Constantin Ardeleanu
Biographic Data
| ID | 4048508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Constantin Ardeleanu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Constantin |
| FAMILY NAME | Ardeleanu |
| SIGNATURE | ARDELEANU C |
| AFFILIATIONS | New Europe College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9285-6126 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Improvised Infrastructure
This article examines the construction of two military railways built on Romanian territory during the Russo–Ottoman War of 1877–1878: the Bender – Reni – Galați connecting line and the Frătești – Zimnicea branch, which linked the railway network to the Danube bridgehead at Zimnicea – Svištov. Drawing on contemporary documents, it reconstructs how these lines were planned and built under the pressures of wartime conditions. The article argues tha…
An Institution “of Ignorant Times” or a “Modern and Rational” One? Romanian Views of Quarantines in late Nineteenth Century
The Hallier Affair, Political Corruption and National Dignity in Romania in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
In 1895, the Romanian government entered into a contractual agreement whereby the French entrepreneur Adrien Hallier was tasked with the construction of modern port facilities in the Black Sea port of Constanța. In due course, disagreements between the two partners intensified, ultimately resulting in the formation of an arbitration tribunal tasked with resolving the matter. During the dispute, political elites and the public advanced a plethora …
Dobrogea’s Iron Road towards Romania
This article examines the complex relationship between the Romanian government and a consortium of British investors regarding the fate of the Constanța – Cernavodă railway in Dobrogea, a province ceded to Romania in 1878. The railway, constructed by a British company (DBSR) in the late 1850s, encountered operational challenges under Ottoman rule and failed to generate the anticipated dividends for its shareholders. After a brief introduction in …
The “Inquiry” and American Research on the Balkan Borders (1918)
This paper examines the work of the American “Inquiry” during World War I, focusing on its research and recommendations concerning the postwar borders of the Balkan states, with a special focus on the Romanian-Bulgarian boundary in the region of Dobrudja. Based on materials from the Yale Inquiry Papers – an archival collection that includes draft reports and internal documents – the study reconstructs the biographies and views of key members of t…
Romania and the International Sanitary Conferences of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
This paper traces Romania’s participation in the International Sanitary Conferences of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Romania’s interest in international sanitary diplomacy was directly linked to the country’s geographical location and the role of the Danube in the spread of epidemics. The cholera outbreak that reached the Lower Danube in 1865 demonstrated that the river, which connected the Levant to Central Europe via steams…
From ‘the dirtiest to the best water’ in Romania. Public health, sanitary diplomacy and water in Sulina (1890s-1914)
In the late nineteenth century, Sulina, a settlement of about 10,000 inhabitants, was Romania’s busiest port. Located at the mouth of the only navigable branch of the Danube, the town held a strategic position along South-Eastern European transportation corridors, being the gateway of Lower Danubian trade and shipping. But Sulina was also a hydrobiological melting pot of natural and anthropogenic water flows carried by the Danube, the Black Sea’s…
‘A Right Inherent in Sovereignty’. Romania, the European Commission of the Danube and the Sulina Sanitary Service (1878–1884)
This paper analyses the dispute that emerged in 1878 between Romania and the European Commission of the Danube, a techno-political organisation composed of delegates from Europe’s Great Powers, over which side had the right to enforce sanitary policies at Sulina. On the one hand, since Sulina was part of the territory granted in 1878 to Romania, whose independence had been recognised by the Great Powers through the Berlin Treaty, the government i…
Riding the Line. Expertise and the Making of the Bessarabian Border, 1856–1857
This article aims to historicise the making of the border between the Russian and Ottoman empires in southern Bessarabia, drawn in the post-Crimean War context in 1856–1857. An international commission was appointed for this purpose, and delegates from five empires – Austrian, British, French, Russian and Ottoman – gathered in the province on the ground to demarcate the border decided by Europe's powers. Based on the commission's lengthy protocol…
Commercial and political needs demand the establishment of a Black Sea port”
This paper is the biography of a failed infrastructural project: that of building a Romanian seaport and of linking it to the mainland via a canal and/or a railway. It details its rich life, its initiators and partisans, but also its (mostly foreign) contenders; “born” in the early 1860s in a certain geopolitical, economic or infrastructural environment, the initiative morphed in the coming years in close connection and in direct competition with…
Steamboat Sociality” along the Danube and the Black Sea (mid-1830s–mid-1850s)
This paper explores the social dimension of cruising by looking at new forms of sociality created by the advent of steamboats along the Danube and in the Black Sea. Since a Viennese steamship company introduced cruises between Vienna and Istanbul in the mid-1830s, Austrian steamboats became a busy stage of diverse social encounters. The idea of ships as “floating spaces”, “historical arenas” or “contact zones” in which different cultures meet has…
A British Meat Cannery in Moldavia (1844–52)
In June 1844, Stephen Goldner, a Jewish-born Hungarian entrepreneur residing in Britain, obtained approval from the Moldavian authorities to establish a cannery in Galatz. Involved for several years in preserving meats by means of an innovative technological process, Goldner attempted to benefit from the resources of the Romanian Principalities, particularly their rich agro-pastoral lands, where domesticated animals were extremely cheap. On the b…
The European Commission of the Danube and the Results of Its Technical and Administrative Activity on the Safety of Navigation, 1856–1914
The European Commission of the Danube and the Results of Its Technical and Administrative Activity on the Safety of Navigation, 1856–1914
Steamboat Sociality” along the Danube and the Black Sea (mid-1830s–mid-1850s)
