Văcărescu family
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The Văcărescu family was a boyar family of Wallachia (now part of Romania).
According to tradition it is one of the oldest noble families in Wallachia. Of Phanariote (Greek) origin it gave Romanian literature its first poets.[1]
 Nicolae Văcărescu |
- Enache Văcărescu (1654 - 1714) grand treasurer of Wallachia
- Ienăchiţă Văcărescu (1730 - 1796) poet, wrote the first Romanian grammar
- Alecu Văcărescu (died 1798), poet
- Nicolae Văcărescu (died 1830), poet
- Barbu Văcărescu (died 1832), the last Great Ban of Craiova
- Iancu Văcărescu, (1786 - 1863), poet
- Maurice Paléologue (1859 - 1944), writer and French diplomat
- Elena Văcărescu, (1864 - 1947), poet
[edit] References
- ^ Encyclopedia Britannica, Vacarescu family, 2008, O.Ed.
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
