Hâjdău
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Hâjdău (with several spelling versions, as Hâjdeu, Hasdeu, Hîjdău, etc.) was the name of a Romanian boyar family from Bessarabia, who activated in Poland, Russian Empire, and Romania. The founders of the Bessarabian line of the family are Ioan Hâjdău and Nicolae Hâjdău, the nephews of the Prince Stefan Petriceicu from his sister. She was married to a paharnic Lupaşco Hâjdău, dead in 1673 at Hotin, in a battle against the Ottomans, son of a Ştefan Hâjdău. After the prince's rebellion against the Turks, the two brothers will live Moldavia, for fear of repressions, and will accompany their uncle in Poland, where they will receive, in 1676, the status of Polish indigen nobles. The Hâjdăus who did not live the country lost very quickly their status. When Tadeu Hâjdău returns to Moldavia, in order to claim the lost domains of his family, he finds that the descendants of the Hâjdău boyar family were now pesants, butchers, of very humble condition. Several members of the auto-exiled line will illustrate themselves as writers in the 19th century:
Tadeu Hâjdău
Alexandru Hâjdău
Boleslav Hâjdău
