Mihail Kogălniceanu

Mihail Kogălniceanu

Mihail Kogălniceanu (Romanian pronunciation: [mihaˈil koɡəlniˈtʃe̯anu] ; also known as Mihail Cogâlniceanu, Michel de Kogalnitchan; September 6, 1817 – July 1, 1891) was a Romanian liberal statesman, lawyer, historian and publicist; he became Prime Minister of Romania on October 11, 1863, after the 1859 union of the Danubian Principalities under Domnitor Alexandru Ioan Cuza, and later served as Foreign Minister under Carol I. He was several times Interior Minister under Cuza and Carol. A polymath, Kogălniceanu was one of the most influential Romanian intellectuals of his generation. Siding with the moderate liberal current for most of his lifetime, he began his political career as a collaborator of Prince Mihail Sturdza, while serving as head of the Iași Theater and issuing several publications together with the poet Vasile Alecsandri and the activist Ion Ghica. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mihail Kogălniceanu has received more than 170,014 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Mihail Kogălniceanu is the 7,633rd most popular politician (up from 7,772nd in 2019), the 138th most popular biography from Romania (up from 139th in 2019) and the 57th most popular Romanian Politician.