Alexandru Moșanu

Alexandru Moșanu (19 July 1932 – 7 December 2017) was a Moldovan politician, historian and professor.

Alexandru Moșanu OR
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1st President of the Moldovan Parliament
In office 27 August 1991 – 2 February 1993
President	Mircea Snegur
Prime Minister	Valeriu Muravschi Andrei Sangheli
Deputy	Ion Hadârcă
Succeeded by	Petru Lucinschi
Member of the Moldovan Parliament
In office 17 April 1990 – 25 February 2001
Parliamentary group	Popular Front
Constituency	Strășeni
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of SSR Moldova
In office 3 September 1990 – 27 August 1991
President	Mircea Snegur
Prime Minister	Mircea Druc
Preceded by	Mircea Snegur
Personal details
Born	(1932-07-19)19 July 1932 Braniște, Kingdom of Romania
Died	7 December 2017(2017-12-07) (aged 85) Chișinău, Moldova
Citizenship	Moldova Romania
Political party	Social Liberal Party (Moldova)
Other political affiliations	Popular Front of Moldova
Alma mater	Moldova State University
Profession	Historian

Biography

Alexandru Moșanu was born in Braniște, Kingdom of Romania (now in Rîșcani 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.

Moșanu was 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 Moșanu was the Honorary Chairman of the Social Liberal Party.

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

Awards

• Romanian Cultural Institute Prize

Works

• Mișcări sociale și politice din România în epoca modernă
• Istoriografia românească
• Unitatea poporului român și Mișcarea de Renaștere și de Eliberare Națională a românilor basarabeni
• Alexandru Moșanu, Destin Românesc, Chișinău, 1994;
• Alexandru Moșanu, Un pilon de granit al Rezistenţei basarabene în Literatura și 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 Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
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