Grigorie Sturdza son of Mihail Sturdza

Mihail Sturdza

Mihail Sturdza was a prince of Moldavia from 1834 to 1849. A man of liberal education, he established the Mihaileana Academy, a kind of university, in Iaşi. He brought scholars from foreign countries to act as teachers, and gave a very powerful stimulus to the educational development of the...

 was educated in France

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 and Germany

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, became a general in the Ottoman

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 army under the name of "Muklis Pasha", and afterwards attained the same rank in the Moldavia

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n army. He was a candidate for the Moldavian throne in 1859, and subsequently a prominent member of the Russophil party in the Romanian parliament. He wrote Lois fondamentales de l'univers (Paris 1891).