Constantin Daicoviciu

Constantin Daicoviciu (Romanian pronunciation: [konstanˈtin ˈdajkovit͡ʃju]; March 1, 1898, Căvăran – May 27, 1973, Cluj-Napoca) was a Romanian historian and archaeologist.

For his birthplace, see Constantin Daicoviciu, Caraş-Severin.
Constantin Daicoviciu
Born(1898-03-01)March 1, 1898
Căvăran
DiedMay 27, 1973(1973-05-27) (aged 75)
Cluj
OccupationHistorian, archaeologist

During the dictatorship of the Iron Guard he was dean of the philology department of the Sibiu University. (Lavinia Betea, "Partea lor de adevar", 64)

During Communist Romania, he was rector (president) of Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj, and a member of the Romanian Academy. He was the main representative of the Daco-Romanian continuity theory that has been actively promoted in Communist Romania as the accepted ethnogenesis theory of the Romanian nation. An 1978 public letter by anonymous Hungarian intellectuals claims that, in his political testament, Daicoviciu withdrew his theses, calling his theory (by the time adopted by the state in education) only hypothetical.[1][2]

His son, Hadrian Daicoviciu (1932–1984) was also a historian.

Since his death in 1973, the commune in the Banat where he was born in bears his name.

Book
  • Emil Condurachi, Constantin Daicoviciu, The Ancient Civilization of Romania, London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1971. 250 pp. ISBN 0-214-65256-4

References
  1. A 62-ek levele: 62 romániai magyar értelmiségi levele román értelmiségiekhez, 1978. máj. 25.
  2. Király Ibolya, 62 romániai magyar értelmiségi levele román értelmiségiekhez, 1978. máj. 25.


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