Alexandru Sturdza [SEP] date of birth
Alexandru Sturdza
Alexandru Sturdza (Александр Скарлатович Стурдза; Iași, Moldavia, 18 November 1791Odessa, 13 June 1854) was a Russian publicist and diplomat of Romanian origin. In his writings, he referred to himself with a French rendition of his name, Alexandre Stourdza.
Life.
Alexandru Sturdza was a member of the Sturdza family, born in Jassy, in Moldavia, and related to the Greek Phanariote family of the Mourousis through his mother. After his family fled Bessarabia in 1802 in order to avoid the repression from
confusion regarding his exact birth year, with several sources erroneously indicating it as 1806; in his speech to the Romanian Academy, he acknowledged this, and gave his exact birth date as present in a register kept by his father. It was also then that he mentioned his godmother was Marghioala Calimach, a Callimachi boyaress who married into the Sturdza family, and was the mother of Mihail Sturdza (Kogălniceanu's would-be protector and foe).
Kogălniceanu was educated at Trei Ierarhi monastery in Iași, before being tutored by