User:HarZim/Carol Aronovici

Carol Aronovici was a Romanian-American pioneer in the field of urban planning.

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He was born the son of an agrarian lawyer on September 18, 1881 in Botoșani, the capital city of Botoșani County, in the northern part of Moldavia, Romania. In 1900, along with six others, he was expelled from Romania for advocating peasant’s rights. Aronovici immigrated to the United States, where upon his arrival he worked as a laborer while teaching other immigrants in New Jersey. He acquired sufficient English to pass the entrance examinations at Cornell University and there earned bachelor's and master's degrees, followed by a PhD at Brown Universityin 1911.