Alexandru Moșanu Explained

Alexandru Moșanu
Office:1st President of the Moldovan Parliament
Term Start:27 August 1991
Term End:2 February 1993
Birth Date:1932 7, df=yes
Birth Place:Braniște, Kingdom of Romania
Death Place:Chișinău, Moldova
Party:Social Liberal Party (Moldova)
Otherparty:Popular Front of Moldova
Alma Mater:Moldova State University
Profession:Historian
Office2:Member of the Moldovan Parliament
Termend2:25 February 2001
Termstart2:17 April 1990
Citizenship:
Office3:Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of SSR Moldova
Termstart3:3 September 1990
Termend3:27 August 1991
Predecessor3:Mircea Snegur
President3:Mircea Snegur
Primeminister3:Mircea Druc
Deputy:Ion Hadârcă
President:Mircea Snegur
Primeminister:Valeriu Muravschi
Andrei Sangheli
Successor:Petru Lucinschi
Constituency2:Strășeni
Parliamentarygroup2:Popular Front
Honorific Suffix:OR

Alexandru Moșanu (19 July 1932 – 7 December 2017) was a Moldovan politician, historian and professor.

Biography

Alexandru Moșanu was born in Braniște, Kingdom of Romania (now in Rîșcani District, Moldova). He was the first speaker of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova between 1990 and 1993. He was also one of the co-authors of Moldova's 1991 Declaration of Independence.

Moșanu was the author of over 100 works on the history of Moldova and Romania. His most important contribution as an author is a study on Romanian historiography published in Moscow in 1988. In 1993, he became a foreign honorary member of the Romanian Academy. Between 2002 and 2005 Moșanu was the Honorary Chairman of the Social Liberal Party.

He was a leader of the Democratic Forum of Romanians in Moldova.

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