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In Romania\u2019s local history we find important names who got involved in social and charitable work for their native regions or contributed to the development of their birthplace. Others excelled in the cultural field and thus helped promote their regions. The history of Gorj, in south-western Romania, is dominated by the name of the great sculptor Constantin Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i, but Gorj has given other important names to Romanian history. It is also the birthplace of Tudor Vladimirescu, the leader of the revolutionary movement of 1821; of Gheorghe Magheru, one of the leaders of the 1848 revolution; of actress Elvira Godeanu, philosopher George Usc\u0103tescu, and the politicians Gheorghe T\u0103t\u0103rescu, Grigore Iunian and Vasile Lasc\u0103r. Entrepreneur, politician and lobbyist Dinc\u0103 Schileru also hailed from Gorj. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Dinc\u0103 Schileru <\/span><\/span>was born in<\/span><\/span> 1846 <\/span><\/span>and died in <\/span><\/span>1919, <\/span><\/span>aged 72, into a family of wealthy peasants. One of his predecessors was a soldier in the army of Tudor Vladimirescu. Schileru was the first peasant to be elected to the Romanian Parliament. He may have come from the ranks of the peasants, but he was by no means poor. In 1868 he got married and moved to his wife\u2019s village, where he built a family home, a church and a school, helping poor children get an education. He began his business career with a small tailor\u2019s workshop and then moved into entrepreneurship and trading in grains, fruit tree growing and vine growing. He built mills and machines for processing wood and was passionate about horses. His business acumen and success did not only bring about wealth but also prestige among the people in his village. He was said to be a man with a strong personality and proud of his origins. Dinc\u0103 Schileru helped promote the region\u2019s traditional costume and his community placed its trust on him by electing him its representative to the local council in 1876, aged 30, and later to the Romanian Parliament in 1879, as a Liberal MP. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Gheorghe Nichifor studied Dinc\u0103 Schileru\u2019s life and struggle of social and economic emancipation. He showed how Schileru took politics very seriously and tenaciously dedicated himself to the economic improvement of his native region:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDinc\u0103 Schileru was a member in the Romanian Parliament despite only having gone to school for 40 days, now and then from 1887 until 1911. He did not use beautiful words, but had a talent for repeating his ideas until they stuck with the the members of Parliament. Here\u2019s an example: We have mines in Gorj, we have coal in Schela. He went to London with a piece of coal, showed it to the British MPs, told them where it came from and that\u2019s how investors showed up in Gorj. He himself did some oil prospecting in B\u00e2lteni, the village of his wife, and it was later confirmed that there was, indeed, oil in the area.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Schileru <\/span><\/span>was therefore someone who was good at making money and he also put this skill in areas other than agriculture and wood processing, even becoming a patron of the arts. Gheorghe Nichifor explains:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDinc\u0103 Schileru at some point had his own newspaper. And he also had his own tailor\u2019s workshop, which produced his famous outfit. He built schools. He even contributed to the construction of the county museum, which today houses the bell he donated to the school in St\u0103ne\u0219ti and which was used not only to assemble the pupils but also to sound the breakfast, lunch and dinner time for the people in the village.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Energetic and willing to make things move, Schileru was considered the epitomy of a successful man, with wealth and offspring to leave his wealth to. He gave confidence to the people who elected him and he was even remembered in local folk songs and rhymes. G<\/span><\/span>heorghe Nichifor:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe had a descendant called Aristic\u0103 Schileru. He was a senator in the Romanian Parliament but died young, aged 40. Another descendant was a first tier football player who was also called Schileru, whose name may ring familiar to those who are a bit older.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Dinc\u0103 Schileru <\/span><\/span>was a man of his times. He put his qualities both to his own service and that of his community. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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