Proceedings of the 18th International Academic Conference, London

TEODOR NEȘ ”PEOPLE FROM BIHOR COUNTY”

IOAN FABIAN

Abstract:

The literary and cultural history of the Crișana Province discreetly preserves, in just a few autobiographical sources and a range of documents which have been passed down to us as an important part of our (Romanian) cultural heritage, the outstanding personality of a pioneer of Romanian journalism and of a great visionary of universal pedagogy, the writer, scholar and teacher Teodor Neș (1891-1975). The first monograph of Crișana Province ”People from Bihor County, 1848-1918” (published in 1937) bears the signature of Bihor County teacher, Teodor Neș. Teodor Neș was a son of Bihor County by birth. He was an intellectual, an educator and a scholar who, starting from very humble social origins but achieving a much higher social position, made his presence felt in the tumultuous years between World War I and World War II in Transylvania and Romania. Through his efforts, he wanted to bring together in the pages of a book (as a kind of record or witness), important figures and inspirational personalities from a key historical period of Bihor County: writers, freedom fighters, founders of national publications, priests and bishops, teachers, and pedagogues, and so on. He wrote about their lives, achievements, struggles and battles. These people had to work hard and to survive the turmoil of political and socio-cultural events endangering their lives by accepting ostracism or even paying with their lives because of patriotic ideals that they sustained, promoted and disseminated.

Keywords: intellectual, scholar, educator, freedom fighter.

DOI: 10.20472/IAC.2015.018.036

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