Sturdza family
Sturdza, Sturza or Stourdza is the name of an old Romanian aristocratic family, whose origins can be traced back to the 1540s.
The Sturdza Castle in Miclăuşeni
Political family
The Sturdza family, a Moldavian princely family, has been long and intimately associated with the government first of Moldavia and afterwards of Romania. Its members belong to two main branches, which trace their descent from either Ioan Sturdza or Alexandru "Sandu" Sturdza, the sons of Chiriac Sturdza, who lived in the 17th century, and may be regarded as the founder of the family.[1] Members active in government:
- Ioan Sturdza prince of Moldavia from 1822 to 1828
- Mihail Sturdza (1795–1884), ruler of Moldavia from 1834 to 1849, modernizer of Moldavia
- Alexandru Sturdza, also known as Alexandre Stourdza (1791–1854), Russian publicist and diplomatist
- Grigore Sturdza (1821–1901), son of Mihail, army general and politician
- Dimitrie Sturdza (1833–1914), Romanian statesman
- Dimitrie C. Sturdza-Scheianu, Romanian historian
- Mihail R. Sturdza (1886–1980), Romanian minister of Foreign Affairs
- Mihai Dimitrie Sturdza (1934-2020), Romanian historian
Others
- Roxandra Sturdza
- Constantin Sturdza (born 1989), tennis player
- Marina Sturdza (1944-2017), former Romanian Princess and humanitarian activist.
References
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gaster, Moses (1911). "Sturdza". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 1051.
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