Vasile Alecsandri

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Vasile Alecsandri
Born	21 July 1821 Bacău, Principality of Moldavia
Died	22 August 1890 (1890-08-23) (aged 69) Mircești, Kingdom of Romania
Occupation(s)	Poet, playwright, politician, and diplomat
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Vasile Alecsandri (Romanian pronunciation: [vaˈsile aleksanˈdri]; 21 July 1821 – 22 August 1890) was a Romanian patriot,^[1][2][3] poet, dramatist, politician and diplomat.^[4] He was one of the key figures during the 1848 revolutions in Moldavia and Wallachia. He fought for the unification of the Romanian Principalities, writing "Hora Unirii" in 1856 and giving up his candidacy for the title of prince of Moldavia, in favor of Alexandru Ioan Cuza. He became the first minister of foreign affairs of Romania and was one of the founding members of the Romanian Academy. Alecsandri was a prolific writer, contributing to Romanian literature with poetry, prose, several plays, and collections of Romanian folklore, being considered, alongside Mihai Eminescu, which admired and was inspired by the writings of Alecsandri, as one of the most important Romanian writers in the second half of the 19th century.