Henri H. Stahl

Henry H. Stahl (1901-1991)

Henri H. Stahl (also known as Henry H. Stahl or H. H. Stahl) (4 November 1901 — 9 September 1991) was a Romanian Marxist cultural anthropologist, ethnographer, sociologist, jurist, member of the Academy, and social historian. Important contributor to the reinstatement of sociological teaching and research after 1965. He had a determining role in the elaboration of the methodology of field sociological monographs. He participated at virtually all monographic campaigns of the School; he wrote the first complete monograph – the one of Nerej. He is the founder of Romanian historical sociology. He is also the first researcher from Romania who used statistics and archaeological history in historical research. He proposed a new periodization of the history of Romanians.

Biography

Born in Bucharest, he was the son of Henri Stahl (a promoter of stenography) and of the novelist Henriette Yvonne Stahl. He was married to Margareta, a known painter. After completing law studies and being awarded a doctorate, Stahl became interested in the work of Dimitrie Gusti, and was consequently one of his most prominent collaborators, professor at the University of Bucharest until the elimination of the discipline in 1948. Joining the staff of the Department of Sociology, Ethics, Politics and Aesthetics at the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Letters and Philosophy (where he later became a professor emeritus), Stahl first assisted Gusti and Gheorghe Vlădescu-Răcoasa in the vast interdisciplinary enterprise of creating monographs dedicated to Romanian villages. In 1936, Gusti and Stahl, together with Victor Ion Popa, established the Bucharest Village Museum.

Works

Books

• Tehnica monografiei sociologice, Studii şi contribuţii, nr. 2, Bucharest: Editura Institutului Social Român, 1934; re-print, Bucharet: SNSPA - Facultatea de Comunicare şi Relaţii Publice "David Ogilvy ", 2001.

• Şcoala monografiei sociologice, [Bucharest], 1936, PDF.

• Nerej, un village d'une région archaïque: Les manifestations économiques, juridiques et administratives. Unités, procès et tendances sociales: Institut de sciences sociales de Roumanie, vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, Bucharest: Institut de Science Sociale de Roumania, 1939. (French)

• Pentru sat, [Bucharest]: Fundaţia Culturală Regală Principele Carol, 1939, PDF.

• Sociologia, [manual unic pentru clasa a VIII-a a şcoalelor secundare], Bucharest: 1945;

• Sociologia satului devălmaş românesc, Bucureşti: Fundaţia Regele Mihai I, 1946.

• Contribuţii la studiul satelor devălmaşe româneşti, Bucharest: Acad. RSR, 3 vols., 1958-1965.

• Les anciennes communautés villageoises roumaines; asservissement et pénétration capitaliste, Bucarest et Paris: Ėditions de I'Académie de la Républica socialiste de Roumanie et de CNRS, 1969. (French)

• Organizarea Administrativ-teritorială. Comentarii sociologice, Bucharest: Sţiintifică, 1969, PDF.

• Studii de sociologie istorică, Bucureşti: Editura Ştiinţifică, 1972, PDF.

• Teoria şi practica investigărilor sociale, Vol I. Metode şi tehnici., Bucharest: Ştiinţifică, 1974, PDF.

• Organizarea Administrativ-teritorială. Teoria şi practica investigărilor sociale, vol. 2, Bucharest: Sţiintifică, 1975, PDF.

• Traditional Romanian Village Communities: The Transition from the Communal to the capitalist mode of Production in the Danube Region, trans. Daniel Chirot and Holley Coulter Chirot, Cambridge University Press & Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1980, PDF. (English)

• Teorii şi ipoteze privind sociologia orânduirii tributale, Bucharest, 1980.

• Amintiri şi gânduri din vechea şcoală a 'monografiilor sociologice' , Bucharest: Minerva, 1981, PDF.

• Eseuri critice. Despre cultura populară românească, Bucharest: Minerva, 1983, PDF, IA, ARG.

• Dimitrie Gusti. Studii critice, Bucharest, 1986.

• Probleme confuze în istoria socială a României, Bucharest, 1992.

• Istoria socială a satului românesc – o culegere de texte, Bucureşti: Paideia, 2002 Review.

Articles

(selection)

• "Vatra satului Cornova" [1932], Arhiva pentru Ştiinţă şi Reforma Socială, X(1-4), pp. 118-135, PDF.
• "Vicleiul din Târgu-Jiu" [1936], Sociologie românească, anul I, nr. 12, 1936, pp. 15-32, PDF.
• "Un seminar de monografie sociologică" [1942], Sociologie românească, anul IV, nr. 1-4, 1942, PDF.
• "Experiența echipelor regale studenţeşti" [1935], Revista Fundațiilor Regale (1 ianuarie 1935), pp. 140-152, PDF.
• "Satul românesc. O discuție de filosofia și sociologia culturii" [1937], in Sociologie Românească, II, pp. 489-502.
• "Filosofarea despre filosofia popurului român" [1938], Sociologie Românească, III, pp. 104-119.
• "Teoria abisală a d-lui Lucian Blaga" [1938], Sociologie Românească, III(1-3), pp. 10-18, PDF.
• "Sociologia "concretă" şi istorie" [1969], chap. in Teorie şi metodă în știinţele sociale, Vol. VII: Filozofia istoriei. Studii, Bucarest: Politică, 1969.
• "Metode si moravuri 'stiintifice'" [1945], Revista Fundatiilor Regale, an XII( nr.1), pp. 155-167.
• "Théories des processus de <<modernisation>> des Principautés Danubiennes et de l'ancien Royaume de Roumanie (1850-1920)", [1993], Review (Fernand Braudel Center), pp. 85-111.
• "Satul Dragus, dupa 40 de ani" [1972], Viitorul social, 1, nr. 2, pp. 517-528, PDF.

Bibliography

Printed

• Paul H. Stahl, Henri H. Stahl. Gânditori şi curente de istorie socială românească [Henri H. Stahl. Thinkers and Trends in the Romanian Social History], edition of texts and bibliography, Bucharest: Biblioteca Institutului Social Român, 2001 [1]

On-line

• compiled by Dumitru Sandu

Literature

Books

• Zoltán Rostás, Monografia ca utopie: interviuri cu Henri H. Stahl (interviews), Bucharest: Paideia, 2000 [2].
• Z. Rostás, Atelierul gustian: o abordare organizaţională, Bucharest: Tritonic, 2005.

Articles

• Alina Juravle, "Henri H. Stahl – un sociolog social-democrat", Sfera Politicii, nr. 175, with English abstract]

Links

• Stahl at Wikipedia
• Stahl at Romanian Wikipedia
• Stahl at Crispedia
• Stahl on Enciclopedia Romaniei (Romanian)
• Article on Adevarul.ro (Romanian)
• In memoriam Paul H. Stahl
• Article on Romanian Monography
• http://irinamonica.wordpress.com/tag/henri-h-stahl/
• http://sas.unibuc.ro/index.pl/henri_h._stahl_hhs