Nicolae Crețulescu was a Wallachia

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n-born Romania

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n politician and physician. He served three terms as Prime Minister of Romania

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: from 1862 to 1863, again from 1865 to 1866, and finally in 1867. He was elected to the Romanian Academy

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Born in Bucharest

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, he studied medicine in Paris

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, having Gustave Flaubert

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 as a colleague. As a physician, his notable work was the translation of Jean Cruveilhier

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's manual of anatomy

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A member of the Liberal faction

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, Creţulescu first became prime minister after the assassination

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 of Barbu Catargiu

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, under Domnitor

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Alexander John Cuza

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. He avoided debating the issue of land reform

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, at that time the most contentious subject in Romanian politics; instead, Creţulescu focused on unifying the public health

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 system, creating the Directorate General of the Public Archive, and establishing a Council for Public Instruction. Additionally, he laid the groundwork for further laws secularizing

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 (nationalizing) the property of monasteries

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