In order to celebrate its 150 years of existence, the University of Bucharest has created a gallery of portraits dedicated to the rectors who have led the educational institution ever since its foundation until 2011.
The gallery comprises 36 sanguine drawings on ground paper having the size of 60 x 49 cm, created by Daniela Chirion, artist.
This initiative stems from the belief that without seeing the value in the past, we could not see the same within the present, and, therefore no strategy for the future could be designed. Generations after generations, through their restless effort, the rectors of the University of Bucharest have built the most important and prestigious higher education institution in Romania. Rectors, mentors and veritable leaders, they have been the ones who have shaped, alongside the staff of professors, whole generations of graduates who have later on become well-known individuals of the Romanian society, further improving the reputation of the University of Bucharest and of Romania abroad. The rectors of the University of Bucharest are real visionaries who have made the University of Bucharest a professional, institutional and moral benchmark.
They have brought an irreplaceable contribution to the development of the Romanian society during the one and a half centuries of existence of the University of Bucharest.
Gheorghe Costafaru
Gheorghe Costaforu, civil law professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1864-1871)
Vasile Boerescu
Vasile Boerescu, commercial law professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1871)
Ion Zalomit
Ion Zalomit, history of philosophy professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1871-1885)
Alexandru Hristea-Orăscu
Alexandru Hristea-Orăscu, descriptive geometry professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1885-1892)
Titu Maiorescu
Titu Maiorescu, logics and history of compared philosophy professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1892-1897)
Grigore Ștefănescu
Grigore Ștefănescu, geology and mineralogy professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1897-1898)
Constantin Dimitrescu-Iași
Constantin Dimitrescu-Iași, sociology professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1898-1911)
Ermil Pangratti
Ermil Pangratti, descriptive geometry professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1911-1912, 1923-1929)
Ioan Bogdan
Ioan Bogdan, Slavic languages professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1912)
Thoma Ionescu
Thoma Ionescu, typographic anatomy and surgical clinics professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1912-1915)
Ion Athanasiu
Ion Athanasiu, general and compared physiology professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1915-1920)
Mihail Vlădescu
Mihail Vlădescu, botany professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1920-1923)
Nicolae Iorga
Nicolae Iorga, medieval and modern universal history professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1929-1932)
Nicolae Gheorghiu
Nicolae Gheorghiu, obstetric clinics professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1932-1936)
Constantin C. Stoicescu
Constantin C. Stoicescu, Roman law professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1936-1940)
Petre P. Panaitescu
Petre P. Panaitescu, Slavic history professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1940-1941)
Alexandru Otetelișanu
Alexandru Otetelișanu, civil law professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1941)
Horia Hulubei
Horia Hulubei, atomic physics professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1941-1944)
Daniel Danielopolu
Daniel Danielopolu, medical clinics professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1944)
Simion Stoilow
Simion Stoilow, theory of functions professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1944-1946)
Alexandru Rosetti
Alexandru Rosetti, Romanian language professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1946-1949), linguist
Ilie G. Murgulescu
Ilie G. Murgulescu, physics chemistry professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1949-1950)
Constantin Balmuș
Constantin Balmuș, classical languages professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1950-1952)
Avram Bunaciu
Avram Bunaciu, constitutional law professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1952-1954)
Nicolae Sălăgeanu
Nicolae Sălăgeanu, botany professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1954-1957)
Iorgu Iordan
Iorgu Iordan, linguistics and philology professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1957-1958)
Jean Livescu
Jean Livescu, Germanic languages and literatures professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1959-1963; 1968-1972)
Gheorghe Mihoc
Gheorghe Mihoc, mathematical statistics professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1963-1968)
George Ciucu
George Ciucu, probability calculation professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1972-1981)
Ioan Ioviț Popescu
Ioan Ioviț Popescu, plasma physics professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1981-1988)
Ion Dodu Bălan
Ion Dodu Bălan, Romanian literature professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1989)
Nicolae D. Cristescu
Nicolae D. Cristescu, mechanics professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1990-1992)
Emil Constantinescu
Emil Constantinescu, mineralogy professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1992-1996)
Ioan Mihăilescu
Ioan Mihăilescu, sociology professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (1996-2005)
Ioan Pânzaru
Ioan Pânzaru, French medieval literature professor, rector of the University of Bucharest (2005-2011)
Mircea Dumitru
Mircea Dumitru, professor of logic and philosophy, rector of the University of Bucharest (2011-2019)
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