Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol

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Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol (March 23, 1847 – February 27, 1920) was a Romanian scholar, economist, philosopher, historian, professor, sociologist, and author. Among his many major accomplishments, he is credited with being the Romanian historian credited with authoring the first major synthesis of the history of the Romanian people.

Born in Iaşi, where he graduated high school, he went on to Vienna in 1870 to study law and then to Berlin, where he studied philosophy. In 1868, he made his debut in Convorbiri Literare with a series of studies on Romanian traditions and on Romanian institutions.

At first, Xenopol served as a prosecutor in Iaşi, but he later decided to dedicate himself to the study of history. Starting in 1883, he was a professor of universal history at the University of Iaşi. He was named a member of the Romanian Academy in 1895.

Xenopol, a noted anti-Semite and collaborator of A. C. Cuza, is also considered to be one of the sources of inspiration for the Iron Guard, according to the final report of the International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania (available through the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum).

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  • Despre învăţământul şcolar în genere şi în deosebi despre acel al istoriei, Studii economice (1879)
  • Istoria românilor (1879)
  • Războiul dintre Ruşi şi Turci, 2 vols. (1880)
  • Teoria lui Rösler (1884)
  • Memoriu asupra învăţământului superior în Moldova (1885)
  • Edutes historiques sur les peuples roumains (1887)
  • Istoria românilor din Dacia-Traiană, 6 vols. (1888-1893)
  • Mihail Kogălniceanu (1895)
  • Industria mătăsei (1896)

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