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31 unusual facts about University of Bucharest


Adrian Miroiu

He was Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Bucharest from 1993 to 1995, Dean of the Faculty of Political Science at the National School of Political Science and Public Administration (SNSPA) from 2001 to 2005 and President of the National School of Political Science and Public Administration between 2008-2012.

Adrian Ursu

Born in Slatina, he graduated from the Literature Faculty of the University of Bucharest in 1994, having been expelled from its Journalism Faculty the previous year.

Alexandru Froda

In 1927 he graduated from the University of Sciences (now the Faculty of Mathematics from the University of Bucharest).

Alexandru Ioan Cuza

He founded the University of Iaşi (1860) and the University of Bucharest (1864), and helped develop of a modern, European-style Romanian Army, under a working relationship with France.

Alexandru Mușina

He studied literature at the University of Bucharest in the late 1970s and published poetry in the 1980s beginning with Cinci in 1982.

Ana Cartianu

In 1936, she co-founded the School of English Language and Literature at the University of Bucharest, where she would later be dean of the School of Germanic Languages (1948-1970).

Andrei Oișteanu

Born into a Jewish family in Bucharest, Oișteanu took a post-graduate course in Oriental Studies at the University of Bucharest (lecturers: Sergiu Al-George and Amita Bhose).

Bogdan Suceavă

Suceavă attended the University of Bucharest, where he obtained his undergraduate and Master's degree in mathematics.

Carol-Eduard Novak

For years, Novak, an alumnus of the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest worked as a lawyer and trained after hours.

Constantin Costa-Foru

His father, Gheorghe Costa-Foru (1820–1876), was a noted politician, twice minister, and the first rector of University of Bucharest.

Constantin Lăcătușu

After secondary studies at Petru Rareş High School in Piatra Neamţ, he enrolled at the Faculty of Geology and Geophysics of the University of Bucharest, graduating in 1986.

Elena Bacaloglu

Compared to Romanian other women of the fin de siècle, and even to some men, Elena was highly educated, taking her diplomas at the University of Bucharest Faculty of Letters and the Collège de France.

Elinor Shaffer

She was elected to be a Fellow of the British Academy in 1995 and awarded an Honorary doctorate by the University of Bucharest in 2013.

Florin Diacu

He graduated with a Diploma in Mathematics from the University of Bucharest in 1983.

He also held short-term visiting positions at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (1993), University of Bucharest, Romania (1998), University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil (1999), and The Bernoulli Institute (at EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland (2004).

Gabriel Liiceanu

He graduated from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Philosophy in 1965, and from Faculty of Classical Languages in 1973.

George Nicolescu

In 1972 he gained admission to the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Romance Languages, French-Romanian section.

Grigore Moisil

In 1924 he was admitted at the Constructions Faculty of the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, and also the Mathematics Faculty of the University of Bucharest.

Ion Petrovici

He participated in the summer of 1904, as a member of a student delegation representing the University of Bucharest, at the commemoration of 400 years since Stephen the Great's death, that took place in Suceava, being at that time under Austrian administration.

Irina Negrea

Irina Negrea holds a M.A. at the University of Bucharest, majored in English, French and Latin language and literature.

Mariana Marin

Educated in Bucharest during the time of the Romanian relative cultural freesom of the 1960s, she went on to receive a degree in philology from the University of Bucharest in 1980, starting a grade school teacher career that lasted almost ten years, first in a village along the Danube, then in Bucharest.

Metropolitan Cathedral, Iași

Architect Alexandru Orăscu, rector of the University of Bucharest, designed new plans that added two rows of massive pilasters to the interior, creating a rectangular basilica shape, with a central nave and two smaller side naves.

Ovid S. Crohmălniceanu

After graduating from high school in his home town, he began to study, in 1939, at the Politehnica University of Bucharest, but had to interrupt his studies in 1940.

After the war, he had a series of jobs in the magazines (Contemporanul, Viața Românească, Gazeta literară) and in a publishing house (Editura Didactică și Pedagogică) before beginning to work as an academic, eventually becoming a professor at the Department of Romanian Language and Literature of the University of Bucharest.

Şerban Nichifor

In 1994, he received a Ph.D. in Musicology from National University of Music and from 1990 to 1994, also studied at the Theology Faculty of the University of Bucharest.

Sergiu Celac

In 1961, he graduated from the School of Languages of University of Bucharest.

Silvian Iosifescu

Silvian Iosifescu (21 January 1917 - May 2006) was a literary critic, educator, translator and Romanian literature professor at the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest.

Sorin Stati

He held for a number of years the chair of linguistics at the University of Bucharest; then, due to a conflict with the official regime, which imposed a brutal control over academics, he moved to Italy where he obtained temporary lectureships at the University of Pavia and University of Venice.

Teodor Baconschi

He graduated from the Theological Institute of the University of Bucharest in 1985, received a Diplôme d'études approfondies (Master of Advanced Studies) at the Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne in 1991 and a PhD in Religious Anthropology and Compared History of Religions from the same university in 1994.

Tudor Vianu

In 1915, Vianu became a student at the Department of Philosophy and Law at the University of Bucharest.

University of Bucharest

In 1996, Emil Constantinescu, the then rector of the University of Bucharest, was elected President of Romania, after defeating Ion Iliescu in national presidential elections.


Constantin Rădulescu-Motru

In 1885, he graduated from Carol I High School in Craiova, and subsequently entered the University of Bucharest, applying to both its Faculty of Law and Faculty of Letters.

Cristian Pârvulescu

Born in Ploieşti, Pârvulescu graduated in 1989 from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Philosophy, and went on to finish his education at the Paris-based Institut d'Etudes Politiques and the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques.

Dimitrie Gerota

In 1886, he entered the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bucharest, graduating with an M.D. degree in 1892.

From 1913, he was a professor of surgical anatomy and experimental surgery at the University of Bucharest.

Elena Ceaușescu

Despite leaving grammar school at the age of 14, Ceaușescu graduated from the University of Bucharest with a PhD in polymer chemistry and top in a class of 100 women with the honor of summa cum laude.

Fraţii Buzeşti National College

Colegiul Național Carol I, have been, and still are, the recognized educational paths for the inhabitants of Oltenia--Dolj towards university education; often many alumni of these two best high schools were admitted through very competitive entrance examinations to either the University of Bucharest or the local University of Craiova, with the latter being less than two miles from the buildings of the two high schools.

Nicolae Paulescu

In 1900, Paulescu returned to Romania, where he remained until his death (1931) as Head of the Physiology Department of the University of Bucharest Medical School, as well as a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the St. Vincent de Paul Hospital in Bucharest.

Politehnica metro station

The station also services the Faculty of Journalism of the University of Bucharest and its campus, the Apaca textiles factory and the headquarters of Vodafone Romania.