Curriculum Vitae
Prof. Dr. Dan SLUŠANSCHI
Date of birth: September 12, 1943
Place of birth: Sibiu, Romania
Home Address: Spl. Independentei 58 A, et. I, ap. 3.
050085 Bucuresti, Romania.
Phone: 0040/(0)21 3155570.
Fax: 0040/(0)21 3121313.
Email: slusanschi@yahoo.com
Qualifications:
Baccalaureus, “Ion Neculce” College, Bucharest, Romania, 1960.
M.A. in Classical Philology, Bucuresti University, Romania, 1965.
Ph.D. in Classical and Indo-European Studies, Romanian Academy, 1972 : “The Roman Literary Critical
Vocabulary, I. Century A.D.” (conducted by Acad. Al. Graur).
Awards:
“Perpessicius” Prize of the Museum for Romanian
Literature (1984) and “T. Cipariu” Prize of the
Romanian Academy (1985) for the editio princeps and
annotated Romanian translation of D. Cantemyr,
Historia Moldo-Vlachica (Bucuresti, Editura Academiei,
1983).
“National Book-Fair Prize” for the Romanian
annotated version of G. Dumezil’s Mythe et Epopee
(together with Fr. Baltaceanu and G. Cretia, in one
volume, Bucuresti, Editura Stiintifica, 1994).
Dr. h.c. of the Universite de Caen -
Basse-Normandie - 2003.
Teaching activity:
October 1993 - Ordinary University Professor of
Indo-European and Classical Philology, Bucuresti
University.
February 1991 - October 1993, Associate Professor of
Indo-European and Classical Philology,
Bucuresti University.
February 1975 - February 1991, Lecturer in
Indo-European Studies, Bucuresti University.
October 1973 - February 1975, Scientific Secretary of
the Romanian Association for Oriental Studies (till
June 1983 Honorary Scientific Secretary).
September 1965 - October 1973, Research Fellow of the
Institute for Linguistics, Classical Section,
Romanian Academy.
Courses taught:
Since 1970 - Text Seminaries :
Latin : Archaic Latin Inscriptions, Caesar,
Cicero, Catullus, Lucretius, Horatius, Vergilius,
Tibullus, Propertius, Lucanus, Seneca the Older,
Seneca the Philosopher, Petronius, Quintilianus,
Plinius the Older, Tacitus, Plinius the Younger,
Ammianus Marcellinus, Christian and Mediaeval Latin,
Neolatin Texts.
Greek : Homerus, Herodotus, Aeschylus,
Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Thukydides,
Lysias, Xenophon, Plato, Aristoteles, Polybius,
Lucianus.
Old Persian : Achaemenid Inscriptions.
Since 1972 - Graduate and Postgraduate Courses :
1972 - Indo-European Linguistics.
1974 - 1979 History of the Sanskrit Literature.
1974 - 1979 and 1994, then 2000/1 Old Persian
Civilisation and Language.
1975 - Late and Medieval Latin (also, once, for
the Romanian State Archives).
1976 - Latin Descriptive Syntax.
1976 - Latin Syntax and Modern Linguistics
(Postgraduate for Teachers).
1983 - 1996, then 1998- History of the Latin
Language (1995- for Theologians).
1985 - Textkritik and Metrics; Rhetoric and
Poetic (Postgraduate for Mastership).
1992 - 1998 General Linguistics.
1992 - 1994 Indo-European Mythology.
1992 - 1994 Greek Syntax (in Cluj and
Timisoara).
1997 - 1998 Greek Literature (Homer - Aristotle
: for Theologians).
Visiting professor:
“Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj,
Romania (1991-1994); “West”
University, Timisoara, Romania (1993-1994);
“Ovidius” University, Constanta,
Romania (1994-1996); Freie Universitaet Berlin,
Germany (1996); Universite de Caen, France (1996),
Romanian Institute, Berlin (2001), Universitatea
Pedagogica “Ion Creanga”, Chisinau, Moldova, (2001,
2003). Since 1991, Associate Professor of the “St.
