Sergiu T. Niță (1883 in

Peresecina Peresecina is a village in Orhei District, Moldova.Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...

) was a politician and lawyer from

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. He served as Minister for Bessarabia (1920–1921, 1926–1927) in the Averescu cabinets.

Biography

Sergiu Niță was born on March 21 (March 9 according to the old style) in 1883 in the Bessarabian village

Peresecina Peresecina is a village in Orhei District, Moldova.Orhei District Orhei () is a district ( ro, raion) in central Moldova, with its administrative center in the city of Orhei. As of 2014 Moldovan Census its population was 101,502. History The Orhei region has been inhabited since the Stone Age. Settlement ...

of the

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) into the family of a priest, Fyodor Niță, the rector of St. Michael's Church in the village of Peresecina. After a while, the family moved to Chișinău.

Education

Sergiu Niță studied in Chișinău. Father Fyodor Niță, a graduate of the Chișinău Theological Seminary, was a friend with the Moldavian writer

Constantin Stere Constantin G. Stere or Constantin Sterea (Romanian; russian: Константин Егорович Стере, ''Konstantin Yegorovich Stere'' or Константин Георгиевич Стере, ''Konstantin Georgiyevich Stere''; also known u ...

, who convinced him to send his son Sergiu to study at the Law Faculty of the

University of Iași The Alexandru Ioan Cuza University ( Romanian: ''Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza"''; acronym: UAIC) is a public university located in Iași, Romania. Founded by an 1860 decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza, under whom the former Academia M ...

Career

Sergiu Niță became president of the Administrative Court of Chișinău. After the

Union of Bessarabia with Romania The union of Bessarabia with Romania was proclaimed on by Sfatul Țării, the legislative body of the Moldavian Democratic Republic. This state had the same borders of the region of Bessarabia, which was annexed by the Russian Empire following ...

, Niță served as member of the Parliament of Romania and Minister for Bessarabia in the Government of

Alexandru Averescu Alexandru Averescu (; 9 March 1859 – 2 October 1938) was a Romanian marshal, diplomat and populist politician. A Romanian Armed Forces Commander during World War I, he served as Prime Minister of three separate cabinets (as well as being ''inter ...

(2 May 1920 - 17 December 1921 and 20 March 1926 - 3 June 1927). As minister for Bessarabia, he was the head of the initiative group who established the first

Romanian language Romanian (obsolete spellings: Rumanian or Roumanian; autonym: ''limba română'' , or ''românește'', ) is the official and main language of Romania and the Republic of Moldova. As a minority language it is spoken by stable communities in ...

theater in Chișinău, on 10 October 1920. He was a leader of the

Bessarabian Peasants' Party The Bessarabian Peasants' Party ( ro, Partidul Țărănesc din Basarabia, PȚB or PȚ-Bas; also ''Partidul Țărănesc Basarabean'', ''Partidul Țărănist Basarabean'') or Moldavian National Democratic Party (''Partidul Național-Democrat Moldove ...

. Internal divisions caused the party to split, with one group led by Niță joining the People's League in April 1920. In 1925, during a visit to Chișinău,

King King is the title given to a male monarch in a variety of contexts. The female equivalent is queen, which title is also given to the consort of a king. *In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the tit ...

Ferdinand I of Romania Ferdinand (Ferdinand Viktor Albert Meinrad; 24 August 1865 – 20 July 1927), nicknamed ''Întregitorul'' ("the Unifier"), was King of Romania from 1914 until his death in 1927. Ferdinand was the second son of Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern and ...

stopped at the residence of Niță (the second house on Sergei Lazo Street from Ștefan cel Mare Boulevard).

Death

Niță died on 3 March 1940 in

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; he was buried in the Central (Armenian) cemetery in Chișinău.11 fețe ale Chișinăului de ieri Chișinăului. Sergiu NIȚĂ (1883, Peresecina, Orhei – 3 martie 1940, București, înmormântat la Chișinău)

Awards

Order of the Star of Romania The Order of the Star of Romania (Romanian: ''Ordinul Steaua României'') is Romania's highest civil Order and second highest State decoration after the defunct Order of Michael the Brave. It is awarded by the President of Romania. It has five r ...

, Officer rank. * Order of the Crown of Romania, Officer rank. * Order of Ferdinand I, Commander rank.

References

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