Alexandru Moșanu (19 July 1932 – 7 December 2017) was a

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n politician, historian and professor.

Biography

Alexandru Moșanu was born in Braniște,

Kingdom of Romania The Kingdom of Romania ( ro, Regatul României) was a constitutional monarchy that existed in Romania from 13 March ( O.S.) / 25 March 1881 with the crowning of prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen as King Carol I (thus beginning the Romanian ...

(now in

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). He was the first speaker of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova between 1990 and 1993. He was also one of the co-authors of Moldova's 1991 Declaration of Independence. Moșanu was the author of over 100 works on the history of Moldova and

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. His most important contribution as an author is a study on Romanian historiography published in

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in 1988. In 1993, he became a foreign honorary member of the Romanian Academy. Between 2002 and 2005 Moșanu was the Honorary Chairman of the Social Liberal Party. He was a leader of the

Democratic Forum of Romanians in Moldova The Democratic Forum of the Romanians of Moldova ( ro, Forumul Democrat al Românilor din Moldova) is a civic movement, which brings together over 120 NGOs, several leading public organizations of Moldova and a whole number of academicians, write ...

Awards

Romanian Cultural Institute The Romanian Cultural Institute ( ro, Institutul Cultural Român, ICR), headquartered in Bucharest, was established in 2004 on the older institutional framework provided by the Romanian Cultural Foundation and before 1989 by the Institute for ...

Prize

Works

* Mișcări sociale și politice din România în epoca modernă * Istoriografia românească * Unitatea poporului român și Mișcarea de Renaștere și de Eliberare Națională a românilor basarabeni * Alexandru Moșanu, ''Destin Românesc'',

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, 1994; * Alexandru Moșanu, ''Un pilon de granit al Rezistenţei basarabene'' în ''Literatura și Arta'', 17 iulie 2003.

External links

Interviu cu Alexandru Moşanu

Yalta - Rubbing Salt in Romania’s Historical Wounds

Ştire despre retragerea lui A.Moşanu din funcţia de preşedinte de onoare al PSL
1932 births 2017 deaths Romanian people of Moldovan descent People from Rîșcani District Honorary members of the Romanian Academy 20th-century Romanian historians 21st-century Romanian historians 20th-century Moldovan historians Presidents of the Moldovan Parliament Moldovan MPs 1990–1994 Moldovan MPs 1994–1998 Moldova State University alumni Popular Front of Moldova MPs Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova politicians Members of the Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova Deaths from cancer in Romania {{Moldova-politician-stub