Academician Rezvan Teodorescu will be buried on Wednesday with military honors in the academicians’ plot at Bellou Cemetery. The ceremony will start at 12:00, the Romanian Academy said.

Rezvan Teodorescu, vice-president of the Romanian Academy from 2018 to 2023, died on Monday at the age of 83.

On Tuesday, the coffin with the dead body was transferred to the Club of Academicians for safekeeping, after which it was placed in the large chapel of the Bellu Orthodox cemetery.

According to the Romanian Academy, Rezvan Teodorescu was an exceptional personality of modern Romanian culture, with an encyclopedic vocation, a well-known cultural historian.

A specialist in art history, Romanian art and civilization, Christianity and Balkan spirituality, Rezvan Teodorescu coordinated the activities of the Art, Architecture and Audiovisual Section of the Romanian Academy for 10 years as president.

A doctor of history at the University of Bucharest, studying elements of Byzantine, Balkan and Western culture in early Romanian medieval culture, he began his academic career in 1963 at the Institute of Art History, where he was a researcher and deputy research director.

In 1987, he became an associate professor at the Nicolae Grigorescu Institute of Fine Arts, now the National University of Arts in Bucharest, where he worked as a professor from 1990, teaching courses on medieval European art, typology of Southeastern European art, characteristics of the Christian East, and the history of Byzantine civilization .

In the same year, 1990, he was elected rector of the National University of Arts. His teaching activity also meant cooperation with the University of Media, the “Spiru Haret” University of Bucharest, the “Apollonia” University of Iași, the “Danubia” University of Galaţi.

In 1993, he became a member of the Romanian Academy.

Visiting Professor of the Higher Center for Medieval Studies in Poitiers Rezvan Teodorescu is associated with the establishment of the first UNESCO Humanities Chair in Romania.

His rich work was focused on the study of ancient Romanian art and medieval European art, on the comparative analysis of geopolitical strategies in the European space, on the study of mentalities and on the study of some niche areas from which the theory of “cultural corridors” arose. , the founder typology theory, the exposition of momentum princeps for the beginning of European art, as well as the theory of the transactional mentality of the Romanian people, which he presented in a speech at the reception at the Romanian Academy.

For more than three decades, he wrote articles for the famous TV show “Teleencyclopedia”, which was broadcast on Public Television, which he considered one of his important achievements at the public level.

Professor Rezvan Teodorescu participated in the organization of institutions and government structures: President of Romanian Radio and Television (1990-1992), member of the National Audiovisual Council (1992-2000), President of the National Commission of Historical Monuments (1993-1995). ), Minister of Culture and Religion (2000-2004) and national ambassador of the UN Alliance of Civilizations program since 2009.

As Secretary General of the International Association for Southeast European Studies (1994 – 2023), he supported numerous interdisciplinary research projects.

Winner of the Nicolae Belcescu Award of the Romanian Academy and the Gottfried von Herder Award of the University of Vienna, Academician Rezvan Teodorescu was elected a member of the European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters in 1998.

The President of Romania awarded him the National Order of Merit in the rank of Grand Officer and the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic in the rank of Commander in recognition of his undeniable contribution to the promotion of Romanian and European culture