Dimitrie I. Ghika or Ghica (21 January 1875 – 13 October 1967) was a Romanian politician and

diplomat A diplomat (from grc, δίπλωμα; romanized ''diploma'') is a person appointed by a state or an intergovernmental institution such as the United Nations or the European Union to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or internati ...

. He was the son of

Ioan Grigore Ghica Prince Ioan Grigore Ghica (10 December 1830 – 21 March 1881) was a Romanian politician who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Principality of Romania from 29 September 1862 to 29 August 1863. He also served as the Minister of N ...

, former minister of National Defence and of Foreign Affairs. Dimitrie Ghika studied at the University of Toulouse and at the Paris Institute of Political Studies. He entered the diplomatic service in 1894 as secretary to the Romanian

legation A legation was a diplomatic representative office of lower rank than an embassy. Where an embassy was headed by an ambassador, a legation was headed by a Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, minister. Ambassadors diplomatic rank, out ...

in Rome. His other assignments took him to Saint Petersburg,

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, Vienna, and Sofia. In 1919 he was part of the Romanian delegation to the

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, signing the Treaty of Sèvres. He thereafter worked closely with

Nicolae Titulescu Nicolae Titulescu (; 4 March 1882 – 17 March 1941) was a Romanian diplomat, at various times government minister, finance and foreign minister, and for two terms president of the General Assembly of the League of Nations (1930–32). Early ye ...

. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from April 27, 1931 to June 5, 1932 in the government headed by Nicolae Iorga. He was appointed minister plenipotentiary to Belgium and Luxembourg, being recalled in 1936 due to the reshuffling of the Romanian diplomatic corps after the dismissal of

. Dimitrie I. Ghika retired in 1937. He was brother of Vladimir Ghika. Dimitrie Ghika also translated the Histories of Herodotus into Romanian. He also published a study on the relations between France and the

Romanian Principalities The Danubian Principalities ( ro, Principatele Dunărene, sr, Дунавске кнежевине, translit=Dunavske kneževine) was a conventional name given to the Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, which emerged in the early 14th ce ...

during the French Revolution and the First French Empire.

Works

* Istoriile lui Erodot. Traducere română din limba originală însoțite de textul elinesc și de note, 1894. * Franța și principatele Dunărene – 1789–1815 (republished Institutul European, 2008. ]

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* The Treaty of Sèvres, 192

* Potra, George G. - ''Reacții necunoscute la demiterea lui Titulescu 29 August 1936: O "mazilire perfidă"'' - Magazin Istoric, 1998, Nr. 6 * Mihai Sorin Radulescu - O scrisoare de la diplomatul Dimitrie I. Ghik

* Principele Dimitrie I. Ghic

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