Vasile Parvan

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Vasile Pârvan (1882-1927)

Vasile Pârvan (born September 28, 1882 in Huruieşti , † June 26, 1927 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian ancient historian , archaeologist , epigraphist , university professor and essayist .

Youth and education

Vasile Pârvan was born in 1882 in the village of Perchiu belonging to the municipality of Huruieşti in the Moldovan district of Bacău . He was the first child of the teacher Andrei Parvan and Aristita Chiriac. He was given the first name Vasile after his uncle, the philosopher and Romanian minister Vasile Conta , who was a cousin of his mother. Pârvan grew up in modest circumstances, attended elementary school in Bereşti and then, from 1893 to 1900, the high school "Gheorge Roşca Codreanu" in Bârlad . He then studied from 1900 to 1904 at the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy at the University of Bucharest , where Nicolae Iorga , Ioan Bogdan and Dimitrie Onciul were among his professors. After completing his studies, further courses followed in Germany, in Jena , Berlin and Breslau , which led to economic and health problems for him, as he had to earn his living as a teacher in Bacau and Iași at the same time . In 1909 in Breslau he received his doctorate cum laude from Conrad Cichorius with a thesis on the nationalities of merchants in the Roman Empire .

Life, work and work

Vasile Parvan (third from left) in the circle of writers and literary critics (from left to right) Ion Scurtu, Ilarie Chendi, Mihail Sadoveanu , Alexandru Lapedatu and Ștefan Octavian Iosif (before 1913)
Caricature Pârvans by Victor Ion Popa (1895–1946)

During his studies, in 1900, Pârvan made his journalism debut at the Noua revistă română (New Romanian Magazine). From 1902 he worked for the Convorbiri literare (literary conversations), from the following year also for Voința națională (national voice), Tribuna poporului (people's stand ), Luceafăru (The Evening Star) and others. In 1906 he joined the Frăția Bunilor Români (Brotherhood of the Romanian Federation) and began to write for their magazines Semănătoru (The Sower) and Neamul românesc (The Romanian Nation). From 1907 he worked for Viața românească (Romanian life) and the Gazeta generală a învățământului (General Gazette for Education).

After receiving his doctorate in 1909, Pârvan became an associate professor, and from 1913 he was appointed professor at the Department of Ancient History, Epigraphy and Greco-Roman Antiquities at the University of Bucharest ( Catedra de Istorie Veche, Epigrafie și Antichități Greco-Romane a Universității din București ). As early as 1910 he was appointed director of the National Museum of Antiquities ( Muzeul Național de Antichități ). He became a member of several academies and scientific societies in Germany and abroad. In 1911 he became a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy , in 1913 a regular member, 1920 to 1923 Vice-President, 1923 to 1927 General Secretary and 1927 President of the Historical Department. The year 1913 saw him as a founding member of the Institutului de Studii Sud-Est Europene (Institute for South-East European Studies) and as a member of the Commission for Historical Monuments ( Comisia Monumentelor Istorice ). In the same year he married Silvia Cristescu, a granddaughter of his former university professor Ioan Bogdan. In 1914 he became a member of the German Archaeological Institute and a member of the Central Committee of the Culture League ( Comitetul central al Ligii Culturale ). From 1914 to 1916 and 1921 to 1926 he directed the archaeological excavations in Histria . During the further course of the First World War, he fled first to Iași , on the Romanian-Russian border, in 1916 , and then to Odessa ( Russia ) in 1917 , where his wife died giving birth to her child.

In 1919 Pârvan became professor at the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, History Section, Universitatea “Regele Ferdinand I” in Cluj , and in 1920 director of the Accademia di Romania in Roma in Rome . His membership in the Society for the Editing of National Culture ( Societatii de editura “Cultura Nationala” ) and the beginning of his activity as a permanent delegate at the Union Académique Internationale also date back to 1920 . In order to solve unresolved research questions related to the history of Dacia, he organized a series of systematic archaeological excavations , especially at sites from the late Iron Age . His investigations in this regard culminated in the publication Getica (1926), which is considered to be his most important work. In 1923 he became secretary of the Romanian PEN Club ( PEN Clubului român ). In 1924 he became a member of the Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia and the Reale Società Romana di Storia Patria , both in Rome. The year 1926 saw him as a founding member of the International Committee for Historical Studies in Geneva and as a visiting professor at the Sorbonne in Paris . In 1927 he became a member of the Academia dei Lincei in Rome.