Theresa” Catholic Institute, Bucuresti, Romania; since
1995 also of the Orthodox Christian Faculty,
Bucuresti University, Romania.
Research fields:
Indo-European; Classical Syntax and Semantics;
Late, Mediaeval and Neo-Latin.
Latin as the European mental mould; Greek and
Latin Epos and Tragedy.
Scientific Reviews redactor/Counsellor:
1980- Studia Indo-Europaea ad Daco-Romanos
pertinentia, Bucuresti, TUB.
1995 - Antiqua et mediaevalia, Bucuresti,
University Publishing House.
1996 -1999 Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch,
Stuttgart, Anton Hierseman Verlag.
1997 - ‘Archaeus’. Revue d’histoire des
religions, Bucuresti, Humanitas.
2001- ‘Studia Indo-Europaea’, Bucuresti, SRSIE.
Languages spoken:
English, French, Italian, German, Latin (si opus est).
References:
Who’s Who in the Balkans (1998- ); Who’s
Who in the World (1999- ).
Acad. Virgil Candea (Romanian Academy,
Bucuresti), Prof. dr. G.I. Tohaneanu (Timisoara,
Romania); Prof. dr. M. Lavency (Louvain-la-Neuve,
Belgium); Prof. dr. F. Wagner (Berlin, Germany);
Prof. dr. E. Coseriu (TŸbingen, Germany); Prof. dr.
J. Greppin (Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A), Prof. dr. E.
Peruzzi (Pisa, Italy), Prof. dr. L. Callebat (Caen,
France), Prof. dr. Michele Fruyt (Paris IV, France).
Conferences and scientific meetings(Selection):
International Linguistic Congresses : Bucuresti,
Romania (1967 and 1968).
Classical Philology and Latin Linguistics and
Palaeography : Brno, Tchekoslova- kia (1966);
Warsaw, Poland (1968); Cluj, Romania (1972);
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (1990), Innsbruck, Austria
(1991); Jerusalem, Israel (1993); Caen, France (1994
and 1998).
Thracology an Indo-European : Sofia, Bulgaria
(1972); Bucuresti, Romania (1976).
Conferences at the Universities of Bruxelles
(Universite Libre - 1990); Centre Universitaire de
Luxembourg (1990); Paris, France (Sorbonne IV - 1991);
Caen, France (1994); Timisoara, Romania (1994);
Berlin (Freie Universitaet - 1996); Constanta,
Romania (1995-1997).
Interdoctoral Meeting : Geneva - Cluj -
Bucuresti (Brasov, 1998).
Between 1964 and 2000 - other 27 National and
Regional Scientific Meetings on Ancient History,
Indo-European Studies, Classical Philology, Mediaeval
Latin.
Educative administration positions held:
1990 - 1998 Vice-President of the National
Classical Commission.
1992 - 1996 University Senator, Bucuresti
University.
1996- Director of the Medio- and Neolatin
Seminary, Bucuresti University
1997 -1999 General Director of the “Eudoxiu
Hurmuzachi” National Center for the Romanians Abroad.
1998 - Co-President of the National Commision
for Classical Studies.
2000 - Director of the “Dimitrie Onciul” Centre
for the Romanians Abroad (Cernauti Branch).
Member of Scientific Societies:
1965- Romanian Society for Classical Studies,
Bucuresti, Romania
1972- PETRONIANVM, Gainesville, Fla., U.S.A.
1972- Romanian Association for Oriental Studies,
Bucuresti, Romania, Scientific Secretary thereof
1973-1981
1986- National Geographic Society, USA
1994- New Europe College, Bucuresti, Romania
1997- Corresponding Member of the Berliner
Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft
2001- President and Founder of the Romanian
Society for Indo-European Studies
2003- Member of the Romanian Writers Union
