Romanian Masons

Nicolae Balcescu

Nicolae Balcescu by Gh. Tattarescu

Nicolae Balcescu (June 29, 1819 - November 29, 1852) was a Romanian Wallachian soldier, historian, journalist, Freemason and leader of the 1848 Wallachian Revolution.

Born in Bucharest to a family of low-ranking nobility, he used his mother's maiden name, in place of his father's name, Petrescu (his mother was originally from Balcesti, Valcea County)now,thenArges County. His siblings were Costache, Barbu, Sevasta and Marghioala, and his father died in 1824.

Gheorghe Asachi

Gheorghe Asachi

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.

Constantin Argetoianu

Constantin Argetoianu

Constantin Argetoianu (1871-February 6, 1952) was a Romanian Freemason, politician, one of the best-known personalities of interwar Greater Romania, who served as the Prime Minister between September 28 and November 23, 1939. His memoirs, a cross section of Romanian society, were made known for the sharp critique of several major figures in Romanian politics (using a sarcastic tone which had made his previous political speeches notorious).

Born in Craiova as the son of Army general Ioan Argetoianu, he trained in Law, Medicine, and Letters at the University of Paris, and later entered the diplomatic service (1897).

Vasile Alecsandri

Vasile Alecsandri

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).

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