Relația dintre Gh. Pavelescu și Ion Mușlea – de la devenire, la roade, în studierea culturii tradiționale și desăvârșirea unei frumoase prietenii

The Relationship between Gh. Pavelescu and Ion Mușlea – from the Beginnings to Fruitfulness, in Studying the Traditional Culture and in Cultivating a Close Friendship (Abstract) The article presents the productive relationship between two researchers in ethnography and folklore. Ion Mușlea, the director of the "Folklore Archive of the Romanian Academy" , wrote an appeal to the villages' intellectuals to help him in collecting folklore by distributing folkloric questionnaires. The teachers at the " Aurel Vlaicu" high school in Orăștie asked their pupils if they would be interested in helping. One of the students, being born in a mountain village and having folklore in his blood, offered to complete the questionnaire. His name was Gheorghe Pavelescu and he did an excellent job. Pavelescu became a skilled collector and Mușlea rewarded him with social prestige, books, and money. By chance, another person from Pavelescu's village met Ion Mușlea in Cluj and passed on the news that Mușlea was asking about the young student. Pavelescu took this as a good sign and enrolled at the University of Cluj. While he was an undergraduate, Mușlea helped him with living expenses and research. They worked together for many years and the relationship between the two personalities is a remarkable example of how such academic collaborations can become life-long friendship.