Alexandri

Alexandri, or ALESANDRI, VASILIO, Roumanian poet and patriot, was born at Jassy in 1821. Educated at Paris, he returned to Jassy in 1839, and attached himself to a party of young men, who, influenced by Western ideas, were at once ambitious of literary distinction, and zealous for political equality and for Roumanian nationality. His share in the abortive revolution of 1848 obliged him for a time to take refuge in Paris, but he then and always laboured incessantly through the press and otherwise for Roumanian independence. He was foreign minister under Ghiika in 1859-60. His first volume of verse appeared in 1852; his complete works including dramas, in 1873-76. He died 4th September 1890.