Ioan A. Vãtãşescu, General Secretary of King Ferdinand I University of Cluj: Bio-Bibliographic Clarifications

Ioan A. Vãtãşescu (1897–1980) brilliantly completes a series of general secretaries of the University in Cluj, taking office after Dr. Ştefan Jarda (1919–1927) and Dr. Constantin Jurcan (1927–1937) and carrying out a most worthy and deserving activity for over a decade (between 1 April1937 and 30 May 1947). Having lost both his parents in early childhood, Ioan A. Vãtãşescuproved to have a great thirst for knowledge, taking his baccalaureate in France and obtaining auniversity degree in letters in the same country. He subsequently defended his doctoral thesis in1934 at Sorbonne University in Paris. As early as 1922 he joined the Romanian public service,succeeding by merit to take up the position of general secretary of King Ferdinand I Universityof Cluj. In the difficult moments of the university’s refuge to Sibiu and Timiºoara (September1940) and of its return to Cluj (summer–autumn 1945), he took over the heavy responsibilityof organizing these large-scale actions. In the context of the military occupation of the countryby the Red Army and after Romanian society fell under communist rule, Ioan A. Vãtãşescu wasabusively removed from the university’s structures.