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Theodor Paleologu (; born July 15, 1973) is a Romanian historian, diplomat and politician. An independent who was formerly a member of the National Liberal Party (PNL), the
People's Movement Party The People's Movement Party ( ro, Partidul Mișcarea Populară, PMP) is a minor extra-parliamentary nominally centre-right Christian democratic, national-conservative political party in Romania. History The PMP was created as a political founda ...
(PMP) and the Democratic Liberal Party (PD-L), he was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for
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from 2008 to 2016. Additionally, in the first
Emil Boc Emil Boc (; born 6 September 1966) is a Romanian politician who was Prime Minister of Romania from 22 December 2008 until 6 February 2012 and is the current Mayor of Cluj-Napoca, the largest city of Transylvania, where he was first elected in J ...
cabinet (December 2008 to December 2009) he was Minister of Culture, Religious Affairs and Cultural Heritage.


Early life

The son of Olimpia and
Alexandru Paleologu Alexandru Paleologu (; March 14, 1919 – September 2, 2005) was a Romanian essayist, literary critic, diplomat, and politician. He is the father of historian Theodor Paleologu. Biography Paleologu was born in Bucharest, into an ancient Romanian b ...
, he was born in Bucharest and completed secondary studies at the city's German High School. He then attended
University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the ...
from 1992 to 1998, where he obtained undergraduate and master's degrees in philosophy. He also attended the ''
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'' from 1996 to 2001, and from 1998 to 2001, worked on a doctorate in political sciences at the
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and the
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. He was a lecturer at
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from 1999 to 2000, a visiting professor at
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in 2003, and a research fellow at the
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(2001–2002),
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(2002),
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(2002–2003) and the
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(2005). He was an external lecturer at the
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in 2007 and 2008, and since 2003 has been assistant professor and director of the summer university at the
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in Berlin. Between 2005 and 2008, he served as Romania's ambassador to Denmark and
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;Profile at the Romanian Government site
, retrieved March 3, 2009
he resigned from the office in order to pursue his successful parliamentary campaign.


Political activity

In the Chamber, he sat on the Arts, Culture and Mass Media Committee. As minister, his top priority was the preservation of Romania's historic monuments. His ministerial term ended when he was not reappointed to a new cabinet under Boc at the end of 2009. At the 2012 local election, he ran for mayor of Bucharest's Sector 1, finishing second with 14.1% of the vote. Running in the legislative election later that year, he placed second in his district, but won another term through the redistribution mechanism specified by the electoral law. In February 2014, he followed Elena Udrea in resigning from the PD-L and joining the
People's Movement Party The People's Movement Party ( ro, Partidul Mișcarea Populară, PMP) is a minor extra-parliamentary nominally centre-right Christian democratic, national-conservative political party in Romania. History The PMP was created as a political founda ...
(PMP). A year later, he entered the National Liberal Party (PNL), proclaiming that the PMP had degenerated into a "total fiasco". In June 2016, the PNL expelled him after he criticized the party leadership for its disrespect toward Save Bucharest Union leader
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. Paleologu ran as an
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in the December election and won some 8,000 votes, well short of the approximately 25,000 needed to secure a seat. He was the PMP candidate in the 2019 presidential election, placing fifth with 5.7% of the vote.


Presidential elections


Private life

Paleologu was married to Sarah Nassif, a French opera singer of Lebanese origin. The two are divorced and have one son, Mihail. Cezar Paul-Bădescu
"Theodor Paleologu, ministrul Culturii: 'Duc o luptă de gherilă în domeniul patrimoniului'" ("Theodor Paleologu, Minister of Culture: 'I Am Leading a Guerrilla Fight in the Cultural Heritage Field'"
''Adevărul'', 3 February 2009, retrieved March 3, 2009
He wrote two books, one on
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(2004) and one on the year 2004 in Romanian politics (2005). In 2013, he began holding private courses on the humanities and diplomacy in his family home."Theodor Paleologu predă cursuri de 'Understanding Romanian Mentality', la domiciliu" ("Theodor Paleologu Teaches Courses on 'Understanding Romanian Mentality', at Home")
, ''Jurnalul Naţional'', 4 December 2012; retrieved April 2, 2014


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Paleologu, Theodor 1973 births Living people Politicians from Bucharest Democratic Liberal Party (Romania) politicians People's Movement Party politicians National Liberal Party (Romania) politicians Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania) Romanian academics Diplomats from Bucharest 21st-century Romanian historians Members of the Romanian Orthodox Church Romanian Ministers of Culture Romanian writers in French University of Paris alumni University of Notre Dame faculty Deep Springs College faculty Harvard Fellows New York University faculty Bard College faculty