Protochronism

Protochronismus is an ideological idea of ​​thought from Romania. It was published in 1974 by the Romanian writer Edgar Papu in the Bucharest magazine Secolul XX for the first time. According to the theory of Protochronismus based the majority of European culture, such as the Baroque, Romanticism and the ideas and styles of Flaubert and Ibsen, in reality, ideas and works of Romanian literature. The performances of the Protochronismus were promoted by the then heads of state and head of government of Nicolae Ceauşescu.

This new national historiography made ​​a pivot of the emphasis of the Roman origin of the Romanians, as it was represented in the 19th century by the Transylvanian School, towards the Dacians. This could already be shown in its early days as an anti-imperialist struggle of the valiant defense Dacians against the Romans, the Romanian history. Thus, the official history of the regime approached the ideas of the extreme right of the Iron Guard, such as those of living in the Italian exile historical revisionists Iosif Constantin Drăgan. The Daco- Roman continuity theory has been elevated to the state doctrine.

The peasant uprising of 1784 was interpreted as Horea Romanian forerunners of the French Revolution and the peasant uprising of Bobalna in 1437 (Romanian: Rascoala de la Bobalna ) hyped up to the revolution. The party historian Nicolae Copoiu praised 1975, the documents of the Moldovan " capitulations " to the Ottoman Sublime Porte, as evidence of early Romanian sovereignty. Even then, the Romanian countries had negotiated on an equal footing with the Sultan, just as Ceauşescu today with Moscow and the West. These documents (Romanian: Capitulaţiile Moldovei cu Poarta otomana ) had been previously exposed by the historian Constantin C. Giurescu as a patriotic fakes however already.

In the field of science and art, the writings of Neagoe Basarab which were compared with Machiavelli and rated as important. The writer Paul Anghel even went as far to say, Neagoes teachings (Romanian: Învăţături ) would not only unmatched in the West, but not even in the Byzantine Empire would like to find at this time. The fact that Neagoe wrote on Church Slavonic and not in Romanian, in this national elevation was not an obstacle. The sociologist Ilie Bădescu again tried to prove that the Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu had revolutionized the sociological sciences in Europe. The writer Dan Zamfirescu dealt contrast with Ion Creangă and presented his work on the importance of Homer, Shakespeare and Goethe. In addition, early Romanian technology pioneers about the aviation pioneer Aurel Vlaicu, the bacteriologist Victor Babeş, or the universal scholar Dimitrie Cantemir were glorified.

Swell

• David Priestland World History of Communism: From the French Revolution to today. Siedler Verlag, Munich, 2009. ISBN 978-3-88680-708-6, p 488
• Katherine Verdery, National Ideology under Socialism, Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceausescu 's Romania, Berkeley, California, 1991, pp. 174 - 176
• Lucian Boia: History and Myth: about the presence of the past in Romanian society, Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar, 2003, ISBN 9783412183028 ( online at Google Books)