“War against the Double Alliance would be a disaster”. Ilie Bărbulescu, the “Seara” newspaper, and Romania’s neutrality (1914-1916) Author: Mircea-Cristian GHENGHEA Keywords: First World War, Romania, Ilie Bărbulescu, Germanophiles, neutrality, press, Austria-Hungary. DOI: 10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:61 In the attempt of reconsidering and properly understanding the so-called Germanophile option of a part of the Romanian society during […]
Prelude to genocide: “the Armenian question” and the massacres in the Ottoman Empire Author: Remus TANASĂ Keywords: Armenian genocide, Sublime Porte, Young Turks, Treaty of Berlin. DOI: 10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:49 The fate of Ottoman Armenians was closely linked to the decline of the Ottoman Empire in the last decades of 19th century and the first two […]
Baron Franz Nopcsa: the man who would be king of Albania Author: Robert M. KAPLAN Keywords: Franz Nopcsa, Transylvania, Paleobiology, Palaeontology, Geology, Albania, Habsburg Empire. DOI: 10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:39 Franz Nopcsa, a polymath who was a founder of palaeophysiology, in addition to making great contributions on palaeontology, geography, philology and Balkan ethnography with a special focus […]
Romanian dynastic honours in today’s Republic: a historical perspective Author: Tudor VIȘAN-MIU Keywords: dynastic orders, fons honorum, “Crown of Romania” Order, King Michael. DOI: 10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:27 On 10 May 2008, King Michael, the former sovereign of Romania, created two dynastic medals and awarded them to a group of loyalists during a public ceremony. Since then, […]
The Yeames family and the British General Consulate at the Black Sea ports, 1819-1821 Author: Eusebiu DIACONU Keywords: James Yeames, consulate, Institutional History, Great Britain, Black Sea, Odessa. DOI: 10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:13 The objective of this study is to analyze a fragment of the history of British diplomacy on duty in the territory of the Russian […]
Constantin Negruzzi (1808-1868), “our first great modern prose writer” Author: Iulian PRUTEANU-ISĂCESCU Keywords: Constantin Negruzzi, Moldavia, Iași, Bessarabia, writer. DOI: 10.26424/rjmh.2022.13.1-2:5 Constantin Negruzzi was born in 1808, at the Negruzzi family estate in Trifeștii Vechi, also known as Hermeziu (Iași County). He began his public activity in 1825, as an office clerk at the […]
A cultural approach of Romania’s historical economic criminality. The most renowned cases of corruption affairs in the past two centuries: Strousberg, Škoda, Bechtel Author: Cristian MANOLACHI Keywords: economic criminality, corruption affairs, anti-capitalism, anti-Semitism, international relations, government investments, Eastern Europe. Romania’s great corruption scandals of the last two centuries – Strousberg, Škoda and Bechtel – […]
The Law on Primary and Normal-primary Education from 1924 and Constantin Angelescu and National Liberal Party views Author: Mihai-Daniel BOTEZATU Keywords: Greater Romania, interwar period, Constantin Angelescu, National Liberal Party, politics, law, education, primary education, Parliamentary Debates, post-war Romania. Through this article we propose to analyze the political steps around the process of unification […]
“From this peace one can hope (…)”. The allocution of the Secretary of State Richard von Kühlmann on the peace talks with Romania (Buftea-Bucharest, April/May 1918) Author: Claudiu-Lucian TOPOR Keywords: Germany, diplomacy, peace, parliamentarians, parties, war, annexations, compensations, Bucharest, 1918. At the end of April 1918, Richard von Kühlmann, Secretary of State in the […]
Iancu Alecsandri (1826-1884), “spiritual, active patriot, worthy in all” Author: Iulian PRUTEANU-ISĂCESCU Keywords: Iancu Alecsandri, Vasile Alecsandri, Iași, Moldavia, Paris. Iancu Alecsandri, the youngest child of the vornic Vasile Alecsandri (1792-1854) and of Elena Alecsandri (1800-1842), born Cozoni, “active patriot (…) amateur writer with distinguished and confident taste, worthy in all” (Elena Rădulescu-Pogoneanu), has […]