Share This
University of Bucharest
The University of Bucharest (Romanian: Universitatea din Bucureşti), in Romania, is a university founded in 1864 by decree of Prince Alexander John Cuza to convert the former Saint Sava Academy into the current University of Bucharest.
In 1694 Constantin Brâncoveanu, ruler of Wallachia, had founded...
Learn more about University of Bucharest »
Add More Topics
Save this view to a base, or just for yourself.
about 100 Education topics matching:
Filter this Collection
Traian Lalescu
Traian Lalescu (12 July 1882, Bucharest–15 June 1929, Bucharest) was a Romanian mathematician. His main focus was on integral equations and he contributed to work in the areas of functional equations, trigonometric series, mathematical physics,...
Dimitrie Pompeiu
Dimitrie Pompeiu (October 4 [O.S. September 22] 1873, Broscǎuţi, Botoşani County, Romania – October 8, 1954, Bucharest) was a well-known Romanian mathematician.
After studying in Dorohoi and Bucharest, he went to France, where he studied mathematics...
Zoia Ceauşescu
Zoia Ceauşescu (March 1, 1949 – November 20, 2006) was a Romanian mathematician, the daughter of Communist leader Nicolae and his wife, Elena Ceauşescu.
She did her studies at the University of Bucharest. After completing her Ph.D. in mathematics,...
Major/Field Of Study:
Degree:
Grigore Iunian
Grigore Iunian (September 30, 1882—1939) was a Romanian left-wing politician and lawyer. A member of the National Liberal Party (PNL) during the 1910s, he rallied with the Peasants' Party (PŢ) after World War I, and followed it into the National...
Dan-Virgil Voiculescu
Dan-Virgil Voiculescu (b. 1949 in Bucharest, Romania) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked in single operator theory, operator K-theory and von Neumann algebras. More recently, he developed free...
Constantin Rădulescu-Motru
Constantin Rădulescu-Motru (born Constantin Rădulescu, he added the surname Motru in 1892; February 15, 1868–March 6, 1957) was a Romanian philosopher, psychologist, sociologist, logician, academic, dramatist, as well as centre-left nationalist...
Iosif Constantin Drăgan
Iosif Constantin Drăgan (June 20, 1917 – August 21, 2008) was a Romanian and Italian businessman, writer and historian. In 2005, he was the second wealthiest Romanian, according to the Romanian financial magazine Capital, having a wealth estimated...
Solomon Marcus
Solomon Marcus (b. March 1, 1925) is a Romanian mathematician, member of the Mathematical Section of the Romanian Academy (a full member of the latter since 2001) and Emeritus Professor of the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Mathematics. His...
Spiru Haret
Spiru C. Haret (February 15, 1851, Iaşi – 17 December 1912) was a Romanian-Armenian mathematician, astronomer and politician. He made a fundamental contribution to the n-body problem in celestial mechanics by proving that using a third degree...
Emil Constantinescu
Emil Constantinescu (Romanian pronunciation: [eˈmil konstantiˈnesku]; born November 19, 1939 in Tighina, currently in the Republic of Moldova) was President of Romania from 1996 to 2000.
He graduated from the law school of the University of...
Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈmirt͡ʃe̯a eliˈade]; March 13 [O.S. February 28] 1907 – April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading...
Panait Cerna
Panait Cerna (Bulgarian: Панайот Черна, Panayot Cherna, born Panayot Stanchov or Panait Staciov; August 26 or September 25, 1881–March 26, 1913) was a Romanian poet, philosopher, literary critic and translator. A native speaker of Bulgarian, Cerna...
Alexandru Muşina
Alexandru Muşina (July 1, 1954 in Sibiu) is a Romanian poet , essayist, and editor.
He studied literature at the University of Bucharest in the late 1970s and published poetry in the 1980s beginning with Cinci in 1982.
He obtained a doctorate in...
George Alboiu
George Alboiu (July 6 1944 in Roşeţi, Ialomiţa) is a Romanian poet.
