Simion Mehedinți (Romanian pronunciation: [simiˈon meheˈdint͡sʲ]; October 19, 1868 – December 14, 1962) was a Romanian geographer, the founding father of modern Romanian geography,[1][2] and a titular member of the Romanian Academy. A figure of importance in the Junimea literary club, he was for a while editor of its magazine, Convorbiri Literare, and became a supporter of the fascistIron Guard.
Simion Mehedinți, in 1918
Bust of Mehedinți before the town hall of Soveja, his birthplace.
He was born in Soveja, Vrancea County. After attending primary school in his native village, he went to study theology, first in Focșani, and then in Bucharest, where he graduated from high school in 1888. He then enrolled at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bucharest, graduating with a B.A. thesis on "J.J. Rousseau’s ideas on education." He then pursued his studies in Paris, with Paul Vidal de la Blache, and at the University of Berlin, with Ferdinand von Richthofen. In 1895, Mehedinți transferred to Leipzig University, where he completed a Ph.D. degree in early 1899, with thesis "Über die Kartographische Induction" written under the direction of Friedrich Ratzel.[1]: 4 He then returned to Romania, where he was appointed professor at the University of Bucharest and head of the first geography department at that university.[3] He was a strong proponent of the geomorphology approach to geographic studies; his powerful position enabled him to impose this point of view on Romanian geography.[2]: 5–6
He died in Bucharest in 1962. Streets in Oradea, Otopeni, Sibiu, and in the Crângași neighborhood of Bucharest are named after him. High schools in Codlea, Galați, and Vidra also bear his name.
References
^ abBălteanu, Dan (2012), "Simion Mehedinți – Founder and organiser of modern Romanian geography" (PDF), Romanian Journal of Geography, 56 (1): 3–10
^ abSimandan, Dragos (2002), "On what it takes to be a good geographer" (PDF), Area, 34 (3): 284–293, doi:10.1111/1475-4762.00082
^Ianoș, Ioan; Săgeată, Radu; Sorensen, Anthony (2018-07-03). "Simion Mehedinți's Contribution to Modern Romanian Geography". The Professional Geographer. 70 (3): 504–512. doi:10.1080/00330124.2018.1432365. S2CID 134128360.
^Siteanu, Eugenia (2015), "Savantul geograf Simion Mehedinți" (PDF), Studii și Comunicări/DIS (in Romanian), 8 (8): 271–279
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