Hurmuzachi

Constantin Hormuzaki (Romanian Hurmuzachi also Hurmuzaki ) ( born November 12, 1811 in Chernivtsi ( Cernăuţi ); † February 15, 1869 in Vienna, buried in Dulcesti, Neamţ county ), was in the Duchy of Bukovina born and raised Austrian jurist and Romanian politician and Minister.

Origin

The family, which is its name in Greek, fanariotischer descent, belonged to the nobility of Moldova. In 1636 a Hurmuzaki was gifted for his services for the sofa from Prince of Moldavia with an estate. Under the reign of Prince Nikolaus Mavrocordatos, a Fanariot, Emanuel equerry and sofa was a member.

His grandfather Constantin Hurmuzaki († 1794), whose grandfather had been Großpitar and whose father Großpaharnik, purchased in 1765 the estate Cernăuca ( German: Czernawka ) in the former Principality of Moldavia (now in the Raion Noua Sulita ) in Ukraine. His son Doxaki went as a young man in the southern Moldavia, but returned in the year 1804 in Bukovina (Northern Moldavia ) back and the family now began here permanently residence.

Constantine's father Doxaki (1782-1857) granted under high financial commitment Romanian leaders from Transylvania refuge, who had fled for political reasons. His brothers were the politicians and Alexander Eudoxius.

Biography

Already on October 4, 1823, he wrote as a student a political letter to Emperor Franz I. After graduating from high school in Czernowitz, he studied from 1830 to 1836 together with his brother Eudoxius of Hormuzaki at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna. He then worked mainly in since 1812 annexed by Russia Bessarabia in Chisinau, as well as in St. Petersburg. In 1840 he became renowned through the processes gained in St. Petersburg for the Moldovan Grigore Lupu Chancellor Balş against the Russian state.

In 1848 he was co-editor of appearing in Romanian and German newspaper Gazeta Bucovinei. Together with his brother he sat down for one of the Bukovina autonomy as a crown land within the Habsburg Monarchy.

Because of a quarrel with his father in a love affair he left Bukovina and moved to the Principality of Moldova.

In 1850 he became a member of the Executive Board for the reorganization of public education, in which he laid down the general school rules. In 1852 he worked out a design for a new criminal law. For this he was awarded the title of Aga, a short time later it the function of the head of the Princely Court's (Romanian: mare vornic ) awarded. With the royal decree of April 1, 1856 he was formally naturalized. In the aftermath Constantin strongly advocated the union of the Romanian principalities one, especially in the context of the "committee of the Association " ( Comitetul Unirii ).

The deputy was after the unification of the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia under Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza in 1859 minister of justice ( = Minister of Justice ), Romanian after the proclamation of the State of Romania Minister of Justice, based in Iasi (17 January 1861).

Although seriously ill, he was appointed in the Kingdom of Romania in 1868 as Chairman of the Court of Appeal in Bucharest, an office which he did not really exercised, because he went for medical treatment to Vienna, where he died soon.

He leads in each case to honor a street in Constanta and Sibiu his name.