor Minorităților Naționale, Cluj-Napoca, 2011, ISBN 978-6-06-927445-3
- Apostol Stan, Iuliu Maniu, Editura Saeculum I.O., 1997, ISBN 978-973-92-1161-1