Part 2

Kogalniceanu's intention of building from the very beginning an establishment able to embrace all the disciplines - the Universitas studiorum - could not be put into practice for want of adequate conditions. Faculties, sections and disciplines for study would be gradually added and would receive definition by making use of the exceptional material and spiritual possibilities of the nation.

The Law of Education, one of the basic reforms in the period of the Union, promulgated on 25 November/5 December 1864, strongly reasserted the new principles and objectives which had to guide higher education in our country, rightly considered an active force in the social and moral progress. In keeping with this law the University was to be structured as follows: a Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Faculty of Physical Sciences, of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, a Law Faculty and a Faculty of Medicine which began its courses in 1879. The Faculty of Theology was dissolved for want of students.

A new Law, that of 1898, initiated by Spiru Haret, gave higher education a more solid basis through the more rigorous specialization of high-school disciplines. This specialization was continued on a higher level in the universities which, according to this new law, were to organize laboratories and seminars.

Early Years of UAIC
(pictures of University museum)