Dimitrie Gusti

Dimitrie Gusti
Gusti in 1938
Born	(1880-02-13)February 13, 1880 Iași, Kingdom of Romania
Died	October 30, 1955(1955-10-30) (aged 75) Bucharest, Romanian People's Republic
Resting place	Eternitatea Cemetery, Iași
Occupation	Academic
Known for	Dimitrie Gusti National Village Museum
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Iași Humboldt University of Berlin University of Leipzig
Academic work
Discipline	Sociology
Institutions	University of Iași University of Bucharest
Doctoral students	Petre Andrei
Notable students	Mircea Vulcănescu Miron Constantinescu Henri H. Stahl Lena Constante
Minister of Public Instruction, Religious Affairs and the Arts
In office 9 June 1932 – 13 November 1933
Prime Minister	Alexandru Vaida-Voevod Iuliu Maniu
Preceded by	Ion Lugoșianu
Succeeded by	Constantin Angelescu

Dimitrie Gusti (Romanian pronunciation: [diˈmitri.e ˈɡusti]; 13 February 1880 – 30 October 1955) was a Romanian sociologist, ethnologist, historian, and voluntarist philosopher; a professor at the University of Iași and the University of Bucharest, he served as Romania's Minister of Education in 1932–1933. Gusti was elected a member of the Romanian Academy in 1919, and was its president between 1944 and 1946. He was the main contributor to the creation of a new Romanian school of sociology.

He was a prominent member of the Peasants' Party, and later of the National Peasants' Party into which the former had merged.