ION NICOLAE, PROF.UNIV.DR. FACULTY OF GEOGRAPHY, UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST

 PERSONAL DATA. Date of birth: October 26, 1945 (Bucharest); Education: High School, Brasov (1959 1963); University of Bucharest Faculty of Geology Geography, Department of Geography (1963 1968). PhD: PhD in Geography from the University of Bucharest (1999); thesis title: "Suburbanism/suburbs as a geographical phenomenon in Romania"; the "Summa cum laude" distinction; guide: acad. Prof. Dr. Doc. Victor Tufescu; published. Jobs: Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest (since 1969); retired in 2010, external collaborating teacher until 2020. Marital status: married, two children, four grandchildren. Known foreign languages: French, English, Spanish, Russian. E-mail: ionnicolae1945@yahoo.com

 Specialization: anthropogeography, more precisely social geography, economic geography and geographical toponymy.

Contributions:

• The main contribution is the development and explanation of the extremely complex relations between the city and the adjacent space and the attempt to put in the true light the suburban reality, far from the pejorative meaning rooted in the ordinary language of Romania.

● It also contributed to a true mass, mass culture through the more than 500,000 copies in which, after 1975 in its 16 editions, the "Encyclopedia of the States of the World" was printed; also through the volumes dedicated to the UNESCO World Heritage (premiere in Romania) and to the syntheses dedicated to the continents of the world published in several editions between 1998 and 2009. It consolidated the Romanian geographical toponymy.● He made known in Romanian geography the geographical work of the great philosopher Immanuel Kant and also amplified the knowledge in the Romanian space of the works of the great geographers Carl Ritter and Elisée Reclus.● Contributes to the knowledge, in the Romanian space, of the oldest European Cultural Itinerary, Camino de Santiago / Chemin de Compostelle / Saint James ’Way. Published works: 62 volumes, several maps included in the National Atlas of Romania, 38 articles, etc. Volumes and studies (by selection):1978 Problems of urbanization in southern Transylvania, Geography Studies, University of Bucharest, p. 391-399.1997 Human Geography and Toponymics in Transylvania, Anglo Romanian Geographies, Liverpool Hope Press.2000 Changes of Romanian Place names during the Communist era (1948 1989), Post Communist Romania: Geographical Perspectives, Liverpool Hope Press.2002 Suburbanism as a geographical phenomenon in Romania, Meronia Publishing House, Bucharest, 400 p. (Doctoral thesis).2003  Toponymy and the Communist city: street names in Bucharest, 1948-1965, GeoJournal, 56 ,, Issue 2, 2002, pp. 135-144, Kluwer Academic Publishers. (Light D., N.I., Suditu B.).1985 States of the World, Scientific and Encyclopedic Publishing House, Bucharest, 814 p., 170 maps, about 300 photos. (Matei H, Neguţ S., N.I.).1996 The Danube - a Major Geographical and Political co-ordinate of Romania, The first Romanian British geographic seminar, University of Bucharest Publishing House, p. 75-82 (Marin I., N.I.).1998 Encyclopedia of Europe, Meronia Publishing House, Bucharest, 400 p., 47 maps (Matei H., Negut S., N.I.).1999 Encyclopedia of Asia, Meronia Publishing House, Bucharest, 352 p., 47 maps (Matei H, Neguţ S., N.I., Radu C.).2000 Encyclopedia of Australia and Oceania, Meronia Publishing House, Bucharest, 208 p., 30 maps (N.I., Matei H., Negut S., Radu C.).2004 Communism and the Urban Landscapes: street names in Bucharest, Annals of Bucharest University, Geography series, L, Bucharest (N. I., Suditu B., Light D.)2005 UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage, Encyclopedia of Geographical Records, Meronia Publishing House, 358 pages (coll. Neguţ S.).2005 Anthropogeography (General human and economic geography), University Publishing House, 184 pages.2006. Geographical toponymy, Meronia Publishing House, Bucharest, 276 p.2007. Immanuel Kant - contributions to the creation of modern geography, Communications of Geography, XI, Bucharest, pp.272-276.2007. States of the European Union - encyclopedia, Meronia Publishing House, 302 p., (Matei H., Ghinescu L., Neguţ S., N.I., Vintilă-Rădulescu I.).2007 Superlatives of the Earth - an encyclopedia, Meronia Publishing House, 360 p., (Neguţ S., N.I.).2008. Romanian and international toponymy, Meronia Publishing House, 337 p., 15 fig., (N.I., Suditu, B.).2008. Capitals of European States, Meronia Publishing House, 280 p. (Negut S., N.I.).2008. The role of toponyms in the organization of the didactic process, Geography Communications, X, Edit.Univ. Bucharest (Nicolae I., Enica S.).2008. Victor C. Tufescu, homage volume, “Geographic Treasure” Collection, University Publishing House, 293 p. (Co-editor).2009. Anthropogeography - a diachronic approach, University Publishing House, 236 p., Bucharest.2009. Romanian Toponymy - Orientation Landmarks, Revue of Historical Geography and Toponomastics, IV, 2008, published 2009, Timişoara.2009. Encyclopedia of the Americas, Meronia Publishing House, 2nd revised and added edition, 398 p. (In coll.).2009. Anthropogeography - a diachronic approach, University Publishing House, 236 p., Bucharest.2010, Places Names as Border Posts in Collective Memory, Human Geographies, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2010, pp.17-31.2014. Camino de Santiago - the road that made Europe, Meronia Publishing House, Bucharest, 2 vol., 700 p.2018. Romania, space traveled by medieval pilgrims, in rev. Ad Limina, volume 9, pp.41-59.2020. Encyclopedia of the States of the World, 16th edition, Meronia Publishing House, Bucharest, 841 p, over 200 maps, 195 photos (Matei H.,  Neguţ S., N.I.).2022. El Camino - a day, a story, Meronia Publishing House, 192 p. (coord.) Note: Since 2006, he has traveled the roads of Spain, Portugal and France on the routes of the millennium pilgrimage route to the Galician capital, Santiago de Compostela, in whose cathedral are the relics of the Apostle James, one of the Savior's closest collaborators. And since 2016 he has been campaigning in writing, through conferences and in the field for Romania’s reintegration into the European “Santiago” space, as president-founder of the Camino de Santiago Friends Association.February-march 2022.