![]() ![]() In 1959, Paleologu was arrested and sentenced to 14 years of forced labour. After the Communists regime was established, he was under surveillance by the Securitate, and he lived hidden and under a false name in Câmpulung until 1956, when he began working as a researcher at the Romanian Academy in the Institute of Ancient Art History. In 1944, after the Royal Coup that overthrew Ion Antonescu's dictatorship and took Romania out of the Axis, Paleologu took part in the Romanian committee of the armistice with the Allies and, between 19, worked for the Romanian Royal Ministry of External Affairs. He graduated from the Spiru Haret High School in Bucharest and then he studied law at the University of Bucharest. Alexandru Paleologu's father, Mihail Paleologu, was a lawyer and National Liberal Member of Parliament, later general secretary in the Ministries of Justice and of Finance, who was known for his association with Grigore Iunian. Paleologu was also, through various marriages, a descendant of the Wallachian Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu. His ancestors had moved from Lesbos Island to the Danubian Principalities at the beginning of the 18th century. ![]() Paleologu was born in Bucharest, into an ancient Romanian boyar family that claimed descent from the Palaiologoi, the last ruling dynasty of the Byzantine Empire. He is the father of historian Theodor Paleologu. Alexandru Paleologu ( Romanian pronunciation: Ma– September 2, 2005) was a Romanian essayist, literary critic, diplomat, and politician. ![]()
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