Unirea Principatelor în interpretarea unui controversat universitar ieşean: Giorge Pascu

Through the union with Wallachia, in 1859, the city of Iasi gave up its condition of capital city and accepted, in exchange for some compensations of a cultural nature, the resulting sacrifices. The most significant compensation was the foundation of the University, and the city would become a sort of cultural capital of the new state, idea for which the Moldavian leaders, starting with Mihail Kogalniceanu and Titu Maiorescu, fought. At a local level there is the awareness of the major and, to a great extent, unilateral sacrifice made by the population in Moldavia through their union with Wallachia, and compensations meant to attenuate the symbolic and economic losses are expected from the new center. At that time, what the inter-war intellectuals called “the marginalization of Moldavia and Iasi” and, implicitly, of the cultural and educational institutions, especially of the University of Iasi, generated a complex that marked the entire existence after 1859, the complex of “the province”. It manifests in a city that was accustomed to being