Alexandru Hâjdeu or Alexander Faddeevich Hizhdeu (russian: Алекса́ндр Фадде́евич Хижде́у; 30 November 1811 – 9 November 1872) was a

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Imperial writer of Romanian descent, who lived in

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, now

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. He was the father of Romanian writer and philologist

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. Alexandru Hâjdeu was one of the founding members of the

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Education

He studied at the Theological Seminary in Chișinău, then at the Law School of the University of

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. In 1830, the first philosophical writings of Alexandru Hajduu - About the Divine Poetry Quality and About the Purpose of Philosophy - are published in the

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magazine ''"Vestnik Evropa"''. In 1836, he married Elisaveta Dauksz. In the same year he became an ephor of the schools in Hotin County. In 1838 his son

was born. On June 24, 1840, he held a famous speech in front of the graduates and pedagogical staff of the county school in Hotin - The souvenirs from the past, which is the present and shows the future of Moldova, translated immediately in Romanian by

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. In 1842, he was "forced” to resign from the ephor position of the schools in the Hotin County. Then, he was employed as a teacher of

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and mathematics at the boys' school in

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. In this period he wrote the study "The Problem of Our Time" which will be translated and published in

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only in 1938. In 1860, in "History and Literature Note" appears his work ''Notiţă'' ("Note") on the work of Kantemir Voievod. In 1866, he was elected as founder member of the Romanian Philological Society.

The Bessarabian School

Hâjdeu made an important contribution to the unification of the

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, especially, through his speeches held in 1837 and 1840. His speech held in 1837 and then, published in 1838 in

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and in 1839 in

, was the cornerstone of the unification of the Romanian Principalities on January 24, 1859. By the letter ''Epistle to the Romanians'' (Published on January 2, 1859), Hâjdeu defines the key element of "Romanian Messianism", also called the "Bessarabian School", by which he proves the intelligent implication (and often decisive, as in 1918) of the Basarabians in unification process of the Romanian nation.

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