Constantin Daicoviciu


Constantin Daicoviciu was a Romanian historian and archaeologist.
During the dictatorship of the Iron Guard he was dean of the philology department of the Sibiu University.
During Communist Romania, he was rector 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. Before his death, in his political testament, however, Daicoviciu withdrew his theses, calling his theory only hypothetical:
His life work is, however, still taught in the Romanian education system and is still promoted by the highest levels of politicians and ministers in Romania.
His son, Hadrian Daicoviciu was also a historian.
Since his death in 1973, the commune in the Banat where he was born in bears his name.

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