- Ion Inculeţ
Ion C. Inculeţ (
April 5 1884 -November 18 1940 ) was a Romanian politician, the president ofSfatul Ţării of theMoldavian Democratic Republic , minister inRomania and a member of theRomanian Academy .Biography
Born in
Răzeni , theRussian Empire , now inRepublic of Moldova , Inculeţ graduated the Chişinău Seminary, studied medicine for a year at the EstonianDorpat University and then he moved toSaint Petersburg , where he graduated in science at the Saint Petersburg University, working there as alecturer . Antonina Inculeţ, Emanuel Bădescu, " [http://www.itcnet.ro/history/archive/mi2000/current11/mi29.htm 1918. Ion Inculeţ la Academia Română] ", "Magazin Istoric ", no.11/2000]After getting his PhD in 1915, Inculeţ works as physicist at the Meteorological Observatory, while in the same time, he writes for the "Basarabia" newspaper of
Constantin Stere . Participating in theFebruary Revolution , onMay 25 Inculeţ was sent byAlexander Kerensky as a representative of theRussian Provisional Government toBessarabia to follow the evolution of events.Sfatul Ţării, a representative body was formed on
November 21 1917 , and Inculeţ is chosen in unanimity its president. On27 March 1918 , Sfatul Ţării decides the unification of Bessarabia with Romania and Inculeţ is named "Minister for Bessarabia" in the Romanian government.On
October 22 1918 (October 9 O.S.),Ioan Simionescu proposed Inculeţ to be a member of theRomanian Academy and he was elected as a full member on the meeting which took place the following day. His inaugural speech was named "Space and time in new scientific light" and it talked about the importance of Einstein's 1916Theory of Relativity .Together with
Pan Halippa , Inculeţ founded theBessarabian Peasants' Party , which militated forland reform in Bessarabia. In 1923, his wing of the party joined the National Liberal Party.Inculeţ died on 18 October 1940 and was burried in Bucharest, at the
Bellu Cemetery.References
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