Mihail Sturdza

Mihail Sturdza was born the April 24th 1794, with Iaşi and he died the May 8th 1884, with Paris. He was reigning prince of the Moldavie, between the April 3rd 1834 and the June 1849. He reigned in accordance with the Organic Payment ( Regulamentul Organic , in Rumanian). Although it was under the protection of Turkish, it entered the sphere of influence of the Russia. He liked the culture and he was a good administrator.

Origin

Mihail Sturdza was the son of the logothète Grigore Sturdza.

Education and culture

Mihail Sturdza was attentive with the state of teaching. In June 1835, it founded an university, level of the college and university: Academia Mihăileană , (thus called according to its first name), where very known Rumanian professors taught: Ion Ghica, Eftimie Murgu, and for little time, Mihail Kogălniceanu. This last, taught the national history. The ideas of the courses of this one were not approved by the Russian tsar, Nicolas I {{er}}, and, into consequent, the Russian consul of Iaşi asked for and obtained the suppression of these courses of national history. Except the history, one taught mathematics, of the languages, the economy, agronomy, philosophy. The poor pupils, but deserving received purses. At the time of Mihail Sturdza, one reorganized the orthodoxe theological seminar of Socola and one organized a control concerning the administration of the goods of the monasteries and connected with the church.

Economy

Concerning the economy of the country, during the reign of Mihail Sturdza, one recorded a remarkable rise, the production of cereals intensified. Some horse threshing-machines functioned, during the harvest, in Moldavie, at this time. One organized factories, one built new bridges and new roadways, one regulated navigation on the river of Prut and on the river of Siret, one arranged the port Galaţi, which was declared Oporto frank (1837). In the area of Bacău, one extracted from oil. In 1835, the Moldavie, under Mihail Sturdza, concluded an economic convention and, in 1846, a Customs union, with the Valachie, coming into effect, on January 1st 1848. Moldavie of the time was integrated, like the Valachie, in the same way, in the European economic channel. One exported cattle, cereals, structural timber, fish, salt, wine. One imported industrial products. In general, the trade balance of Moldavie was surplus.

Reform social

The January 31st 1844, by a decree, Mihail Sturdza delivered slavery the Tziganes which were in Moldavian monastery and state-owned property.

Its character

But Mihail Sturdza also had defects: it was avid of money, although it had an immense fortune. Towards the end of its reign, it was too obeying the government tsarist. By its great cupidity, it sold titles of nobility, against of large money sums. Like example titrates: at the beginning of its reign, in Moldavie there were 853 boyards, and at the end of its reign there were 3750 boyards. This immense cupidity and philosophy tsarism did it very unpopular. The revolutionary movement of 1848, although it was choked by reigning prince Mihail Sturdza, by its continuations, led to the loss of the throne.

Its end

Mihail Sturdza died in Paris, the May 8th 1889, and it was buried with Baden-Baden, in Germany.

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