Radu Vasile
Radu Vasile was a Romanian politician, historian and poet.
Originally a member of the Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party, Vasile served as the Prime Minister of Romania between April 17, 1998, and December 13, 1999, and was notably confronted with the last Mineriad. Between 2000 and 2004, he was a Senator from the Democratic Party. Vasile published poetry under the pen name Radu Mischiu.Biography
Vasile was born in Sibiu in 1942, and was raised in the Roman Catholic faith. In 1967, he graduated from the Faculty of History at the University of Bucharest. For political reasons, he was barred access to higher education immediately after graduating school.. In 1971 he became a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Economic History at the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies. In 1977 he obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from ASE, and in 1978 he became a Lecturer at this institution.
After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, Vasile was elected Vice Dean of the Faculty of Commerce at ASE, a position he held until 1992. After 1990 he took refresher studies in European Integration at Thessaloniki and Munich. In 1994 he became a Professor at ASE.
He died of colon cancer in Bucharest in 2013, and was buried at the city's Bellu Cemetery.
