Scurtă privire asupra învățământului silvic superior în România între anii 1906 și 1933 [Short perspective upon the academic silvicultural education between 1906 and 1933]

The paper restituted in the present issue of the journalrepresents a retrospective of academic silvicultural education from Romania during the first decades of the 20thcentury, between the years 1906 and 1933. The presentation is divided into the following distinct periods: (i)1906-1923, subdivided into sequences separated by theFirst World War: before the war (1906-1916) and afterthe war (1919-1923): (ii) period 1923-1933. This paperis a continuation of the one presented in the previous issue of the journal, that evoqued the establishment andthe beginning moments of silvicultural education in theRomanian Kingdom in the second half of the 19th century. If for almost half of a century, at the beginnings, theacademic silvicultural education was characterised byturmoil, hesitations and improvisations, the establishingof the Sivicultural School at Brănești, in 1894, broughta remarkable progress and upgrade. The activity of theSuperior Silvicultural School from Brănești was brutallyinterrupted after 22 years with the entrance of Romaniain the First World War (1916), and the academic silvicultural education returned to a provisional state until 1923,when it is enclosed in The Polythechnical School ofBucharest under the name of Silvicultural section. Here,the academic silvicultural education knows a new periodof stability and progress that would last 25 years until thereform of academic education conducted by the communists in 1948. Organising silvicultural education in Romania between the wars established through the law from1923 led to a very well instructed staff at all levels ofsilvicultural administration and to the recrutation of didactic and research professionals so necessary that gaveremarkable results in the silvicultural administration.