Constantin Daicoviciu

Constantin Daicoviciu was a Romanian historian and archaeologist, a professor at the University of Cluj, and a titular member of the Romanian Academy. He was born on February 22, 1898, in Căvăran, at the time in Austria-Hungary, now in Romania. After finishing primary school in Căvăran, he attended the state high school in Lugoj from 1909 to 1916. Following a stint in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I, he entered the University of Cluj in the autumn of 1918. From 1923 to 1968 he was a faculty member of the University of Cluj, advancing to associate professor in 1932 and full professor in 1938. He was the main representative of the Daco-Romanian continuity theory that was actively promoted in Communist Romania as the accepted ethnogenesis theory of the Romanian nation. He married Lucia Bugnariu in 1931, and their son, Hadrian Daicoviciu, was also a historian. He died on May 27, 1973, in Cluj, and was buried in the city's Hajongard Cemetery.