Link to the Show / Show NotesRumania has always had a strong cultural tradition and the month long George Enescu Music festival is just one example of the country’s vibrant cultural life.
Theodor Paleologu has been Rumania’s Minister of Culture, Religious Affairs, and Cultural Heritage since 2008 and is a member of Rumania’s Democratic Liberal Party.
Born in Bucharest, Paleologu completed his secondary schooling at the city's German High School. Tertiary studies took him to Paris where he obtained a masters degree in Philosophy and later a doctorate in Political Sciences at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich.
Paleologu has lectured at Boston and Deep Spring Colleges and was a research fellow at the University of Notre Dame, New York University and Harvard University and assistant professor and director of the summer university at the European College of Liberal Arts in Berlin.
Between 2005 and 2008, Theodor Paleologu served as Romania's ambassador to Denmark and Iceland and resigned from the office in order to pursue his successful parliamentary campaign.
In this week’s Inspired Minds, Theodor Paleologu talks to Breandáin O’Shea about the role of the arts in Romanian society, his struggle to safe as much of the country’s heritage sites and his deepest wish that Romania will one day be able to entice its many great artists back to their homeland.
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