Irina Nastasă-Matei

A Chapter of Student Migration History: Romanians at the University of Munich before Second World War

Irina Nastasă-Matei

Article information

Volume: XII Issue: 2, Pages: 99-118
https://doi.org/10.24193/RJPS.2018.2.05
Irina Nastasă-Matei
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Political Science
Calea Plevnei, 59, 010223, Bucharest, Romania
irina.matei@fspub.unibuc.ro

Abstract

There never was a main cultural center in Germany, as it was, for example, the city of Paris in France. In the case of Germany, especially the cultural and academic life was characterized by decentralization. Rather than having a Sorbonne, like France had, Germany had very specialized institutions of higher education and their prestige was given by their achievements in a certain field of study or another.
However, Munich can be considered a great German cultural center. First, it housed three major institutions of higher education: Ludwig-Maximilian University, the Technical University and the Academy of Arts. Secondly, there were many other cultural institutions to be found in Munich. And thirdly, it was one of the favourite cities of the foreigners who studied in Germany.
This article aims to establish Munich’s place in the international cultural cooperation and especially in the students’ exchanges during the interwar period. Thus, we focused on the presence of foreign students at Ludwig-Maximilian University, emphasizing on the situation of the students coming from Romania.

Keywords: student migration, cultural policies, higher education, Munich, Germany

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