Anastasie Panu, portrait by Carol Szathmari

Anastasie Panu (1810–1867) was a Moldavian, later Romanian politician. Born and educated in

Iași Iași ( , , ; also known by other alternative names), also referred to mostly historically as Jassy ( , ), is the second largest city in Romania and the seat of Iași County. Located in the historical region of Moldavia, it has traditionally ...

, Panu spent many years in Huși, where around 1845 he was named tribunal member, later rising to president. In 1847, his political support for Lascăr Rosetti led Prince Mihail Sturdza to dismiss Panu, detaining him at the

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barracks for three months. Implicated in the

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, he was again arrested. After Sturdza fell from power, Panu moved to Iași. In 1852, Prince Grigore Alexandru Ghica named him department head at the Justice Ministry, and later interim minister. Panu was elected to represent Iași in the ad hoc Divan. He was part of an eleven-member committee charged with implementing the

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. Near the end of its independent existence, he was one of three '' Caimacam''s who led Moldavia. During the rule of Alexandru Ion Cuza, he held a Iași seat in the

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. From January to September 1861, while Wallachia and Moldavia still had separate governments, he was prime minister of Moldavia, also serving as Interior Minister.Stelian Neagoe, ''Istoria guvernelor României'', p. 24. Bucharest: Editura Machiavelli, 1995, ISBN 978-973-965997-0 Panu died in Vienna. Dimitrie Rosetti, ''Dicționarul Contimporanilor'', p. 145. Editura Lito-Tipografiei "Populara", Bucharest, 1897

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Panu, Anastasie 1810 births 1867 deaths Politicians from Iași Prime Ministers of the Principality of Moldavia Government ministers of the Principality of Moldavia