The Hâjdău family (with several spelling versions, such as Hâjdeu, Hasdeu, Hîjdău, etc.) was the name of a Romanian boyar family from

Bessarabia Bessarabia () is a historical region in Eastern Europe, bounded by the Dniester river on the east and the Prut river on the west. About two thirds of Bessarabia lies within modern-day Moldova, with the Budjak region covering the southern coa ...

, who activated in

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, and

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History

The founders of the Bessarabian line of the family are Ioan Hâjdău and Nicolae Hâjdău, the nephews of

Prince A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. The ...

Stefan Petriceicu from his sister. She was married to a paharnic Lupașco Hâjdău, who died in 1673 at Hotin, in a battle against the

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, son of a Ștefan Hâjdău. After the prince's rebellion against the Turks, the two brothers will leave

Moldavia Moldavia (, or ; in Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, Romanian Cyrillic: or ) is a historical region and former principality in Eastern Europe, corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester River. An initially in ...

, for fear of repressions, and will accompany their uncle to

. There, they will receive, in 1676, the Polish

indygenat ''Indygenat'' or ' naturalization' in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was the grant of nobility to foreign nobles. To grant ''indygenat'', a foreign noble had to submit proof of their service to the Republic, together with proof of nobility i ...

. The Hâjdăus who did not leave the country lost their status very quickly. When Tadeu Hâjdău returns to

, in order to claim the lost domains of his family, he finds that the descendants of the Hâjdău

boyar A boyar or bolyar was a member of the highest rank of the feudal nobility in many Eastern European states, including Bulgaria, Kievan Rus' (and later Russia), Moldavia and Wallachia (and later Romania), Lithuania and among Baltic Germans. C ...

family were now peasants and butchers, of very humble condition. Several members of the auto-exiled line will affirm themselves as writers in the 19th century:

Notable members

* Tadeu Hâjdău * Alexandru Hâjdeu * Boleslav Hâjdău *

Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu (; 26 February 1838 – ) was a Romanian writer and philologist who pioneered many branches of Romanian philology and history. Life He was born Tadeu Hâjdeu in Cristineștii Hotinului (now Kerstentsi in Chernivtsi ...

Iulia Hasdeu Iulia Hasdeu (; 14 November 1869 – 29 September 1888) was a Romanian poet, the daughter of writer and philologist Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu and his wife Iulia Faliciu. From a very young age, Hasdeu wrote poems and prose in both Romanian languag ...

References

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