Vasile Pârvan

Vasile Pârvan
Vasile Pârvan
Born	28 September 1882 (1882-09-28) Perchiu, Huruieşti, Bacău, Romania
Died	26 June 1927(1927-06-26) (aged 44) Bucharest, Romania
Citizenship	Romanian
Nationality	Romanian
Fields	History, Archaeology
Institutions	Romanian Academy
Known for	Getica, research on Dacia

Vasile Pârvan (Romanian pronunciation: [vaˈsile pɨrˈvan]; 28 September 1882, Perchiu, Huruieşti, Bacău – 26 June 1927, Bucharest) was a Romanian historian and archaeologist.

He studied history in Bucharest, with Nicolae Iorga as one of his professors. He continued his studies in Germany. His Ph.D. thesis, written in 1909, was titled The nationality of merchants in the Roman Empire. Subsequently, he became professor at the University of Bucharest, and was elected member of the Romanian Academy.

His main interests were in prehistoric archaeology and classical antiquity. He organized several archaeological excavations, the most important one being at Histria, from 1914 to 1927.

Among the institutions bearing his name are: the Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest (an establishment originally founded on November 3, 1834), and the Vasile Pârvan Museum in Bârlad (founded on April 10, 1914).

List of Works

• M. Aurelius Versus Caesar și L. Aurelius Commodus (1909)
• Contribuții epigrafice la istoria creștinismului daco-roman (1911)
• Cetatea Tropaeum (1912)
• Memoriale, București, Cultura Națională, 1923
• Începuturile vieții romane la gurile Dunării (1923)
• Getica (1926)
• Dacia: An Outline of the Early Civilization of the Carpatho-Danubian Countries (1928, in English, translated in Romanian as Dacia. Civilizațiile antice din regiunile carpato-danubiene 1937, 1957, 1958)

See also

• Dacia
• List of Romanian archaeologists

External links

• Biography at cIMec
• Biography
• Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology
• Vasile Pârvan Museum