This paper explores the social dimension of cruising by looking at new forms of sociality created by the advent of steamboats along the Danube and in the Black Sea. Since a Viennese steamship company introduced cruises between Vienna and Istanbul in the mid-1830s, Austrian steamboats became a busy stage of diverse social encounters. The idea of ships as “floating spaces”, “historical arenas” or “contact zones” in which different cultures meet has…
A British Meat Cannery in Moldavia (1844–52)
In June 1844, Stephen Goldner, a Jewish-born Hungarian entrepreneur residing in Britain, obtained approval from the Moldavian authorities to establish a cannery in Galatz. Involved for several years in preserving meats by means of an innovative technological process, Goldner attempted to benefit from the resources of the Romanian Principalities, particularly their rich agro-pastoral lands, where domesticated animals were extremely cheap. On the b…
The European Commission of the Danube and the Results of Its Technical and Administrative Activity on the Safety of Navigation, 1856–1914
A British Meat Cannery in Moldavia (1844–52)
In June 1844, Stephen Goldner, a Jewish-born Hungarian entrepreneur residing in Britain, obtained approval from the Moldavian authorities to establish a cannery in Galatz. Involved for several years in preserving meats by means of an innovative technological process, Goldner attempted to benefit from the resources of the Romanian Principalities, particularly their rich agro-pastoral lands, where domesticated animals were extremely cheap. On the b…
Steamboat Sociality” along the Danube and the Black Sea (mid-1830s–mid-1850s)
This paper explores the social dimension of cruising by looking at new forms of sociality created by the advent of steamboats along the Danube and in the Black Sea. Since a Viennese steamship company introduced cruises between Vienna and Istanbul in the mid-1830s, Austrian steamboats became a busy stage of diverse social encounters. The idea of ships as “floating spaces”, “historical arenas” or “contact zones” in which different cultures meet has…
From ‘the dirtiest to the best water’ in Romania. Public health, sanitary diplomacy and water in Sulina (1890s-1914)
In the late nineteenth century, Sulina, a settlement of about 10,000 inhabitants, was Romania’s busiest port. Located at the mouth of the only navigable branch of the Danube, the town held a strategic position along South-Eastern European transportation corridors, being the gateway of Lower Danubian trade and shipping. But Sulina was also a hydrobiological melting pot of natural and anthropogenic water flows carried by the Danube, the Black Sea’s…
‘A Right Inherent in Sovereignty’. Romania, the European Commission of the Danube and the Sulina Sanitary Service (1878–1884)
This paper analyses the dispute that emerged in 1878 between Romania and the European Commission of the Danube, a techno-political organisation composed of delegates from Europe’s Great Powers, over which side had the right to enforce sanitary policies at Sulina. On the one hand, since Sulina was part of the territory granted in 1878 to Romania, whose independence had been recognised by the Great Powers through the Berlin Treaty, the government i…
Riding the Line. Expertise and the Making of the Bessarabian Border, 1856–1857
This article aims to historicise the making of the border between the Russian and Ottoman empires in southern Bessarabia, drawn in the post-Crimean War context in 1856–1857. An international commission was appointed for this purpose, and delegates from five empires – Austrian, British, French, Russian and Ottoman – gathered in the province on the ground to demarcate the border decided by Europe's powers. Based on the commission's lengthy protocol…
Commercial and political needs demand the establishment of a Black Sea port”
This paper is the biography of a failed infrastructural project: that of building a Romanian seaport and of linking it to the mainland via a canal and/or a railway. It details its rich life, its initiators and partisans, but also its (mostly foreign) contenders; “born” in the early 1860s in a certain geopolitical, economic or infrastructural environment, the initiative morphed in the coming years in close connection and in direct competition with…
Romania and the International Sanitary Conferences of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
This paper traces Romania’s participation in the International Sanitary Conferences of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Romania’s interest in international sanitary diplomacy was directly linked to the country’s geographical location and the role of the Danube in the spread of epidemics. The cholera outbreak that reached the Lower Danube in 1865 demonstrated that the river, which connected the Levant to Central Europe via steams…
An Institution “of Ignorant Times” or a “Modern and Rational” One? Romanian Views of Quarantines in late Nineteenth Century
The Hallier Affair, Political Corruption and National Dignity in Romania in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
In 1895, the Romanian government entered into a contractual agreement whereby the French entrepreneur Adrien Hallier was tasked with the construction of modern port facilities in the Black Sea port of Constanța. In due course, disagreements between the two partners intensified, ultimately resulting in the formation of an arbitration tribunal tasked with resolving the matter. During the dispute, political elites and the public advanced a plethora …
Dobrogea’s Iron Road towards Romania
This article examines the complex relationship between the Romanian government and a consortium of British investors regarding the fate of the Constanța – Cernavodă railway in Dobrogea, a province ceded to Romania in 1878. The railway, constructed by a British company (DBSR) in the late 1850s, encountered operational challenges under Ottoman rule and failed to generate the anticipated dividends for its shareholders. After a brief introduction in …
The “Inquiry” and American Research on the Balkan Borders (1918)
This paper examines the work of the American “Inquiry” during World War I, focusing on its research and recommendations concerning the postwar borders of the Balkan states, with a special focus on the Romanian-Bulgarian boundary in the region of Dobrudja. Based on materials from the Yale Inquiry Papers – an archival collection that includes draft reports and internal documents – the study reconstructs the biographies and views of key members of t…
Improvised Infrastructure
This article examines the construction of two military railways built on Romanian territory during the Russo–Ottoman War of 1877–1878: the Bender – Reni – Galați connecting line and the Frătești – Zimnicea branch, which linked the railway network to the Danube bridgehead at Zimnicea – Svištov. Drawing on contemporary documents, it reconstructs how these lines were planned and built under the pressures of wartime conditions. The article argues tha…
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