Sturdza family

The House of Sturdza, Sturza or Stourdza is the name of an old Moldavian noble family, whose origins can be traced back to the 1540s and whose members played important political role in the history of Moldavia, Russia and later Romania.

Sturdza family coat of arms

Political family

The Sturdza family, a Moldavian princely family, has been long and intimately associated with the government first of Moldavia and afterwards of Romania. Its members belong to two main branches, which trace their descent from either Ioan Sturdza or Alexandru Sturdza, the sons of Chiriac Sturdza, who lived in the 17th century, and may be regarded as the founder of the family.[1] Members active in government:

The Sturdza Castle in Miclăuşeni
  • Ioan Sturdza prince of Moldavia from 1822 to 1828
  • Mihail Sturdza (1795 – 1884), Prince of Moldavia from 1834 to 1849, modernizer of Moldavia
  • Alexandru Sturdza, also known as Alexandre Stourdza (1791–1854), Russian publicist and diplomatist
  • Grigore Sturdza (1821 – 1901), son of Mihail, army general and politician
  • Dimitrie Sturdza (1833 – 1914), Romanian statesman
  • Dimitrie C. Sturdza-Scheianu, (1839 – 1920) Romanian historian
  • Mihail R. Sturdza (1886 – 1980), Romanian minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Mihai Dimitrie Sturdza (1934 – 2020), Romanian historian
  • Alexandru D. Sturdza (1869-1939), Romanian Army, colonel, German spy, son of Dimitrie Sturdza (1833-1914), Romanian statesman

Others

References
  1. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gaster, Moses (1911). "Sturdza". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 1051.
  2. Manea, Aureliu (2020). Imaginary Performances in Shakespeare. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-07414-7.

3. Otu, Petre, Georgescu, Maria: Durchleuchtung eines Verrats. Der Fall des Oberst Alexandru D. Sturdza. Lektor Verlag. Hainburg. 2022.

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