Alexandru Moșanu

Alexandru Moşanu (born July 19, 1932 in Branişte, Rîşcani) is a Moldovan politician, historian and professor.

Biography

Alexandru Moşanu was born on July 19, 1932 in Branişte, Romania (now in Rîşcani district, Moldova). He was the first speaker of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova between 1990 and 1993. He was also one of the co-authors of Moldova's 1991 Declaration of Independence.

Moşanu is the author of over 100 works on the history of Moldova and Romania. His most important contribution as an author is a study on Romanian historiography published in Moscow in 1988. In 1993, he became a foreign honorary member of the Romanian Academy. Between 2002 and 2005 Mosanu was the Honorary Chairman of the Social Liberal Party (Moldova).

He is a leader of the Democratic Forum of Romanians in Moldova.

Awards

• Romanian Cultural Institute Prize

Works

• Mişcări sociale şi politice din România în epoca modernă
• Istoriografia românească
• Unitatea poporului român şi Mişcarea de Renaştere şi de Eliberare Naţională a românilor basarabeni
• Alexandru Mosanu, Destin Românesc, Chişinău, 1994;
• Alexandru Moşanu, Un pilon de granit al Rezistenţei basarabene în Litetarura şi Arta, 17 iulie 2003.

External links

• Interviu cu Alexandru Moşanu
• Yalta - Rubbing Salt in Romania’s Historical Wounds
• Ştire despre retragerea lui A.Moşanu din funcţia de preşedinte de onoare al PSL

Leaders of Moldova
Moldavian Republic	Ion Inculeț
Moldavian SSR	Piotr Borodin Nikita Salogor (acting) Nicolae Coval Leonid Brezhnev Dimitri Gladki Zinovie Serdiuk Ivan Bodiul Semion Grossu Petru Lucinschi Grigore Eremei
Republic of Moldova	Mircea Snegur Petru Lucinschi Vladimir Voronin Mihai Ghimpu (acting) Vlad Filat (acting) Marian Lupu (acting) Nicolae Timofti Igor Dodon