Passionately absorbed in his work, Vasile Pârvan ignored an appendicitis from which he suffered. By the time he was operated on, it was too late to save his life. Pârvan died at the age of only 44 at the height of his career. He was buried on the Cimitirul Bellu in Bucharest. In his will he left his fortune to the Romanian Academy and his library to the Romanian School in Rome.

Aftermath

Casa Macca of the archaeological institute "Vasile Pârvan" in Bucharest
  • The Archaeological Institute of the University of Bucharest and the Muzeul județean din Bârlad (District Museum Bârlad) were named in honor of Pârvan in recognition of his services.
  • One of the annual awards from the Department of History and Archeology of the Romanian Academy bears his name.
  • The Accademia di Romania in Rome awards the postgraduate and postdoctoral fellowship "Vasile Pârvan".
  • The “Iulian Antonescu” (Museum Complex “Iulian Antonescu”) in Bacau , in cooperation with the National Archives of Bacau, organizes the annual Simpozionul Național “Vasile Pârvan” (National Symposium “Vasile Pârvan”).
  • Pârvan's portrait appeared on a Romanian postage stamp in 1962 and on a postcard in 1963.
  • The poet Nichita Stănescu dedicated his second elegy to Pârvan's work Getica .
  • Numerous schools, high schools, streets, boulevards and marketplaces in various Romanian villages, communities and cities bear Pârvan's name.
  • The Casa memorială "Vasile Pârvan" (Memorial House "Vasile Pârvan") in his birthplace Perchiu has meanwhile run down and closed.

Fonts (selection)

  • Alexandrel Voda si Bogdan Voda. Septe ani din istoria Moldovei (1449-1455) . Minerva, Institut de Arte Grafice si Editura, Bucharest 1904.
  • Un vechiu monument de limba literara româneasca (1639–1668) . Atelierele Grafice Socecu & Company, Bucharest 1904.
  • Relațiile lui Ștefan cel Mare cu Ungaria . Atelierele Grafice Socecu & Company, Bucharest 1905.
  • Salsovia . Institutul de Arte Grafice Carol Göbl, Bucharest 1906.
  • The nationality of the merchants in the Roman Empire. A historical-epigraphic investigation . (Dissertation), Fleischmann, Breslau 1909.
  • M. Aurelius Verus Caesar și L. Aurelius Commodus . Studiu istoric, Bucharest 1909.
  • Contribuții epigrafice la istoria creștinismului Daco-Roman. Atelierele Grafice Socecu & Company, Bucharest 1911.
  • Cetatea tropaeum. Consideratii istorice . Gutenberg, Bucharest 1912, ( digitized version ).
  • Cetatea Ulmetum . (3 volumes), Atelierele Grafice Socecu & Company, Bucharest 1912–1915.
  • Stiri noua din Dacia Malvensis . Librariile Socec si C. Sfetea, Bucharest 1913.
  • Castrul dela Pioana si drumul roman prin Moldova de jos . Librariile Socec si C. Sfetea, Bucharest 1913, ( digitized version ).
  • Histria, IV. Inscriptii gasite în 1914 si 1915 . Analele Academiei Romane, Memoriile Sectiunii Istorice, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 15 (2016), pp. 533–732 as well as panels I to XIV, ( digitized ).
  • Datoria vietii noastre . Lectie inaugurala a Universitatii din Cluj, 2 noiembrie 1919, ( digitized ).
  • Idei si forme istorice . Editura Cartea româneasca, Bucharest 1920.
  • Problems of arheology in România . Bucharest 1921.
  • Sulle origini della civilta romena . Bucharest 1922.
  • Memorials . Bucharest 1923, ( digitized version ).
  • Începuturile vieții romane la gurile Dunarii . Cultura nationala, Bucharest 1923, ( digitized version ).
  • Histria VII. Inscriptii gasite in 1916, 1921 si 1922 . Cultura nationala, Bucharest 1923, ( digitized version ).
  • La Dacie à l'époque celtique . Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 70.70 (1926); Pp. 86-97, ( digitized version ).
  • Dacii la Troia . Extras din Orpheus, Anul II, No. 1 (1926), pp. 1-10, ( digitized version ).
  • Getica. O protoistorie a Daciei . Editura Meridiane, Bucharest 1926.
  • Posthumous: Dacia. Civilizațiile antice din tarile carpato-danubiene . Bucharest 1928, numerous new editions and reprints.