Alboiu studied literature at the University of Bucharest between 1963 and 1967. His first poem, Luceafărul, was written in 1964 while at university but his first published work was...
Remus Cernea
Remus Cernea (Romanian pronunciation: ['re.mus 'ʧer.nea]; born June 25, 1974) is a Romanian activist against discrimination based on faith and religion, an advocate of the separation of church and state and the founder of the Solidarity for Freedom...
Alexandru Mironov
Alexandru Mironov (born January 27, 1942) is a Romanian science-fiction writer, journalist, and left-wing politician. A former member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and Counsel for President Ion Iliescu, Mironov was Minister for Youth and...
Peter Hammer
Peter L. Hammer (December 23, 1936 - December 27, 2006) was an American mathematician native to Romania. He contributed to the fields of operations research and applied discrete mathematics through the study of pseudo-Boolean functions and their...
Bogdan Mischiu
Bogdan Mischiu is a former Romanian anti-Communist dissident, currently residing in the United States.
Mischiu was born in 1957 in Mediaş, Sibiu County. He was arrested in 1979 for being a member of the forbidden organization Sindicatul Liber al...
Andrei Oişteanu
Andrei Oişteanu (born September 18, 1948) is a Romanian historian of religions and mentalities, ethnologist, cultural anthropologist, literary critic and novelist. Specialized in the history of religions and mentalities, he is also noted for his...
Iordan Chimet
Iordan Chimet (November 18, 1924 – May 23, 2006) was a Romanian poet, children's writer and essayist, whose work was inspired by Surrealism and Onirism. He is also known as a memoirist, theater, art and film critic, book publisher and translator....
Alexandru Graur
Alexandru Graur (born Alter Brauer; July 9, 1900–July 9, 1988) was a noted Romanian linguist.
Born into a Jewish family in Botoşani, Graur graduated from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bucharest and the École Pratique des Hautes Études...
Daniel Barbu
Daniel Barbu (b. May 21, 1957) is a Romanian political scientist, publisher, essayist, journalist, and professor at the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Political Science. The head of the Research Institute at the University of Bucharest, and...
Dorin Tudoran
Dorin Tudoran (born June 30, 1945) is a Romanian poet, essayist, journalist, and dissident. A resident of the United States since 1985, he has authored more than fifteen books of poetry, essays, and interviews.
Born in Timişoara, he attended the...
Cornel Chiriac
Cornel Chiriac (May 8, 1941, Uspenkova, Bessarabia, Soviet Union — March 4, 1975, Munich) was a Romanian journalist, radio producer, record producer, journalist and jazz drummer.
He went to high school in Piteşti and graduated from the University of...
Octavian Paler
Octavian Paler (July 2, 1926–May 7, 2007) was a Romanian writer, journalist, politician in Communist Romania, and civil society activist in post-1989 Romania.
Octavian Paler was born in Lisa, Braşov County.
He was educated at Spiru Haret High School...
Doru Viorel Ursu
Doru Viorel Ursu (born March 1, 1953) is a Romanian politician and lawyer. A member of the National Salvation Front (FSN), he was Minister of the Interior in the Petre Roman cabinets, carrying his mandate between the Mineriads of 1990 and 1991.
Born...
Delia Grigore
Delia Grigore (Romani: Deliya Grigore; born February 7, 1972 in Galaţi) is a Romanian Romani writer, philologist, academic and Romani rights activist.
She grew up under the Romanian communist regime, when the Roma were not recognized as an ethnic...
Silvia Cambir
Silvia Cambir (born January 24, 1924) is a Romanian Expressionist painter, portraitist, and book illustrator.
Born in Hanul Conache, Galaţi County, Cambir studied at the University of Bucharest Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, as well as at the...
Teofil Oroian
Teofil Oroian (born September 20, 1947) is a Romanian Army officer and military historian.
He was born in Chimitelnic (today Cipăieni), in Mureş County. He graduated from the Ştefan cel Mare Military High-School in Câmpulung Moldovenesc in 1966 and...
