- Gheorghe I. Brătianu
Gheorghe (George) I. Brătianu (
February 3 1898 – April 23-27 1953) was aRomania n politician and historian.Born in
Ruginoasa , Baia County (nowadays inIaşi County ) toIon I.C. Brătianu and MariaMoruzi , he studied at the National Highschool of Iaşi. In 1916, he joined the Romanian Army as a volunteer, in order to fight inWorld War I . He fought on theMoldavia n front in the summer of 1917, being wounded at Cireşoaia.In 1917, Brătianu began studying Law at the
University of Iaşi , from which he graduated in 1920. After obtaining a Ph.D. degree from the University of Cernăuţi in 1923, he started teaching history at the University of Iaşi. He later pursued his history studies at theUniversity of Paris , from where he obtained a second Ph.D. degree in 1929, under the direction of Ferdinand Lot. In 1940, he became a history professor at theUniversity of Bucharest . In 1942, he was elected to theRomanian Academy .In 1947 he was put under
house arrest by theCommunist authorities. In May, 1950, he was arrested by theSecuritate , and sent toSighet prison without trial. He died there three years later under unknown circumstances.Books
* "Recherches sur le Commerce Génois dans le Mer Noire au XIIIe Siècle", Paris, Paul Geuthner, 1929.
* "Privilèges et franchises municipales dans l'Empire Byzantin", Paris, P. Geuthner; Bucharest, "Cultura naţională", 1936.
* "Les Vénitiens dans la mer Noire au 14e siècle: la politique du sénat en 1332-33 et la notion de la latinité", Bucharest: Impr. Nat., 1939.ee also
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National Liberal Party-Brătianu External links
* [http://www.centrul-cultural.ro/revista-arges-2005-01-articol.php?CodArticol=27 "Ion I.C. Brătianu şi Gheorghe I. Brătianu - Aspecte ale relaţiilor dintre tată şi fiu"] , by Aurel Pentelescu, Revista Argeş, year IV (38), nr. 1 (271), January 2005
* [http://www.cdep.ro/pls/steno/steno.stenograma?ids=5&idm=1,11&idl=2 "Evocarea figurii academicianului Gheorghe I. Brătianu, la 100 de ani de la naştere"] , Nicolae Ionescu, speech at theChamber of Deputies of Romania , February 3, 1998
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