In this article is followed Kantianism entering in the Romanian philosophical thought, starting in the first decades of the nineteenth century until the middle of this century. It demonstrated that the fi rst generation of Romanian kantianists – Gheorghe Lazăr, Eufrosin Poteca, Eftimie Murgu - was concerned with propagating the ideas of Kant, while the second generation, represented by August Treboniu Laurian, Simion Bărnuţiu, Timotei Cipariu and others, tends to critically and creatively address the Kantian philosophy.