Duiliu Zamfirescu
Duiliu Zamfirescu (October 30, 1858 – June 3, 1922) was a Romanian novelist, poet, short story writer, lawyer, nationalist politician, journalist, diplomat and memoirist. In 1909, he was elected a member of the Romanian Academy, and, for a while in...
Constantin Titel Petrescu
Constantin Titel Petrescu (February 5, 1888 – September 2, 1957) was a Romanian politician and lawyer. He was the leader of the Romanian Social Democratic Party.
He was born in Craiova, the son of an employee of the National Bank in Bucharest. After...
Marius Oprea
Marius Oprea (born 1964, Târgovişte) is a Romanian historian (specializing in recent history), poet and essayist.
He studied history at the University of Bucharest, and earned a Ph.D. with a thesis on the role and evolution of the Communist-era...
Dimitrie Gerota
Dimitrie D. Gerota (pronounced dʒerota) (17 July 1867 – 3 March 1939), Romanian anatomist, physician, radiologist, urologist, and an associated member of the Romanian Academy from 1916.
He was born in Craiova, the son of a priest, Dimitrie...
Constantin Lăcătuşu
Constantin "Ticu" Lăcătuşu (b. February 21, 1961 in Piatra Neamţ) is a Romanian mountain climber. He is the first Romanian ever to reach Mount Everest, which he did on May 17, 1995, and the first to have completed the Seven Summits, which he did on...
Liviu Negoiţă
Liviu Gheorghe "Livache" Negoiţă (born March 22, 1962) is a Romanian politician and lawyer, member of the Democratic Liberal Party and the mayor of Bucharest's Sector 3 since 2004.
Born in Brăila, Negoiţă completed his law degree in 1990, at...
Adina Vălean
Adina Ioana Vălean (born February 16, 1968) is a Romanian politician and social activist. A member of the National Liberal Party (PNL), part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies on the...
Titus Corlăţean
Titus Corlăţean (born January 11, 1968) is a Romanian politician and diplomat. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), part of the Party of European Socialists, and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for Braşov County in the 2004...
Adrian Cioroianu
Adrian Mihai Cioroianu (born January 5, 1967) is a Romanian historian, politician, journalist, and essayist. A lecturer for the History Department at the University of Bucharest, he is the author of several books dealing with Romanian history (and...
Alexandru Athanasiu
Alexandru Athanasiu (born January 1, 1955) is a Romanian politician and jurist. A former leader of the Romanian Social Democratic Party (PSDR), he is a member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) since 2001. Athanasiu served as Prime Minister on an...
Lucian Boia
Lucian Boia (born 1 February 1944) is a Romanian historian, known especially for his works debunking Romanian nationalism and Communism.
Virgil Gheorghiu
Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu (September 15, 1916 – June 22, 1992, Paris, France) was a Romanian writer, best known for his 1949 novel, The 25th Hour.
Virgil Gheorghiu was born in Valea Albă, a village in Războieni Commune, Neamţ County, in Moldavia....
Miron Constantinescu
Miron Constantinescu (December 13, 1917 - 1974) was a Romanian communist politician, a leading member of the Romanian Communist Party (PCR, known as PMR for a period of his lifetime), as well as a Marxist sociologist, historian, academic, and...
Tudor Muşatescu
Tudor Muşatescu (February 22, 1903 – November 4, 1970) was a Romanian playwright and short story writer, best known for his humorous prose.
Muşatescu was born in Câmpulung to a family of middle-class intellectuals — his father was a lawyer while his...
Valentin Poénaru
Valentin Poénaru is a Professor of Mathematics at Université de Paris-Sud. He specializes in low-dimensional topology.
Born in Romania, he did his undergraduate studies at the University of Bucharest. In 1962, he was an invited speaker at the...
Stelian Tănase
Stelian Tănase (born February 17, 1952) is a Romanian writer, historian, journalist, political analyst, and talk show host. Having briefly engaged in politics during the early 1990s, after the fall of the Communist regime, he has remained a leading...
