Iosif Constantin Drăgan

In 1967, he started the "European Foundation Drăgan", a foundation which has the goal to promote the "values of the Romanian civilization". He is also the founder of two publishing houses (Nagard in Italy and Europa Nova in Romania), a privately-owned university, Universitatea Europeană Drăgan (founded in 1991 in Lugoj), a TV station, a radio station (Radio NovaFm) and a weekly newspaper (Redeşteptarea) and a daily local newspaper (Redeşteptarea Bănăţeană), all in Romania. He also funded the construction, near Orşova, of the Statue of Decebalus, a 40-meter high statue that is the tallest rock sculpture in Europe.

He has written many historical works associated with the Protochronism nationalist movement in Romanian history, which was later promoted by Nicolae Ceauşescu's regime. Katherine Verdery, National Ideology under Socialism. Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceauşescu's Romania, University of California Press, 1991. ISBN 0-520-20358-5 Despite being a sympathiser of the Iron Guard, Drăgan became a semi-official collaborated with Ceauşescu and as a result, he had access to some documents never published before on Ion Antonescu, using them in a four volume-book which put him in a good light. [Report of the International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania] (RICHR) submitted to President Ion Iliescu in Bucharest on November 11, 2004, [and accepted by the Romanian government].

After the revolution, he supported financially Eugen Barbu and Corneliu Vadim Tudor to launched their far-right Greater Romania (România Mare) newspaper. Together with Corneliu Vadim Tudor, he was the founder of "Liga Mareşal Ion Antonescu" in 1990, later renamed to "Liga Mareşalilor", following the changes in the Romanian legislation, which disallowed this.

Drăgan married when he was aged 78 with Daniela Veronica Guşe, a woman aged 22, who was the daughter of the Ştefan Guşe, a Romanian Army General who disappeared in strange circumstances during the 1989 Romanian Revolution a.Ziua ["Fiul rătăcitor în căutarea lui Iosif Constantin Drăgan"] 9 June 2005 Drăgan also has an older son, Mike Fink, born in 1971, who, in 2005, announced could not contact by any way his father in the previous three years. The Ziua newspaper reached the conclusion that Drăgan was being held captive by his younger wife and his business partners. Ziua, ["Drăgan, tot în geam"], 6 June 2005 However, he was seen dining in a restaurant only a few days later in Bucharest, together with his wife.Averea, "L-am descoperit pe I.C. Dragăn". 14 June 2005

Publications

History

• 1973: Romania: paese dei due mondi, Nagard/Milano
• 1976: Noi tracii şi istoria noastra multimilenară, Scrisul Românesc/Craiova (1976), Dacia (1980)
• *Translations:
• *We, the Thracians and our multimillenary history, Nagard/Milano (1976)
• *Les Roumains, peuple multimillénaire de l'Europe, Editions Europe/Rome (1983)
• 1977: Aurel C. Popovici
• 1977: Idealuri şi destine: eseu asupra evoluţiei conştiinţei europene, Cartea Românească
• 1986: Mileniul imperial al Daciei, Editura Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică
• 1986: Antonescu. Mareşalul României şi războaiele de reîntregire, (4 vols.), Nagard/Venice (1986-1990), Fundaţia Europeană Drăgan (1991),
• 1993: Il mondo dei Traci, Nagard/Rome
• 1994: Istoria Românilor, Europa Nova/Bucharest
• 1996: Adevarata istorie a românilor, Nagard/Milano
• 2000: Imperiul romano-trac, Europa Nova/Bucharest

Autobiography

• 1971: În serviciul Europei, Nagard/Milano
• 1973-2005: Prin Europa (5 vols./2112 pages) Editura Eminescu/Dacia (1973-80), Europa Nova (1997), RAO (2005) ISBN 9735768267
• *Uitarea este, în fond, o trădare
• *Europa Phoenix
• *În drum spre Roma
• *În lumea petrolului
• *Mediterana, vrajă şi primejdie
• 1982: Din ţara lui Dracula, Nagard/Milano
• 1990: Italia mea, Franco Orlandi/Milano

Marketing and others

• 1972: Marketing for Africa's development, Nagard/Milan
• 1972: Tabele pentru trasarea curbelor la proiectarea şi execuţia căilor de comunicaţie with D. A. Sburlan, Ceres/Bucharest
• 1986: Entropy and bioeconomics : the new paradigm of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, with Mihai C. Demetrescu, Nagard/Milano, (1986-1991)
• 1987: Geoclimate and history, Nagard/Rome, with Ştefan Airinei
• * in Romanian: Geoclima şi istoria, Europa Nova (1993)
• 1996: Practica prospectarii pieţei: tehnici de cercetare în marketing, with M. C. Demetrescu, Europa Nova
• 1998: Noul marketing la începutul mileniului III, with M. C. Demetrescu, Europa Nova

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