The education of Romanian university professors in Western universities

Abstract

From the beginning of the modern era, Western universities played the most important role in preparing the Romanian elite. We cannot talk about a Romanian higher education network before 1864, when the universities of Iasi and Bucharest were set up, to which two more universities were added in 1919 in Cluj and in Cern?uti. Even so, due to the weakness of the Romanian higher education system, for a long time the other Europe was the only reli able and respected source of education for the Romanian youth with higher in tellectual, social and political aspirations. Relevant is the fact that due to the deficiencies of Romanian higher education, as well as the mirage of Western countries, foreign universities held a monopoly in the formation of the local intellectual elite. One can estimate, without exaggeration, that between 186