Lucia Berciu ? a teacher that opened new roads

From 1950 up to 1991, when the faculty of International Relations was established, the Chair for Foreign Languages was part of the Faculty of Commerce (at present Faculty of Business and Turism. „Between 1968 and 1976 functioned the Chair for German Languages” (Mariana Nicolae) and its Chef was Professor Lucia Berciu. Lucia Berciu was „Asistant PhD. (1944-1953), Lecturer PhD. (19531969), Seniour Lecturer PhD. (1969-1977), Professor PhD. (1977-1979)” (Lora Constantinescu), and confirm as a promotor of the study of the German languages at the Commercial Academy and later at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (ASE). In the university year 1951-1952 she was the first employee at the Chair for German Languages (also only one employee had the Chair for English Languages), and in the same time the Chair for Russian Languages had 32 professors and the Chair for French Languages had four professors. After 1989, Lucia Berciu was consultant professor and in the next decade she was translator and author of university manuals. Between 1968 (Manual de limba germană pentru anii II-III/ Manual for german Languages for the II.-III. year, Faculty of Commerce, Section Foreign Commerce, Lito ASE) and 1999 (Germana pentru studenți/ German for Students, Editor Silvy) she was author or co-author for 11 manuals and university courses. In the picture below Professor Lucia Berciu is looking back nostalgically to past success and efforts of the chosen carreer. (Nicolae Lupu)