“To this day I still consider him the most gifted sociologist who has ever taken part in our monographic campaigns.”
Anton Golopenția, a Banat native like himself and Octavian Neamțu, was a completely different person. I met him in the same year, 1930, when he wrote me a touching letter asking for my support to take up the post of librarian at the Sociology Seminary. He was still a very young, shy and modest law graduate. But he showed himself to be something more than a lawyer: he was a lover of the social sciences, and even then he had a rich reading list that went far beyond the codes, open to philosophical as well as historical and sociological questions. […]