Daniel Barbu
| Daniel Barbu | |
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| Minister of Culture | |
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In office 21 December 2012 – 12 December 2013 |
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| President | Traian Băsescu |
| Prime Minister | Victor Ponta |
| Preceded by | Puiu Hașotti |
| Succeeded by | Gigel Știrbu |
| Member of the Senate of Romania | |
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Assumed office 19 December 2012 |
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| Constituency | 42-Bucharest, Electoral district no. 5 |
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21 May 1957 Bucharest, Romania |
| Political party | Alianța Liberalilor și Democraților, ALDE |
| Alma mater |
Bucharest National University of Arts Babeș-Bolyai University University of Bucharest |
| Profession | Political scientist, publisher, essayist, journalist and professor |
| Religion | Catholic |
| Website | http://danielbarbu.eu/ |
Daniel-Constantin Barbu (born 21 May 1957) is a Romanian political scientist, publisher, essayist, journalist, and professor at the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Political Science. The head of the Research Institute at the University of Bucharest, and former dean of the Faculty, he was also director of Realitatea Românească, a daily newspaper, in 1991-1992. Barbu worked as a State Adviser for President Emil Constantinescu between 1997 and 1999. He is the author as of June 2007 of eight books and many more articles on political science, and a contributor to the magazine Sfera Politicii. He is also a member of the Romanian Senate from Bucharest and former Minister of Culture.
Barbu was born in Bucharest, and graduated from the Nicolae Bălcescu High School (the present-day Saint Sava National College) in 1976. In 1976, the Union of Communist Youth, official youth organization in Communist Romania, refused to grant him permission to attend either the Faculty of History-Philosophy or that of Law. Consequently, Barbu attended Art History in Cluj-Napoca, at the present-day Babeş-Bolyai University, graduating in 1980. He then was employed as a curator at the Village Museum (1980) and the National Museum of Romanian History (1981–1986). Between 1987 and 1992, he was a researcher at Bucharest University's Institute of South-Eastern European Studies.
After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, he took doctoral training in Germany, at the University of Fribourg's Faculty of Theology; he received a Ph.D. in history from the Babeş-Bolyai University in 1991. In 1999, he took a second doctorate, in Philosophy, from the University of Bucharest, where he has been teaching since 1991.
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