Ioan Zalomit

Ioan Zalomit (1823–1885) was a Romanian philosopher, professor and rector of the University of Bucharest.

Biography

Ioan Zalomit was born in Bucharest, in a family of merchants. His parents were probably of Greek origin, but they were born in Wallachia.

He began his education in private schools, probably French, and achieved his formation in France, at the University of Paris and later in Germany, at the University of Berlin. He obtained the title of doctor of philosophy at this later university, in 1848, with a dissertation on Kant's philosophy.He studied under Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and followed his philosophical ideas. When the University of Bucharest was established, in 1864, he was appointed Professor of philosophy at the Faculty of Letters. He held the office of rector of the university between May 1871 - April 1885. In 1882 he became a member of the Permanent Council of Public Instruction, and in 1885 he was elected vice-president of this institution.

D. A. Laurian and Constantin Leonardescu studied under him in Bucharest. Principes et mérite de la philosophie de Kant, inaugural dissertation, Berlin, Gustav Schade, 1848 (the French version of the previous title) The State of the Public Instruction in Upper Romania at the End of the Academic Year 1861-1862. Discourse Pronounced with the Occasion of the Prize-Awarding Ceremony on June 29, 1862, Bucharest, Typographia Statului Sf. Sawa şi Niphon, 1862

Translations

Elements of Philosophy, Bucharest, Tipografia lui Eliade, 1854, translation of A. Charma's Réponses aux questions de philosophie contenues dans le programme adopté pour l'examen du baccalauréat ès Lettres, Paris, Librarie Classique et Elémentaire de L. Hachette, 1835.