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Barbu Catargiu

1807 - 1862

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barbu Catargiu has received more than 55,135 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Barbu Catargiu is the 12,116th most popular politician (down from 10,217th in 2019), the 266th most popular biography from Romania (down from 212th in 2019) and the 98th most popular Romanian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Barbu Catargiu ranks 12,116 out of 15,577Before him are Georg Friedrich von Martens, Lambert Simnel, Marduk-zakir-shumi I, Uglješa Mrnjavčević, Orso II Participazio, and Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen. After him are Agnes of Aquitaine, Queen of León and Castile, Kaarlo Castrén, Victor II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Horace Mann, Antiochus III of Commagene, and Željka Cvijanović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1807, Barbu Catargiu ranks 34Before him are Théophile Thoré-Bürger, Friedrich Theodor Vischer, Ignatius Brianchaninov, Anna Russell, Adrien-François Servais, and Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński. After him are Napoléon Henri Reber, Ye Mingchen, Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, Joseph Decaisne, Luigi Palmieri, and Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff. Among people deceased in 1862, Barbu Catargiu ranks 37Before him are Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo, Duchess Marie Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Albert Sidney Johnston, Bernhard Severin Ingemann, Juana Azurduy de Padilla, and Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov. After him are José María Bocanegra, Francisco Balagtas, Sofia Adlersparre, Robert Knox, Carlos Anaya, and František Škroup.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Barbu Catargiu ranks 266 out of 665Before him are Ștefan Luchian (1868), Emil Racoviță (1868), Dimitrie Sturdza (1833), Isidore Isou (1925), Ștefan Barbu (1908), and Liviu Librescu (1930). After him are Nicolae Ciucă (1967), Lupu Pick (1886), Marius Lăcătuș (1964), Victor Pițurcă (1956), Dumitru Prunariu (1952), and Anca Petrescu (1949).

Among POLITICIANS In Romania

Among politicians born in Romania, Barbu Catargiu ranks 98Before him are Ion Gigurtu (1886), Kálmán Tisza (1830), Gheorghe Argeșanu (1883), Florin Cîțu (1972), Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino (1832), and Dimitrie Sturdza (1833). After him are Nicolae Ciucă (1967), Aurel Popovici (1863), Béla Károlyi (1942), Ileana Gyulai-Drîmbă-Jenei (1946), Theodor Stolojan (1943), and Teoctist Arăpașu (1915).