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Constantin Brătianu (born 1768,Sabina Cantacuzino: ''Din viaţa familiei Ion C. Brătianu 1821–1891'', vol. 1, pages 19f and 196f. Humanitas, Bukarest 2014 1788
Familia Bratienilor si rolul hotarator jucat de aceasta famile si Partidul Liberal
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or 1795Alex Drace-Francis: ''Making of Modern Romanian Culture – Literacy and the Development of National Identity'', page 43f. I.B.Tauris, London/New York 2006 in
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;
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; died February 10, 1844 in Tigveni near
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, Wallachia), also known as ''"Dincă"'' (from ''Constandin'',Keith Hitchins: ''Makers of the Modern World – Ionel Bratianu'', page 18ff, House Publishing, Bukarest 2011 a more seldom transcription of the originally
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written name), was a Romanian
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and politician. He was the father of the Romanian Prime Ministers Dumitru Brătianu and
Ion Brătianu An ion () is an atom or molecule with a net electrical charge. The charge of an electron is considered to be negative by convention and this charge is equal and opposite to the charge of a proton, which is considered to be positive by convent ...
. There are different legends about the origin of the Brătianus. According especially to national liberal historians and politicians
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: ''Geschichte und Mythos – Über die Gegenwart des Vergangenen in der rumänischen Gesellschaft'', page 236ff. Böhlau, Köln 2003
(e. g. Constantin's granddaughter Sabina Brătianu-Cantacuzino, Constantin's great-grandson Gheorghe Brătianu or Ion Duca) the female line of the family history goes back to the Vlădescu boyars of the
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. By the end of the 18th century Constantin's father Iane (or Ene) Brătianu, a minor boyar (Șătrar), has married into the Vlădescu family. However, contrary to that, a certain Dr. Georgiyev, linguist at Oriental Academy of Vienna, claimed that Constantin Brătianu has been of Bulgarian descent and immigrated from
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(in the Turkish ruled
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) into WallachiaThis allegation was published in 1916, just at the moment when
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and
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were at war with Romania. Probably, it was war propaganda to discredit the Romanian prime minister Ionel Brătianu (who was a son of Ion and grandson of Constantin Brătianu).
Kölnische Zeitung (German newspaper from Cologne) from September 20, 1916:
Brătianu – ein Bulgarenstämmling!
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not before the Russo-Turkish wars when Wallachia was temporarily occupied by the Russians. Following another Russo-Turkish war Wallachia was occupied again and the Organic Regulation was imposed there. Based on that Regulament the Russians installed a parliament-like assembly of boyars. From 1831 on Constantin Brătianu, meanwhile the wealthiest of all boyars of the county, represented Argeș in the Wallachian assembly. Additionally in 1835 he became the county administrator of Argeș and in 1839 the Wallachian prince Alexandru Dimitrie Ghica honored him with the rank of a ''
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''. Allegedly until that time Constantin Brătianu was ''"knowing neither how to write nor to read, barely even able to sign his name"''. (Instead of reading or writing
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, according to the Viennian linguist, Brătianu still spoke Bulgarian.) With his wife Anastasia (also called ''Anica'' or ''Sica'') Tigveanu, who died in 1838 (or 1839), Constantin Brătianu had three sons and four daughters. The oldest son (Teodor) became a general. Despite their boyaric origin, the two other sons (Dumitru and Ion) founded the National Liberal Party (Partidul Național Liberal) to end the rule of the conservative boyar's party – at least until the moment, when Dumitru allied himself with the boyar's party to overthrow his brother Ion.


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19th-century people from the Principality of Wallachia Honorary members of the Romanian Academy 18th-century births