Nicolae Petrescu-Comnen
Nicolae Petrescu-Comnen (Gallicized as Petrescu-Comnène or Petresco-Comnène, born Nicolae Petrescu; 1881-December 8, 1958) was a Romanian diplomat, politician, and humanitarian, noted for his role in interwar European politics and his support for...
Grigore Preoteasa
Grigore Preoteasa (August 25, 1915-November 4, 1957) was a Romanian communist activist, journalist, and politician, who served as Communist Romania's Minister of Foreign Affairs between October 4, 1955 and the time of his death.
Born in Bucharest as...
Virgil Nemoianu
Virgil Nemoianu (born March 12, 1940) is a Romanian-American essayist, literary critic, and philosopher of culture. He is generally described as a specialist in “comparative literature” but this is a somewhat limiting label, only partially covering...
Dănuţ Marcu
Dănuţ Marcu (born January 11, 1952, Bucharest) is a Romanian mathematician and computer scientist, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Bucharest in 1981. He claims to have authored more than 398 scientific papers.
Marcu is frequently...
Gabriela Adameşteanu
Gabriela Adameşteanu (born April 2, 1942) is a Romanian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and translator. The author of the celebrated novels The Equal Way of Every Day (1975) and Wasted Morning (1983), she is also known as an...
Grigore Cugler
Grigore Cugler (Spanish: Gregório or Gregori Cugler; also known under the pen name Apunake; April 30 [O.S. April 7] 1903-September 30, 1972) was a Romanian avant-garde short story writer, poet and humorist. Also noted as a graphic artist, composer...
Haig Acterian
Haig Acterian (also known under his pen name Mihail; March 5, 1904–c. August 8, 1943) was a Romanian film and theater director, critic, dramatist, poet, journalist, and fascist political activist. Alongside Mihail Sebastian and Camil Petrescu, he is...
Ion Petrovici
Ion Petrovici (June 2/14 1882, Tecuci – February 17, 1972, Bucharest), Romanian philosopher, essayist, memorialist, writer, orator, and politician, professor at University of Iaşi, member of the Romanian Academy, former Ministry of National...
Zaharia Stancu
Zaharia Stancu (October 7, 1902 - December 5, 1974) was a Romanian prose writer, novelist, poet, and philosopher.
Stancu was born in 1902 in Salcia, a village in Teleorman County, Romania on the Bărăgan Plain. After leaving school at the age of...
Victor Neumann
Victor Neumann (born October 28, 1953) is a Romanian historian, political analyst, and professor at the West University in Timişoara. He is a well-known specialist in the recent cultural and intellectual histories of Eastern and Central Europe ...
Henri H. Stahl
Henri H. Stahl (also known as Henry H. Stahl or H. H. Stahl; 1901—September 9, 1991) was a Romanian Marxist cultural anthropologist, ethnographer, sociologist, and social historian.
Born in Bucharest to a family of Alsatian and French-Swiss ancestry...
Varujan Vosganian
Varujan Vosganian (born 25 July 1958) is a Romanian politician, economist, essayist and poet. A member of the National Liberal Party, Vosganian was Romania's Minister of Economy and Commerce in the Tăriceanu cabinet.
Born in Craiova to a family of...
Oskar Pastior
Oskar Pastior (October 20, 1927 – October 4, 2006) was Romanian-born German poet and translator. He was the only German member of Oulipo.
Born into a Transylvanian Saxon family in Sibiu (Hermannstadt), he was deported in 1945 to the Gulag by Soviet...
Teodor Meleşcanu
Teodor Viorel Meleşcanu (b. March 10, 1941) is a Romanian politician, diplomat and jurist. Currently serving as Minister of Defense and senator for the National Liberal Party (PNL), he was Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1992 and 1996. He was...
Mitiţă Constantinescu
Mitiţă Constantinescu (October 20, 1890—1946) was a Romanian economist and liberal politician. He was an advocate of industrialization and a degree of dirigisme.
Born in Bucharest, he graduated from the Gheorghe Lazăr High School and from the...
