State Secretary at the Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs
In office 14 September 1940 – 21 January 1941
Prime Minister
Ion Antonescu
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Traian Brăileanu
Co-Leader of the National Christian Party
In office 16 July 1935 – 10 February 1938
Serving with Octavian Goga & A. C. Cuza
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Octavian Goga (as president of the National Agrarian Party) A. C. Cuza (as president of the National-Christian Defense League)
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None (party banned under the 1938 Constitution)
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Born
(1889-12-22)December 22, 1889 Bulbucata, Giurgiu County, Kingdom of Romania
Died
August 20, 1972(1972-08-20) (aged 82) Mogoșoaia, Ilfov County, Socialist Republic of Romania
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University of Bucharest University of Vienna
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Writer, Professor, Politician
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Theologian, Philosopher
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Nichifor Crainic (Romanian pronunciation:[niˈciforˈkrajnik]; pseudonym of Ion Dobre[iˈonˈdobre];[1] 22 December 1889, Bulbucata, Giurgiu County – 20 August 1972, Mogoșoaia) was a Romanian writer, editor, philosopher, poet and theologian famed for his traditionalist activities. Crainic was also a professor of theology at the Bucharest Theological Seminary and the Chișinău Faculty of Theology. He was an important racist ideologue,[2][3][4] and a far-right politician.[5] He was one of the main Romanian fascist[6] and antisemitic ideologues.[2][7][8][9][10]
^Ionițoiu, Cicerone (2002). "Dicționar C" (PDF). Victimele terorii comuniste : arestați, torturați, întemnițati, uciși (in Romanian). Vol. 2. Bucharest, Romania: Editura Mașina de Scris. p. 245. ISBN 978-973-99994-2-7. OCLC 46872499.
^ abClark, Roland (2012). "Nationalism and orthodoxy: Nichifor Crainic and the political culture of the extreme right in 1930s Romania". Nationalities Papers. 40 (1). Cambridge University Press (CUP): 107–126. doi:10.1080/00905992.2011.633076. ISSN 0090-5992. S2CID 153813255. The institute only lasted one year, but allowed Crainic to advance ideas such as anti-Masonry, anti-Semitism, and biological racism within an LANC-approved forum (Crainic, Ortodoxie 147).
^Caraiani, Ovidiu (2003). "Identities and Rights in Romanian Political Discourse". Polish Sociological Review (142). Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne (Polish Sociological Association): 161–169. ISSN 1231-1413. JSTOR 41274855. Nae Ionescu considered ethnicity as "the formula of today's Romanian nationalism," while for Nichifor Crainic the "biological homogeneousness," the "historical identity" and the "blood and the soil" were the defining elements of the "ethnocratic state."
^Wedekind, Michael (2010). "The mathematization of the human being: anthropology and ethno-politics in Romania during the late 1930s and early 1940s". New Zealand Slavonic Journal. 44. Australia and New Zealand Slavists’ Association: 27–67. ISSN 0028-8683. JSTOR 41759355. A prominent proponent of the concept of 'ethnic homogeneity' was the chauvinistic, xenophobic and pro-Nazi writer, politician, poet and professor of Theology Nichifor Crainic (1889-1972), author of "Orthodoxy and Ethnocracy" (Ortodoxie și etnocrație), published in 1938.
^Livezeanu, Irina (2003). "Reviews of Books:Eugenics and Modernization in Interwar Romania Maria Bucur". The American Historical Review. 108 (4). Oxford University Press (OUP): 1245–1247. doi:10.1086/529946. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 10.1086/529946. Clearly there were affinities between the eugenicists and thinkers, writers, and politicians on the extreme Right such as Nichifor Crainic, Nae Ionescu, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Octavian Goga, and A.C. Cuza.
