Grigore Alexandru Ghica

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Grigore Alexandru Ghica

Grigore Alexandru Ghica (born August 25, 1803 or 1807 in Botoșani , † August 24, 1857 in Le Mée-sur-Seine ) was a Moldovan prince ( Hospodar ).

Life

Ghica was born in Botoșani in 1803 or 1807 as the son of Alexander Ghica and his wife Elena Grigore Sturdza, from whom the father divorced in 1808. Grigore Alexandru Ghicawar was a great-nephew of Grigore III. Ghica († 1777) and received his education in Germany and France. As the liberal successor of Michael Stourdza , Grigore Alexandru Ghica was Moldovan prince between May 1849 and October 1853 after the Romanian Revolution of 1848 . He built schools, built roads and organized the administration, so in 1850 he founded a gendarmerie corps . A school of the Romanian gendarmerie therefore bears his name today.

After the Russian occupation at the beginning of the Crimean War , Ghica was again Prince of Moldova between October 1854 and June 1856. He fought for the unification of the Danube Principalities and was therefore replaced by Theodor Balsch at the end of his term of office . According to other sources, he gave up his post for health reasons at the end of his seven-year hospice. He went to Paris on July 3, 1856 to promote the unification of the principalities. When he was unsuccessful, he committed suicide on August 26, 1857 on his country estate Mée near Melun by shooting with a pistol. He was the only ruler of the principalities who died in exile by suicide.

With his first wife Helena, daughter of the Moldovan prince Ioniță Sandu Sturdza , he had five children:

  • Constantine (1826–1874)
  • Johann (1830–1881, father of Vladimir Ghika )
  • Jekaterina (1827–1890, married to Nicolae Mavrocordat from 1847 )
  • Alexander (1831–1903 or † February 27, 1902 in Paris as Romanian envoy at the gate)
  • Aglaia (1834–1903, from 1850 married to Racucanu Rosetti and Antoine Alaux)

After that he was married to Ana Catargi († 1839) from 1835 and to Euprosine Leroy († 1889) from 1856 and had two other sons:

  • Ferdinand (1853-1933)
  • Gregor (1851-1889)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Ghika . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 7, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 320.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Mona & Florian Budu-Ghyka: Grigore V Ghika Voda. In: l 'Arbre Généalogique de la Famille Ghika / Ghyka / Ghica. ghika.net, September 2016, accessed October 6, 2017 .
  3. ^ Wiener Neuigkeits-Blatt, September 4, 1857, No. 202, p. 1, full text in the Google book search
  4. ↑ Domnii din moldova PANA in 1859. National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics, Bucharest, February 24, 2009, filed by the original on April 15, 2011 ; accessed on October 6, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Jandarmaria Grigore Alexandru Ghica accessed on July 11, 2010
  6. ↑ Universal encyclopedia of the present and past or the latest encyclopedic dictionary of the sciences, arts and crafts: The latest additions to all editions of Pierer's Universal Lexicon and to every similar work , Pierer, Altenburg 1855, p. 363, full text in the Google book search
  7. ↑ Manfred Stoy: Historische Bücherkunde Südosteuropa , Volume 2: Modern Times , Part 2: Romania 1521-1918 , p. 272 ​​(= Southeast Europe Bibliography / Supplementary Volume 4), Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-486-54841-7

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SURNAME Ghica, Grigore Alexandru
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince of Moldova
DATE OF BIRTH between 1803 and 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Botoșani
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1857
Place of death Le Mée-sur-Seine