Văcărescu family

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.

• 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

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

See also

• Phanariotes