Ioan Calenderoglu, Iancu Kalinderu, Ioan Kelenderu, Ioanŭ Calenderu, Jean Kalindéro, Un Paysan du Danube
Academic background
Influences
Spiru Haret, Julius Kühn, Gabriel Millet
Academic work
School or tradition
Agrarianism
Main interests
jurisprudence
agricultural science
forestry
home economics
pedagogy
classical antiquity
legal history
social history
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Ioan Lazăr Kalinderu (born Calenderoglu,[1] also known as Iancu Kalinderu, Ioan Kelenderu, Ioanŭ Calenderu, or Jean Kalindéro;[2] December 28 or 29, 1840 – December 11, 1913) was a Wallachian, later Romanian jurist and confidant of King Carol I, who served for thirty years as the administrator of crown domains, and for three years as president of the Romanian Academy. Educated in France, he was the son of a rich and influential Greek-Romanian banker, Lazăr Kalenderoglu, and the brother of physician Nicolae Kalinderu. Like them, he was a sympathizer of the National Liberal Party, with which he debuted in politics in the 1880s.
Kalideru was an expert in Roman law, but his attempts in the field, as well as his later studies in the history of Ancient Rome, are generally seen as minor contributions. His overall competence as an interpreter of law was questioned following his handling of the Strousberg Affair, although he served on the Court of Cassation and on international bodies of experts. Kalinderu stayed on as Carol's legal adviser, also helping him in direct negotiations with the National Liberal and Conservative political machines, and was several times considered for the office of Prime Minister.
As administrator for the crown, Kalinderu enacted his vision of rural improvement, setting up model farms and a cottage industry, promoting literacy and the arts, and encouraging entrepreneurship. He viewed these methods as a working alternative to land reform, defending property rights during and after the peasants' revolt of 1907. He was praised for his passion and dedication, but also criticized for the uncertainty of their outcome. In addition to his agrarian project and his social work, Kalinderu played a significant part in promoting mountaineering and modern forestry, set up the resort of Bușteni, and created his own art museum. A picturesque figure with eccentric customs, and often regarded as snobbish and servile, he became a stock character for the writers and cartoonists at Furnica magazine. His unfulfilled promise to donate his fortune to the public bled into a posthumous scandal which lasted into the interwar years.
^Nicolae Iorga, "Molière și Romînii. Comunicație comemorativă la Academia Romînă", in Revista Istorică, Nr. 1–3/1922, p. 5
^Baiculescu et al., p. 793; Teodorescu et al, pp. 849–853
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and Măneşti, Prahova (1895), as well as decorating the ceilings of the Kalinderu (1904) and Cantacuzino Palaces in Bucharest. Click on an image to view...
1955 Ioan Jak Rene Juvara 1913–1996 physician honorary member 1992 IoanKalinderu 1840–1913 jurist, publicist titular member 1893 Nicolae Kalinderu 1835–1902...
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Romanian and international contemporary art. The MNAC also manages the Kalinderu MediaLab, which caters to multimedia and experimental art. Private art...
professors included Alexandru Obregia [ro], Nicolae Kalinderu [ro], Thoma Ionescu [ro], Gheorghe Marinescu, Ioan Cantacuzino, and Mina Minovici. Also in 1903...
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