Romanian Masons

Carol Davila

Carol Davila, by Theodor Aman

Carol Davila (Charles Davilla) (1828 - 24 August 1884) Mason, was a prestigious Romanian physician of Italian ancestry.

He started from humble beginnings, most probably as an abandoned child, and the surname Davila was bestowed on him by his adoptive family.

Davila studied medicine at the University of Paris, graduating in February 1853. In March 1853, he arrived in Romania. He was the organizer of the military medical service for the Romanian Army and of the country's public health system. Davila, together with Nicolae Kretzulescu, inaugurated medical training in Romania in 1857, by founding the National School of Medicine and Pharmacy. It was he who had determined government authorities to issue the first official instructions concerning the health care of factory workers and the organisation of medical districts in the country.

Alexandru Ioan Cuza

Alexandru Ioan Cuza

Alexandru Ioan Cuza (20 March 1820 - 15 May 1873), Freemason, was a Moldavian-born Romanian politician who ruled as the first Domnitor of the United Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia between 1859 and 1866.

Cuza achieved a de facto union of Romanian principalites in 1859. The union was formally declared three years later, on 5 February 1862, (24 January Julian), the new country bearing the name of Romania, with Bucharest as its capital city.

Assisted by his councilor Mihail Kogalniceanu, an intellectual leader of the 1848 revolution and Freemason, Cuza initiated a series of reforms that contributed to the modernization of Romanian society and of state structures.

Miron Cristea

Miron Cristea

Miron Cristea (monastic name of Elie Cristea; July 20, 1868-March 6, 1939) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian cleric, politician and Freemason.

A bishop in Hungarian-ruled Transylvania, Cristea was elected Metropolitan-Primate of the Orthodox Church of the newly unified Greater Romania in 1919. As the Church was raised to a rank of Patriarchy, Miron Cristea was enthroned as the first Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church in 1925.

King Carol II of Romania

Carol II al Romaniei

His Majesty Carol II, King of Romania, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (15 October/16 October 1893 - 4 April 1953) reigned as King of Romania from 8 June 1930 until 6 September 1940. Eldest son of Ferdinand I, King of Romania, and his wife, Queen Marie, a daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second eldest son of Queen Victoria. He was the first of the Romanian royal family who was baptized in the Orthodox rite.

Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino

Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino

Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino (22 September 1833 - 22 March 1913), Freemason, was a Conservative Romanian politician who twice served as the Prime Minister of Romania: between 23 April 1899 and 19 July 1900 and between 4 January 1906 and 24 March 1907.

He was born into the Romanian noble Cantacuzino family and was a descendant of Romanian voivods and Byzantine Emperors. The Cantacuzino Palace of Bucharest (nowadays the George Enescu Museum) and the Cantacuzino Castle of Busteni were built by him.

He had five sons. The third son, Nicolae Cantacuzino was the richest man in Romania before the land reform the followed World War I. Nicolae had three sons and two daughters-Stefan, Marga, Andronic, Senta and George Henri.

Ion C. Bratianu

Ion C. Bratianu

Ion C. Bratianu (June 2, 1821 - May 16, 1891) was a Freemason and one of the major political figures of 19th century Romania. He was the younger brother of Dimitrie, as well as the father of Ionel, Dinu, and Vintila Bratianu.

Born to wealthy Arges landowners in Pitesti, the state of Wallachia, he entered the Wallachian Army in 1838, and in 1841 started studying in Paris. Returning to his native land, Bratianu took part, with his friend C. A. Rosetti and other young politicians (including his brother), in the 1848 Wallachian Revolution, and acted as prefect of police in the provisional government formed in that year.

Dimitrie C. Bratianu

Dumitru C. Bratianu

Dimitrie Bratianu (1818–1892) was the Prime Minister of Romania from 22 April to 21 June 1881 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from April 10, 1881 until June 8, 1881.

He was an active Mason in Lodge: "L'Athénée des Etrangers" and "La Rose du Parfait Silence".

Dimitrie Bolintineanu

Dimitrie Bolintineanu

Dimitrie Bolintineanu (January 14 1819, Bolintin-Vale - August 20 1872, Bucharest) was a Romanian Mason, poet (though he wrote in many other styles as well), diplomat, politician, and a participant in the revolution of 1848.

He was of Macedonian Aromanian origins.

His many poems, of nationalist overtone, fueled emotions during the unification of Wallachia and Moldavia.

George Valentin Bibescu

George Valentin Bibescu

George-Valentin Bibescu (March 22, 1880, Bucharest - July 2, 1941, Bucharest), was a Romanian early aviation pioneer. Bibescu was Grand Master of Romanian Grand Lodge from 1911 to 1916.

He was instrumental in founding the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI). He was co-founder of the Romanian Automobile Club (1901), and of the Romanian Olympic Committee (1914). Romania was among the first 6 nations in the world to organize car races.

George Valentin Bibescu is the founder Baneasa airport in Bucharest, which was builded on the former estate of her aunt, Maria Bibescu, Countess of Montesquiou Fezensac.

Simion Barnutiu

Simion Barnutiu

Simion Barnutiu (21 July 1808 - 28 May 1864) was a Romanian historian, academic, philosopher, jurist, liberal politician and Freemason. A leader of the 1848 revolutionary movement of Transylvanian Romanians, he represented its Eastern Rite Catholic wing. Barnutiu lived for a large part of his life in Moldavia, and was for long a professor of philosophy at Academia Mihaileana and at the University of Iasi.

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