Alexandru II Ghica

Alexandru II Ghica ( born May 1, 1795 † January 1862 ) was a Romanian politician.

Alexander X. was the first governor of the Lesser Wallachia, in 1828 Großspathar or commander in chief of the militia, when the Russians marched into the country, there to remain until 1834. On the recommendation of the Russian general Pavel Kiselyov Count and he was appointed by the Porte to Gospodar Wallachia in March 1834.

He began his administration with liberal measures, and endeavored to arouse in the Danubian Principalities an independent national life that was to emancipate itself from the Turkish influence as the Russian guardianship; so he founded elementary schools and facilitated the peasant burdens and the bondage of the Gypsies.

Nevertheless, he could not satisfy the extreme left and looked at last compelled in 1837, in Saint Petersburg nachzusuchen against this for help; they told him to, but at the same time pulled the independence of Wallachia in Constitutional and Administrative Affairs narrower limits. The suppression of the revolutionary movement of the Liberals (1840 ) as well as a conspiracy of the beneficiary by the Russians Altbojaren led Ghicas fall brought about. Russia, the energy Ghicas appeared dangerous, meant that Sultan Abdülmecid I dropped him in October 1842 to the Russian candidate Gheorghe Bibescu sat in his place.

He lived on this for several years in northern Italy until 1853 in Vienna, reigned after the Crimean War again from 1856 to 1859 as Kaimakam (prince governor ) Wallachia and died in January 1862 childless in Italy.

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• Politicians (Romania )
• Romanian
• Born in 1795
• Died in 1862
• Man