Dimitrie Gusti, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Dimitrie Gusti

Romanian academic

Date of Birth: 13-Feb-1880

Place of Birth: Iași, Iași County, Romania

Date of Death: 30-Oct-1955

Profession: writer, historian, author, university teacher, sociologist, philosopher

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Dimitrie Gusti (Romanian pronunciation: [di'mitri.e 'gusti]; 13 February 1880 – 30 October 1955) was a Romanian sociologist, ethnologist, historian, and voluntarist philosopher; a professor at the University of Iasi and the University of Bucharest, he served as Romania's Minister of Education in 1932–1933.
Gusti was elected a member of the Romanian Academy in 1919, and was its president between 1944 and 1946.
He was the main contributor to the creation of a new Romanian school of sociology. He was a prominent member of the Peasants' Party, and later of the National Peasants' Party into which the former had merged.