literature

  • Jan Filip : Encyclopedic manual on the prehistory and early history of Europe. Volume 2. Kolhammer, Stuttgart 1966. p. 1002.
  • Alina Butnaru: Vasile Pârvan. Un adolescent la Bârlad / Vasile Pârvan. An adolescent at Bârlad . In: Muzeul "Vasile Pârvan" (ed.): Acta Musei Tutovensis , 3, Bârlad 2008, ISSN  1842-2373 , pp. 172-179.
  • Emil Condurachi: Un grand archeologue et historien roumain de l'antiquite. Vasile Pârvan (1882-1927) . In: Revue Roumaine d'Histoire No. 2/1965, pp. 183-205.
  • Oltea Rașcanu-Gramaticu: Vasile Pârvan și periplul german . In: argidava - Revista de istorie 7, 2008, pp. 19-27.
  • Alexandru Zub: Pe urmele lui Vasile Pârvan . Editura Sport-Turism, 1983.

Web links

Commons : Vasile Pârvan  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mircea Gheorghe: Vasile Pârvan, fondatorul arheologiei româneşti on the website paginiromanesti.ca of July 9, 2015 (Romanian), accessed on April 3, 2019.
  2. ↑ Alina Butnaru: Vasile Pârvan. Un adolescent la Bârlad / Vasile Pârvan. An adolescent at Bârlad . In: Muzeul “Vasile Pârvan” (ed.): Acta Musei Tutovensis , 3, Bârlad 2008, ISSN  1842-2373 , pp. 172-179.
  3. ↑ Oltea Răscanu-Gramaticu: Vasile Pârvan şi periplul German . Zargidava - Revista de istorie, VII (2008), pp. 19-27.
  4. ↑ Vasile Pârvan: The nationality of the merchants in the Roman Empire. A historical-epigraphic investigation . (Dissertation), Fleischmann, Breslau 1909.
  5. ↑ Mircea Gheorghe: Vasile Pârvan, fondatorul arheologiei româneşti on the website paginiromanesti.ca of July 9, 2015 (Romanian), accessed on April 3, 2019.
  6. ↑ a b Alexandru Zub: Pe urmele lui Vasile Pârvan . Editura Sport-Turism, 1983.
  7. ↑ Digital copies of the Noua revistă română , year 1900 (Romanian), accessed on April 4, 2019.
  8. ↑ Digital copies of Voinţa naţională , year 1904 (Romanian), accessed on April 4, 2019.
  9. ↑ digital copies of Tribuna poporului , vintages 1897-1912 (Romanian), accessed on April 4 of 2019.
  10. ↑ On the history of Viața Românească on the website of the magazine (Romanian), accessed on April 4, 2019.
  11. ↑ Ioan Botis: Mari personalitaţi din istoria romanilor. Vasile Pârvan in the online edition of Gazeta de Maramures of June 22, 2018 (Romanian), accessed on April 3, 2019.
  12. ↑ Institutului de Studii Sud-Est Europene , official website of the institute (Romanian), accessed on April 3, 2019.
  13. ↑ Comisia Națională a Monumentelor Istorice on the website of the Ministry of Culture and National Identity ( Ministerul Culturii și Identității Naționale ), (Romanian), accessed on April 3, 2019.
  14. ^ Vasile Parvan: Getica. O protoistorie a Daciei . Editura Meridiane, Bucharest 1926.
  15. ^ Reale Società Romana di Storia Patria , website of the society (Italian), accessed on April 3, 2019.
  16. ^ Emil Condurachi: Un grand archeologue et historien roumain de l'antiquite. Vasile Pârvan (1882-1927) . In: Revue Roumaine d'Histoire No. 2/1965, pp. 183-205.
  17. ↑ Institutul de Arheologie "Vasile Parvan" , official website of the institute (Romanian), accessed on April 4, 2019.
  18. ↑ Mouseion Vasile Pârvan , official website of the Vasile Pârvan Museum (Romanian), accessed on April 4, 2019.
  19. ↑ Complexul Muzeal "Iulian Antonescu , official website of the museum complex (Romanian), accessed on April 4, 2019.
  20. ↑ Nichita Stănescu: Elegia a doua. Getica , from the poet's website (Romanian), accessed April 4, 2019.
  21. ↑ Digitized copies of various Parvan’s writings on the website of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Romanian), accessed on April 4, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Parvan, Vasile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian ancient historian, archaeologist, epigraphist, university professor and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Huruieşti
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1927
Place of death Bucharest