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Barbu Catargiu

Barbu Catargiu
1st Prime Minister of Romania
In office
15 February 1862 – 20 June 1862
MonarchAlexandru Ioan Cuza
Succeeded byNicolae Crețulescu
Personal details
Born(1807-10-26)26 October 1807
Bucharest, Wallachia
Died20 June 1862(1862-06-20) (aged 54)
Bucharest, Romanian United Principalities
Political partyConservative Party

Barbu Catargiu (26 October 1807 – 20 June [O.S. 8 June] 1862) was a conservative Romanian politician and journalist. He was the first Prime Minister of Romania, in 1862, until he was assassinated on 20 June that year. He was a staunch defender of the great estates of the boyars,[1] and notably originated the conservative doctrine that "feudalism in Romania had never existed".[2]

  1. ^ Keith Hitchins, The Romanians 1774–1866 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), p. 302.
  2. ^ Maria Nikolaeva Todorova, Balkan Identities: Nation and Memory (New York: NYU Press, 2004), p. 289

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