Paul Sterian

He earned a degree magna cum laude, with a thesis on the emotions and the endocrine glands, applying a theory by Constantin Ion Parhon.

From 1926 to 1929, he studied at the University of Paris; Sterian's second doctoral thesis, in law and economics, had to do with Romania and World War I reparations.

[1] He was valued by Dimitrie Gusti, performing psychotechnic tests in a rural environment as part of the sociologist's research teams and working on the 1929 film about Drăguș village.

[1] In the late 1950s, he was arrested and sent to Aiud Prison; it is possible that this was due not to his work during the Ion Antonescu regime but because of his affiliation with the "Burning Pyre" (Rugul Aprins) Romanian Orthodox prayer group.

[2] His literary work appeared in Contimporanul, Azi, Floarea de foc, Gândirea, Cuvântul, unu and Viața Românească.