Vasile Alecsandri

Vasile Alecsandri (spelled Alecsandri not Alexandri , according to his choice!) is one of the great Romanian lyric poets and dramatists. Born in Bacau, Moldova on 14 June 1821, studied in Iasi Moldova and Paris France. In 1848 he was active in the liberal revolution, which stormed all over Europe and because of repression, went on exile and traveled through France, Spain, and North Africa. Back home after the unification of the two Romanian principats, he traveled to London in 1859 as minister for foreign affairs, to get British recognition of the Union of Valahia and Moldova in what will be later called Romania. In 1885 was appointed as the Romanian ambassador to Paris. Died on 22 August 1890 in Mircesti Romania.