V. A. Urechia [SEP] country of citizenship
by his admiration for the Spanish institution "Ateneo de Madrid".
Biography Relocation to Bucharest.
In November 1864, Urechia moved to unified Romania's capital, Bucharest, having been granted a seat at the local university's Faculty of Letters, but continued to manage a "V. A. Urechia Institute", his private school. He was also employed as Head of Department in the Education Ministry, in which position he helped his future rival, Titu Maiorescu, who was at the time facing allegations of misconduct and pressured to
death penalty for murder, and curbs on press freedom. More controversially, Sturdza and his allies also favored opening the country to German colonists. These proposals went unanswered, with Ionescu and Kogălniceanu threatening a revolt of the people. References to "national glory" and the importance of Orthodoxy were enforced in the art conservation bill of February 1871. It was sponsored by Factionalists Ionescu, Mantu, Negri and Vucenicu, but also by Bolliac and V. A. Urechia.
Despite such resistance, the conservative trend was consolidated in the May