Gotowa bibliografia na temat „Școala de la Sf. Sava”

Ion S. Floru, born 28 September/9 October 1864 in the village of Floru in Olt county, took his name after that of his native village. He completed his book learning in 1894 as a graduate in historical sciences-philology at the University of Bucharest. He worked as a history teacher and director of the "Sf. Sava" High School in Bucharest, school inspector in the Ministry of Instruction and Religious Affairs, and politically he sympathized with the Junimist party and after 1907, the National Liberal party. He was in the circle of the great intellectuals of Romania Titu Maiorescu, Simion Mehedinți, Dimitrie Onciul and in close collaboration with the Oltenia that dominated cultural and scientific life through the magazine "Arhivele Olteniei". Throughout his life he impressed as a historian and philosopher. His history textbooks, printed in several editions and print runs between 1897 and 1934, were the most recommended to students, always updated and stylized in relation to the progress of Romanian historiography and the transformations in all spheres of national activity. Ion S. Floru was the first in the country, as early as 1905, to comment on the books and ideas of the great historian A. D. Xenopol on the philosophy of history. His entire activity as a great personality of Romanian education, history and philosopher is reconstructed in this article so that future encyclopaedias and dictionaries will not forget him as they have done until now. Ion S. Floru is presented as a landmark of Romanian historiography in the most complex era of the establishment of history as a science, the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.

A rare book for us but a compulsory object of study for Romanian-speaking teachers in all Romanian schools of Transylvania in the year 1861. In a research related to school plurilingualism in Transylvania of the 19th century, in the correspondence of the studied author, George Bariț, I discovered an order of over 100 books with the title "Studii asupra instructiunii publice în unele din statele cele mai înaintate ale Europei" ("Studies on Public "Instruction in Some of the Most advanced States of Europe" by George Costa-Foru, published at the Printing House of the National College of St. Sava, in Bucharest, in 1860. The order will be sent to all the Romanian schools in Transylvania, with which George Bariț was in permanent exchange. The author, George Costa-Foru, director of the schools Ephoria in 1857, received an important mission from the representative of the Ottoman Porte in Bucharest, the caimacan Dimitrie Al. Ghica: in four months, he will have to travel across Europe and bring back information about the most advanced schools and educational institutions in the visited states. The way they function will be the model of a school and public education reform in Wallachia, but also, as it will be historically demonstrated, they will constitute the basis of the first Public Education Act in the newly formed Romania, a state created after the union of the two historical Romanian-speaking principalities, Moldova and Wallachia. In the present article, the interest is to introduce the volume with some observations about George Costa-Foru's journey and to put for the first time in the equation the importance of this journey, presented in the book more as a report to a mission then a literary diary. A list of all the institutions he visited is for the first time made available to the general public in our article. Was this really a baiting mission for the Turks or a simple gathering of information that will be the basis for the modernization of public education in the future sovereign state? The research in progress, of which this article is a part, will endeavour to shed light on this problem of pedagogical espionage: Costa-Foru returns with more than 480 original documents from the institutions visited, which he lists at the end of the report and officially hands over to the Minister of Public Instruction in 1857, the year of his trip. The book is the final report, Costa-Foru gives to his commander, but it does not tell us how these documents were obtained. They are still unknown to the public, but they are summarised in the appendix of the report written by George Costa-Foru.

Lucrarea doamnei Nina Stanescu este o monografie a unui asezamant deopotriva social si duhovnicesc dupa modelul celui inventat de Sf. Vasile cel Mare in Cezareea Capadociei. Intentia ne-explicitata a autoarei este una de tip hermeneutic: a cerceta validarea prototipului unui astfel de asezamant peste veacuri, la peste 1600 de ani, intr-unul romanesc tarziu, edificat la cotul Buzaului, cu temeiurile celui dintai din si prin care au rodit ostenelile duhovnicesti si actele martirice ale unui alt mare sfant rasaritean, de la Dunarea de Jos, de data aceasta, Sf. Sava de la Buzau.