- Hurmuzachi brothers
The Hurmuzachi brothers, Alexandru (1823-1871), Constantin (1811-1869), Eudoxiu (1812-1874), Gheorghe (1817-1882), and Nicolae (1826-1909) were members of an old
Hurmuzachi family of Romanian nobles in AustrianBukovina [Chastain] of Greek origin,Fact|date=April 2007 with an estate inCernăuca . They were activists in the Romanian national movement in Bukovina and elsewhere. [Chastain]Their estate was a center of activity for
Romanians during the Revolutions of 1848, and they were later a key source of material and financial support to nationalist exiles, as well as a point of contact through whom the ideas of the exiles reentered the country. [Chastain]Their father was Doxachi (Doxache, Doxaki) Hurmuzachi (Hurmuzaki). [Preotesoiu]
Eudoxiu and Alexandru Hurmuzachi were members of the
Romanian Academy . [Chastain]Notes
References
*en icon James Chastain, [http://www.ohiou.edu/~chastain/dh/hurmuz.htm Hurmuzachi Brothers] , in online "Encyclopedia of 1848 revolutions"
*ro icon Carmen Preotesoiu, [http://www.jurnalul.ro/articol_41773/patrioti_cu_inima__cu_fapta.html Patrioti cu inima, cu fapta] ("Patriots in heart and deed"), "Jurnalul Naţional ",2 December ,2005 -- article about the Hurmuzachi family
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