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

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and diplomat. He was the son of Ioan Grigore Ghica, former minister of National Defence and of Foreign Affairs. Dimitrie Ghika studied at the

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and at the

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. He entered the diplomatic service in 1894 as secretary to the Romanian legation in

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. His other assignments took him to

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, Bern,

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, and

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. In 1919 he was part of the Romanian delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, signing the

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. 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 Nicolae Iorga (; sometimes Neculai Iorga, Nicolas Jorga, Nicolai Jorga or Nicola Jorga, born Nicu N. Iorga;Iova, p. xxvii. 17 January 1871 – 27 November 1940) was a Romanian historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, Albanologist, poet ...

. He was appointed minister plenipotentiary to

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and

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, 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 Vladimir Ghika or Ghica (25 December 1873 – 16 May 1954) was a Romanian diplomat and essayist who, after his conversion from Romanian Orthodoxy to Catholicism, became a priest. He was a member of the princely Ghica family, which ruled Moldavi ...

. Dimitrie Ghika also translated the Histories of

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into Romanian. He also published a study on the relations between

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and the

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during the

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and the

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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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References

* 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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