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Kogălniceanu Mihail
(1817—1891)

Mihail Kogălniceanu was a Romanian statesman, historian and publicist; he became Prime minister of Romania October 11, 1863, after the union of the Danubian Principalities — Moldavia and Wallachia — under Domnitor Alexander John Cuza (the basis of modern Romania). He successfully proposed legislation to secularize the property of monasteries (adopted December 25, 1863). However, his efforts at land reform resulted in a censure vote, and he resigned in 1865.

Koganiceanu continued to publish at an amazing pace. In addition to publishing the first editions of the Moldovan chroniclers and other books and articles, he founded a string of periodicals: Aluata Romaneasca (1838), Foaie Sateasca (1839), Dacia Literara (1840), Arhiva Romaneasca (1840), Calendarelor pentru Poporul Romanesc (1842), and Propasirea (1843). In 1840, he became co-director (with Alecsandri and C. Negruzzi) of the National Theater in Iasi, while serving as Prince Sturdza's private secretary. In 1843, he gave a celebrated inaugural lecture on national history at the Academia Mihaileana in Iasi, a lecture which greatly influenced Romanian students in Paris and the 1848 generation, not least with its profession that "I view as my country everywhere on earth where Romanian is spoken, and as national history the history of all of Moldova (before its dismemberment), that of Muntenia, and that of our brothers in Transylvania." (Among other professors at the Academy were Ion Ghica, Eftimie Murgu, and Ion Ionescu de la Brad.)

Rumania, 1948, Vasile Alecsandri

Rumania, 1966, Radulescu, Kogalniceanu, Savulesku

Rumania, 1967, Michail Kogălniceanu

Rumania, 1984, Words of Michail Kogălniceanu

Rumania, 1991, Michail Kogălniceanu

Moldova, 2005.05.27, Chisnau. Mihail Kogălniceanu

Moldova, 2005, Mihail Kogalniceanu Museum