Anton Crihan
| Anton Crihan | |
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| Member of Sfatul Ţării | |
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In office 1917–1918 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
July 10, 1893 Sîngerei |
| Died |
January 9, 1993 (aged 99) St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
| Resting place | Chişinău |
| Political party | National Peasants' Party |
| Spouse(s) | Olivia Lula |
| Children | Dumitru Crihan ( 1924-1999) |
| Alma mater | Odessa University |
| Religion | Eastern Orthodoxy |
Anton Crihan (July 10, 1893, Sîngerei- January 9, 1993, St. Louis, Mo) was a Bessarabian politician.
Biography
Anton Crihan served as Member of Sfatul Ţării (1917-1918), the Parliament of Romania, and the Government of Romania. After World War I and the Communist revolution in Russia, Dr. Crihan, was among the handful of campaigners who succeeded in annexing most of Bessarabia to Romania. He became politically active in Romania, which was then governed by a constitutional monarchy. Trained as an economist, he served on the Central Committee of the National Peasant Party, was elected to several terms in Parliament and was appointed Agriculture Minister. After the Soviet occupation of Romania, Crihan fled on foot to Yugoslavia and arrived in the United States in 1949. After the Soviet takeover, Dr. Crihan went into hiding and then fled on foot. He made his way across Europe spending time in Paris to complete a PhD in Economics at the Sorbonne. He finally arrived in the United States in 1949, where he delivered lectures and wrote articles and books championing the reunification of Moldavia and Romania. Moldavia, now known as Moldova, gained independence when the Soviet Union disintegrated in late 1991.
Works
- Capitalul străin în Rusia (1915)
- Chestiunea agrară în Basarabia (1917)
Honours
- Order Ferdinand I
- Steaua României
- A street in the center of Chisinau, the capital of the Republic of Moldova has been named after Anton Crihan. (See strada Anton Crihan).
Gallery
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Moldovan stamp, 1998
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Sfatul Ţării Palace, December 10, 1918
Bibliography
- Gheorghe E. Cojocaru, Sfatul ţării: itinerar, Civitas, Chişinău, 1998, ISBN 9975-936-20-2
- Mihai Taşcă, Sfatul Ţării şi actualele autorităţi locale, "Timpul de dimineaţă", no. 114 (849), June 27, 2008 (page 16)
- Eremia, Anatol (2001) (în română). Unitatea patrimoniului onomastic românesc. Toponimie. Antroponimie (ed. ediţie jubiliară). Chişinău: Centrul Naţional de Terminologie, ed. „Iulian”. pp. p. 57. ISBN 9975-922-45-7.
- Alexandru Chiriac. Membrii Sfatului Ţării. 1917-1918. Dicţionar, Editura Fundaţiei Culturale Române, Bucureşti, 2001.
External links
- Anton Crihan Dead; Moldova Exile, 99, Escaped Soviet Rule
- Arhiva pentru Sfatul Tarii
- Deputaţii Sfatului Ţării şi Lavrenti Beria
- Biblio Polis - Vol. 25 (2008) Nr. 1 (Serie nouă)
- 2013 Postage stamp issued by the Republic of Moldova
