Constantin Antoniade was a Romanian

Romanians

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 jurist, writer, historian, philosopher and diplomat.

As a historian he was a concerned mainly with the Renaissance

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

. He also translated works of John Ruskin

John Ruskin

John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political...

 and Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher during the Victorian era.He called economics "the dismal science", wrote articles for the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, and became a controversial social commentator.Coming from a strict Calvinist family, Carlyle was...

 into Romanian.

He participated in the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 as juridical expert. As a diplomat he was Romanian representative to the League of Nations

League of Nations

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 from 1928 to 1936. After the Communist regime

Communist Romania

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 took power in Romania, Constantin Antoniade received the authorization from Iuliu Maniu

Iuliu Maniu

Iuliu Maniu was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian politician. A leader of the National Party of Transylvania and Banat before and after World War I, he served as Prime Minister of Romania for three terms during 1928–1933, and, with Ion Mihalache, co-founded the National Peasants'...

 and Dinu Brătianu

Dinu Bratianu

Dinu Brătianu , born Constantin I. C. Brătianu, was a Romanian politician, who led the National Liberal Party starting with 1934.-Early career:...

 to make contacts in the western countries on behalf of the Romanian Liberal Party

National Liberal Party (Romania)

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 and the National Peasants' Party

National Peasants' Party

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.

In 1948, Constantin Antoniade served as member of the Directing Committee of the Association for the Help of Romanian Refugees CAROMAN, created in Paris founded by Nicholas Caranfil as a representative of the Free Romanian Red Cross. The other members of the committee were Raoul Bossy

Raoul Bossy

Raoul V. Bossy was a Romanian diplomat.Born in 1894 he pursued his university studies at the Sorbonne, in Paris, where he graduated as Licentiate in Law...

, Mihai Răuţ and Dan Geblescu.

Works

• C. Antoniade, Filosofia lui Henri Bergson - Studii filosofice, Bucureşti, 1908, Vol. II
• Constantin Antoniade - Figuri din cinquecento: principese, curteni si curtizane - Fundatia pentru Literatura si Arta "Regele Carol II", Bucureşti 1939
• Constantin Antoniade - Trois Figures de la Renaissance: Pierre Arétin, Guichardin, Benvenuto Cellini. - Paris: Brouwer 1937.
• Constantin Antoniade - Macchiavelli (reedited Timişoara, 1993)