^Ioanid, Radu (1992). "Nicolae Iorga and Fascism". Journal of Contemporary History. 27 (3). Sage Publications, Ltd.: 467–492. doi:10.1177/002200949202700305. ISSN 0022-0094. JSTOR 260901. S2CID 159706943. Amongst those arrested for Duca's assassination were Nae Ionescu and Nichifor Crainic (a fascist ideologue, mediator between the NCP and the Iron Guards).
^Friling, Tuvia; Ioanid, Radu; Ionescu, Mihail E., eds. (2004). "Antisemitic Propaganda and Official Rhetoric concerning the Judeo-Bolshevik Danger: Romanian Jews and Communism between 1938–1944" (PDF). International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania: Final Report. Iași: Polirom. pp. 93, 116. ISBN 978-973-681-989-6.
^Friling, Tuvia; Ioanid, Radu; Ionescu, Mihail E., eds. (2004). "Background and Precursors to the Holocaust. Roots of Romanian Antisemitism. The League of National Christian Defense and Iron Guard Antisemitism. The Antisemitic Policies of the Goga Government and the Royal Dictatorship" (PDF). International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania: Final Report. Iași: Polirom. pp. 35–37. ISBN 978-973-681-989-6.
^Zach, Cornelius R.; Zach, Krista (2010). "Dietmar Müller Staatsbürger auf Widerruf. Juden und Muslime als Alteritätspartner im rumänischen und serbischen Nationscode. Ethnonationale Staatsbürgerschaftskonzepte 1871–1941. Harrassowitz Verlag Wiesbaden 2005. = Balkanologische Veröffentlichungen, 41. ISBN: 3-447-05248-1". Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. Neue Folge (in German). 58 (4): 609–611. ISBN 978-3-515-11333-5. Retrieved 27 March 2019. Die ideologischen Mentoren der "jungen Generation", Nae Ionescu und Nichifor Crainic, lieferten den Antisemiten (besonders der legionären Bewegung) ein theoretisches Gerüst für ihre Argumentation.
^Deletant, Dennis (1993). "Reviewed Works: A Providential Anti-Semitism. Nationalism and Polity in Nineteenth-Century Romania by William O. Oldson; The Case of Romanian Intellectuals in the 1930s by Leon Volovici". The Slavonic and East European Review. 71 (3). Modern Humanities Research Association: 546–548. ISSN 0037-6795. JSTOR 4211337. Volovici's study is a complementary one; it examines competently the role of the Romanian intelligentsia in the inter-war years in legitimizing anti-Semitic ideas and thus facilitating public acceptance of them. Octavian Goga and Nichifor Crainic were extreme examples and Volovici rightly highlights their deeds and writings.
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revolutionary nationalism and were heavily inspired by the writings of NichiforCrainic. The Romanian Iron Guard espoused anti-capitalist, anti-banking and...
1930s in the writings of theologians such as NichiforCrainic, Nicolae Neaga or Liviu Stan. In 1936, Crainic published a seminal text titled Rasă și religiune...
included Agârbiceanu, Făgețel, Iacobescu, Tomescu, Gheorghe Bogdan-Duică, NichiforCrainic, and I. U. Soricu. In this twinned incarnation, the review hosted Iorga's...
League (LANC); a prominent member of the party was the philosopher NichiforCrainic. Goga was chosen in December 1937 by King Carol II to form a government...
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publications and writings of prominent Romanian figures such as A.C. Cuza, NichiforCrainic, Nicolae Iorga, Nicolae Paulescu and Ion Găvănescu. The main political...
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"), which led to criticism from the far-right Gândirea (its editor, NichiforCrainic, had called The Transfiguration of Romania "a bloody, merciless, massacre...
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autochthonist nationalism affected the area throughout the 20th century. NichiforCrainic celebrated Gândirea's role in making nationalism and Orthodoxy priorities...
colleagues retained their posts. An Iron Guard supporter and ideologue, NichiforCrainic, became Minister of Propaganda. Following Sima's resignation on 7 July...
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