Ioan Hudiță (August 1, 1896 – March 21, 1982) was aRomanian historian and politician.
Born inBogdănești,Baia County, he attended gymnasium atFălticeni (1907–1911) and high school inIași (1911–1914). He then enteredIași University, studying history and geography within the letters faculty, and in the law faculty. He earned two degrees: in law (1918) and in geography, letters and philosophy (1919). From 1919 to 1921, he taught at Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu High School inChișinău. In 1927, he obtained a doctorate from theUniversity of Paris, with a thesis about 17th-century relations between France and thePrincipality of Transylvania. He was associate professor of diplomatic history at Iași University from 1928 to 1935, as well as teaching at the Military High School. From 1935 to 1938, he was associate professor at theAcademy of Higher-level Commercial and Industrial Studies inBucharest. Teaching diplomatic history, he held a similar rank in theUniversity of Bucharest’s history faculty from 1941 to 1944, rising to full professor from 1944 to 1947.[1]
A member of theNational Peasants' Party, of which he was adjunct general secretary from 1940, he was first elected to theAssembly of Deputiesin 1932. From 1944 to 1945, he was Agriculture Minister underConstantin Sănătescu andNicolae Rădescu. In October 1947, he was arrested by theRomanian Communist Party-dominated government. Held atVăcărești,Craiova andSighet prisons, he was released in December 1955. From 1956 to 1959, he was principal researcher at Bucharest's Nicolae Iorga History Institute. He was again under arrest from December 1961 to July 1962. He collected archival documents about Romania in Paris, London, Brussels and Berlin, which he did not have a chance to publish. He wrote studies aboutFranco-Romanian diplomatic relations, and about the modern history of Romania. He left unpublished studies of the May 1864 coup, the 1862-1863 Constantinople conference resulting in the definitiveUnion of the Principalities, and the issue ofcapitulations and the great powers during the time ofAlexandru Ioan Cuza. He died in Bucharest.[1]
His daughter, Ioana (1922–2008), was married to historianDan Berindei. The two had a son, noted historianMihnea Berindei (1948–2016). Their daughter, Ruxandra, was born in 1951 at Văcărești Prison, while her mother was incarcerated there;[2] Dan Berindei only saw his daughter after 11 months, while Ioana was still detained atMislea Prison.[3]