Nicolae Bănescu

Nicolae P. Bănescu (16 December 1878 – 11 September 1971) was a Romanian historian, elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy in 1936.

He was born in Călărași, the third of 14 children of Petre Bănescu, a lawyer, and his wife Ecaterina, née Drăgulănescu. After spending his childhood in Găești, he attended from 1889 to 1996 the Saint Sava High School in Bucharest. He pursued his studies at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Bucharest, graduating in 1901, after which he taught at the Carol I High School in Craiova and the I.C. Brătianu High School in Pitești. and teacher at Matei Basarab, Gheorghe Lazăr, and Saint Sava high schools.

From 1910 to 1912, Bănescu attended the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, where he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Byzantine studies in July 1914, From 1912 to 1914 he was director of the in Târgoviște and in the summer of 1913 he participated in the Second Balkan War as officer in the reserves. When Romania entered World War I in 1916 on the side of the Allies, he joined the Romanian Land Forces as a lieutenant. From 1917 to 1918 he was the director of studies at the military academy in Dorohoi. and in 1928, he served as director of the Cluj National Theatre.

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