Key Concepts of Romanian History: Alternative Approaches to Socio-Political Languages

Contributors

Contributors Edda Binder Iijima – studied the history of Southern and Eastern Europe, new historical thought as well as Slavonic, Romanian and Japanese at the Universities of Göttingen, Bucharest and Münster. She teaches courses on the history of South-Eastern Europe and Romanian culture at the Universities of Leipzig and Heidelberg. She is a member of the Volkswagen Foundation project entitled, “Captive States, Divided Societies: Political Institutions of Southeastern Europe in Historical Comparative Perspective.” Her list of publications includes: Die Institutionalisierung der rumänischen Monarchie 1866–1881 (München : R. Oldenbourg, 2003); Stefan der Große – Fürst der Moldau. Symbolfunktion und Bedeutungswandel eines mittelalterlichen Herrschers (with Vasile Dumbravă, Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2005); Die Hohenzollern in Rumänien 1866–1947. Eine monarchische Herrschaftsordnung im europäischen Kontext (with Gerald Volkmer and Heinz-Dietrich Löwe, Köln: Böhlau, 2010). Klaus Bochmann – was born on 8 June 1939 in Dresden, Germany. Between 1957 and 1962 he studied Philology (French, Latin, Spanish and Romanian) at the Universities of Leipzig and Bucharest; he earned his PhD from the University of Leipzig in 1967 with a thesis entitled Nicolae Bălcescu’s Political and Social Thought. Between 1969 and 1972 he was deputy-director in charge of research at the Department of Philology at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg; in 1972 he became an Associate Professor in Romanian Philology and director of the Department of Romance Linguistics at the University of Leipzig; in 1976, he obtained his Habilitation with the thesis The Romanian Socio-Political Vocabulary between 1821 and 1850; in 1978 he be- 490 Contributors came Professor of Romanian Linguistics at the University of Leipzig and, in 1992, Professor of Romance Linguistics (French, Italian and Romanian) at the University of Leipzig; between 1993 and 2005 he was Director of the Center for French Studies (Frankreichzentrum) within the Center of Advanced Studies at the University of Leipzig. He is a founder and director of the Center of Québecois Studies (Québec -Archiv) and director of the Institute of Romance Studies. Since 2004 he has been a consultant professor of the Center of Higher Education Studies and, since 2002, he has been a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences from Leipzig; in 2004, he became doctor honoris causa of the 1 December 1918 University from Alba-Iulia. He is cofounder and president of the Moldova-Institute Leipzig. His list of publications includes: Limba română: istorie, variante, conflicte. O privire din afară (Romanian language: History, variants, conflicts) (Kishinev: Cartdidact Publishing House, 2004); Einführung in die rumänische Sprach- und Literaturgeschichte (with Heinrich Stiehler, Bonn: Romanistischer Verlag, 2010). Ruxandra Demetrescu – is an art historian. She graduated from the School of History and Art Theory at the Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest in 1976. She defended her PhD thesis in 1999 at the University of Arts in Bucharest and focused upon the theory of pure visuality in the artistic context of modernity. She has been teaching at the School of History and Art Theory at the National University of Arts in Bucharest since 1990, and she became the Rector of the same institution in 2006. Between 1999 and 2003 she was director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Berlin. She benefited from numerous research grants and fellowships: the Getty scholarship from the Institute of the Human Sciences, Vienna (1995), GE-NEC fellowship from the New Europe College, 2003–2004, Rector’s guest at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2005. She has been the director of several research projects, among others “Art, Institutions and Art Policies,” the NEC-LINK project, New Europe College 2006, and “Forgotten Museums,” CNCSIS Grant, 2006–2007. Her list of publications includes book-length studies such as Aubrey Beardsley (Bucharest: Meridiane Publishing House, 1985); Artă şi cunoaştere (Art and knowledge ) (Bucharest: Editura Fundaţiei Pro, 2005); La ruinurile unui muzeu (At the site of a museum’s ruins) (Bucharest: Unarte Publishing House, 2009), and articles such as: “Walter Benjamin und die heutige Kunstwissenschaft ,” in Revue roumaine d’Histoire de l’Art, Bucharest, 2006, TOME XLIII, 43–48; “Die Kunstreflexion in Rumänien in der ersten Contributors 491 Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts: Modernität und nationales Bewusstsein,” in New Europe College GE-NEC Program (2006): The Series 2002-2003 and 2003-2004 (New Europe College, Bucharest, 2005); “Die dilematische Stellung der Avantgarde in Rumänien,” in TextImage, Perspectives on the History of Avant-garde...