26 Facts About Nicolae Bagdasar

Nicolae Bagdasar entered university teaching at Bucharest in 1928, but did not become a full professor until 1942, when he began teaching the history of philosophy and epistemology at Iasi.

Nicolae Bagdasar spent the remainder of his career in a lower profile, undertaking research in various fields.

Nicolae Bagdasar's mother was illiterate, but valued education and urged all her children to study.

Nicolae Bagdasar then entered the prestigious Gheorghe Rosca Codreanu High School in Barlad, graduating in 1916.

Nicolae Bagdasar began publishing in Neamul Romanesc magazine in 1915, while still a student, signing as Bardescu.

Nicolae Bagdasar found that officers, rather than judging based on circumstances, hid behind regulations, and that the troops' activities were subject to little real oversight.

Nicolae Bagdasar then opted for the history of philosophy, taught by a youthful Mircea Florian, whom he found erudite.

Nicolae Bagdasar took his doctorate in 1926; it was titled Der Begriff des theoretischen Wertes bei Rickert.

Nicolae Bagdasar was able to enter university teaching in 1928: thanks to the insistence of department chairman Constantin Radulescu-Motru, he was named assistant psychotechnician in the experimental psychology laboratory of the University of Bucharest.

Nicolae Bagdasar's acceptance was reluctant, as he did not wish to upset course professor Nae Ionescu, who could attack him in Cuvantul newspaper.

Nicolae Bagdasar taught logic to preparatory-year students and epistemology to students in the other years.

Nicolae Bagdasar retained this post until March 1949, when, following the education reform enacted by the early communist regime the previous year, he was assigned to be a scientific adviser at the Bucharest-based Institute of History and Philosophy.

From 1949 to 1950, Nicolae Bagdasar's work focused on the history of Romanian philosophy; he was then transferred to the history section of the academy's Iasi chapter, where he researched the history of Romanian literature.

Nicolae Bagdasar was somewhat marginalized during the 1950s and experienced a certain degree of poverty.

Nicolae Bagdasar received a salary raise when he came to the national capital to work on Dictionarul explicativ al limbii romane, but continued riding the tramway second class for a year, and bought black bread rather than baguettes.

Nicolae Bagdasar was one of three co-authors of the 1943 Antologie filosofica.

Nicolae Bagdasar wrote nine studies in Societatea de maine review, and others in Revista de filosofie, Minerva, Convorbiri Literare, Arhiva pentru reforma si stiinta sociala and Ethos.

Nicolae Bagdasar's first work in Romania was a study of Edmund Husserl that appeared in Revista de filosofie in 1928; there followed articles on Paul Natorp, Wilhelm Windelband, and Rickert, all previously unknown in Romania.

In terms of philosophical outlook, Nicolae Bagdasar combined Kantianism, neo-Kantianism, and Husserl's phenomenology.

Radulescu-Motru selected Nicolae Bagdasar as editing secretary of Revista de filosofie, which he proceeded to turn into the country's most important philosophy periodical, beginning with its appearance in a new format in March 1928.

Nicolae Bagdasar established the country's first publishing house dedicated to philosophy; its first book was Spinoza's Ethics.

Nicolae Bagdasar founded Tiparul Universitar printing press in 1935; all the society's books were printed there during the next decade.

Nicolae Bagdasar went directly to the minister, pleading that at the postwar peace conference, the Romanian government would be able to argue that cultural figures continued to work even during the war.

Nicolae Bagdasar resigned as director in October 1944, following the coup against Romania's pro-Axis dictator.

Nicolae Bagdasar noted that he detested the Ion Antonescu regime, as well as Adolf Hitler, but wished to do a favor for Petrovici, who knew of his anti-fascist leanings but imposed no conditions.

Nicolae Bagdasar said he wished to avoid frequent drills and letter-censorship duty.