Faculty of Letters at University of Bucharest

The ties of the Faculty of Letters to Romanian academic and cultural life have always been tight and especially productive. In the inter-war period, several institution were established in the Faculty of Letters: the Institute for Literary History and Folklore, founded by D. Caracostea in 1933, the Institute for Linguistics, founded by A. Rosetti in 1937, the Institute for Latin Studies, founded by Nicolae Herescu in 1938 etc. and several prestigious specialized publication were edited: “Grai si suflet” (Speech and Soul), 1923 (Ovid Densusianu), “Revista de filosofie” (The Philosophical Journal), 1923 (Constantin Radulescu - Motru), “Dacia”, 1924 (Vasile Pârvan), “Revista istorica româna” (The Romanian History Journal), 1931 (C. C. Giurescu), “Bulletin linguistique”, 1933 (A. Rosetti), “Cercetari literare” (Literary Research), 1933 (N. Cartojan), “Sociologie româneasca” (Romanian sociology), 1938 (D. Gusti) etc. While maintaining tradition and understanding the importance of the relationship between higher education and research, the Faculty of Letters today has common projects with the Iorgu Iordan-Al. Rosetti Institute for Linguistics of the Academy, with the Central University Library and with the National Library, with the “Dimitrie Gusti” National Museum of the Village, with the Institute for Ethnography and Folklore, etc. The Faculty of Letters is also the academic institution which has the most representatives of the Romanian language, culture and civilization abroad. The lectorates of Padua, Calabria, Heidelberg, Regensburg, Brussels, Oxford, Toronto, Seoul, etc., are covered by teachers from our Faculty. Constant exchange programmes for students and teachers have been concluded with similar universities in Europe, hundreds of foreign students benefit from classes given by our colleagues during the preparation year, and our participations in national and international congresses and conferences are numerous and of high academic quality. This is why the Faculty of Letters is a top philological university faculty in Romania. A monument to philological culture, the Faculty of Letters is simultaneously an architectural monument, placed in the University building in the centre of Bucharest. The impressive Marble Hall has recently been restored and is one of the symbols of the original building, together with the Fa