Romanian Masons

Gheorghe Asachi or Asaki (March 1, 1788 - November 12, 1869) was a Moldavian-born Romanian prose writer, poet, painter, historian, dramatist and translator. An Enlightenment-educated polymath and polyglot, he was one of the most influential people of his generation. Asachi was a respected journalist and political figure, as well as active in technical fields such as civil engineering and pedagogy, and, for long, the civil servant charged with overseeing all Moldavian schools. Among his leading achievements were the issuing of Albina Romaneasca, a highly influential magazine, and the creation of Academia Mihaileana, which replaced Greek-language education with teaching in Romanian. His literary works combined a taste for Classicism with Romantic tenets, while his version of the literary language relied on archaisms and borrowings from the Moldavian dialect.

Vasile Alecsandri (21 July 1821 - 22 August 1890) was a Romanian Freemason, poet, playwright, politician, and diplomat. He collected Romanian folk songs and was one of the principal animators of the 19th century movement for Romanian cultural identity and union of Moldavia and Wallachia.

In 1848, he became one of the leaders of the revolutionary movement based in Iasi. He wrote a widely read poem urging the public to join the cause, "Catre Romani" (To Romanians), later renamed "Desteptarea Romaniei" (Romania's Awakening). Together with Mihail Kogalniceanu and Costache Negri, he wrote a manifesto of the revolutionary movement in Moldavia, "Dorintele partidei nationale din Moldova" (Wishes of the National Party of Moldavia).