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Alexandru Ioan Cuza

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Alexandru Ioan Cuza (1820 -1873)

Born on March 20, 1820 in Barlad, Alexandru Ioan Cuza passed a good part of its childhood on the field of his/her father to Barbaosi. Alexendru Ioan Cuza - Bucovine.com

It begins its studies with Iasi in school creates by French Victor Cuenim, former officer remained in Romania of armed with Napoleon, after the countryside in Russia.

In this school it will have colleagues like the poet Vasile Alecsandri and Mihail Kogalniceanu, which will become after his closer collaborators during the process of the creation of State National Rumanian.

In 1834 it shares for Paris to supplement its studies, accompanied by friends and cousins. Was with time the manner of making studies approved by the families of the Rumanian nobility.

Cuza passes its vat of letters to bets in December 1835, as his friends Vasile Alecsandri is tried by studies of medicine but, like, does not support the dissections to him and gives up medicine in favour of the studies in right.

He marries Elena Rosetti, the girl of Iordache Rosetti, boyard Moldavian, in 1844 during he was judge of told of Covurlui (close to Vaslui).
Elena Cuza Rosetti-Bucovine.com

C is interesting the fact that Alexandru do not accept the “stags” which returned to him from right by the dowry of his wife. One must notice the fact that by its marriage, Alexandru Ioan Cuza reinforced its relations in the medium of aristocracy Moldavian.

In 1848 he is noticed in the revolutionary movement in Moldavia and afterwards in the Movement for Union of the Rumanian Principalities (Moldavia and Walachia).

On January 5, 1859 he is elected chief of Moldavia and on January 24, chief of Walachia, by his election in the two Principalities he carries out a true union.

While becoming Head of State, Alexandru Ioan Cuza, obtains acceptance of the great capacities European.

In fact the acts of government follow: the realization a single Parliament, a single government and the decision to make a single capital from Romania, in Bucharest. (in 1862).

In opposition with part of the nobility and middle-class and also of Rumanian orthodox Church, Cuza founds a government directed by Mihail Kogalniceanu in 1864. This government decides to secularize the goods of the monasteries.

The same Cuza year take the way of the great reforms, it subject approval a constitution by referendum, (the first referendum in the history of the country) thus a new electoral law. It apply the New electoral law conceived by Kogalniceanu, which represents a step advances some on the way of modernization a country characterized by a delay of reform. Mihail Kogalniceanu- BUCOVINE.com

Is the moment of abolition of slavery.
While it was with the capacity have can also noted the modernization of the Civil code and the Penal code, It returned the law for primary school education obligatory. In Iasi was creates the first university of Romania (which carries today its name) and has Bucharest was creates another University. It reinforced national army.

Both reform: electoral and agrarian, were worth large enemy to him among the rich person aristocrats who are gathers in a coalition (known in history under the name of “the monstrous coalition”) which obliged to abdicate on February 11, 1866.

With its place the same coalition brought German prince Carol de Hohenzollern, dynasty which will remain with the capacity in Romania after the second world war and introduction of the socialist mode by the force and influence of Soviet Union.

Cuza was expelled and it passed the remainder of its life to Germany, or it is deceased in 1873 in Heidelberg. It was buried in its Ruginoasa field, close to Iasi while remaining for the Rumanians a emblematic personality and progresses

Text of Cleopatra Lorintiu

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