Acta Universitatis Danubius. Relationes Internationales, Vol 3, No 1 (2010)

Abstract

Much more appreciated and known in his time than by posterity, V.A.Urechia was a historian, politician and learned man, formed together with great personalities of the generation of the
40's, A.I.Cuza's collaborator (the first ruler of the United Principalities), and also our first hispanist. After finishing his studies in Paris, he married Francoise Josephine Dominique Plano, the daughter of
Queen Isabela's of Spain personal doctor, Urechia showed a constant interest and maintained strong connections with the Spanish cultural space that he discovered to be the origin of the founding
emperor of Dacia Traiana. The subject-matter of the present paper is Urechia's "capital of Spanish education" (enhanced in time), the contacts with the great personalities of the Spanish culture of his
time , that can be reconstituted due to his work, his memoires, his letters a intercultural dialogue and articles published in the Spanish and Romanian press, as well as the influence of those contacts on the
personality, method, and purpose of his cultural approaches. Moreover, we are to point out the contribution that the personalities had in the intercultural dialogue in Europe, at the end of the 19th
century.