Ion Inculeţ

Ion C. Inculeţ (April 5 1884 - November 18 1940) was a Romanian politician, the president of Sfatul Ţării of the Moldavian Democratic Republic, minister in Romania and a member of the Romanian Academy.

Biography

Born in Răzeni, the Russian Empire, now in Republic of Moldova, Inculeţ graduated the Chişinău Seminary, studied medicine for a year at the Estonian Dorpat University and then he moved to Saint Petersburg, where he graduated in science at the Saint Petersburg University, working there as a lecturer. Antonina Inculeţ, Emanuel Bădescu, " [http://www.itcnet.ro/history/archive/mi2000/current11/mi29.htm 1918. Ion Inculeţ la Academia Română] ", "Magazin Istoric", no.11/2000]

After getting his PhD in 1915, Inculeţ works as physicist at the Meteorological Observatory, while in the same time, he writes for the "Basarabia" newspaper of Constantin Stere. Participating in the February Revolution, on May 25 Inculeţ was sent by Alexander Kerensky as a representative of the Russian Provisional Government to Bessarabia to follow the evolution of events.

Sfatul Ţării, a representative body was formed on November 21 1917, and Inculeţ is chosen in unanimity its president. On 27 March 1918, Sfatul Ţării decides the unification of Bessarabia with Romania and Inculeţ is named "Minister for Bessarabia" in the Romanian government.

On October 22 1918 (October 9 O.S.), Ioan Simionescu proposed Inculeţ to be a member of the Romanian Academy and he was elected as a full member on the meeting which took place the following day. His inaugural speech was named "Space and time in new scientific light" and it talked about the importance of Einstein's 1916 Theory of Relativity.

Together with Pan Halippa, Inculeţ founded the Bessarabian Peasants' Party, which militated for land reform in Bessarabia. In 1923, his wing of the party joined the National Liberal Party.

Inculeţ died on 18 October 1940 and was burried in Bucharest, at the Bellu Cemetery.

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