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Ion Constantin Inculet (Russian Ivan Konstantinovich Inkulez ) (born 5 Apriljul / April 17 1884greg in Răzeni, .. † November 18, 1940 in Bucharest ) was a naturalist and politician with Romanian origin, who campaigned politically for his home Bessarabia.

Origin and life

Ion Inculet comes from a Moldavian peasant family in the village in the district Răzeni Lapusna, located in Rajon Ialoveni today. The father was Gheorghe Constantin (Russian Gheorghevici ) Inculet, the mother Mariei Nicolae (Russian Nicolaevna ) Inculet, born Ionaş, from the village Cainari in the former county Tighina, today located in Rajon Căuşeni. The family moved a few years after his birth Cainari in the place of birth of the mother. In 1919 he married Ruxanda Cantacuzino, daughter of a wealthy landowner. The couple had two children, Jon and Georgel. The brother of Ion Inculet, George Inculet, lived as a blacksmith in the village Cainari. The grandson of Ion Inculet, Pavel, was Romanian administrative officer and married a German teacher Bessarabia. The family was resettled in 1940 with the rest of Bessarabia Germans to Germany. Ion Inculet died in 1940 at the age of 56 years in Bucharest from heart disease and was buried in Cernica monastery in Ilfov County. In the Soviet invasion in 1944 in Romania, his grave was desecrated. Cause was the Romanian hostility of the Soviets because of the Romanian participation in the Russian campaign. Today, a street is named in the center of Chisinau to him. His wife Roxana Cantacuzino died on 21 May 1942 at the age of 50 in Bucharest. She was initially buried at his side in Cernica. In the 1940s, both were given a family grave in the 1942 to 1947 resulting in Barnova church not far from Iaşi, built following their sons Ion and Georgel.

Scientific way

Ion Inculet was a self-taught from an early age. In 1899 he finished school. He first began to study at the theological seminary in Kishinev, which he finished in 1905 with the best note. After that, he wrote the short term as a student at the Estonian University of Tartu. From 1906 to 1911 he studied physics and mathematics at the Faculty of Sciences in St. Petersburg and graduated with a diploma. In 1914 he held a position as a physicist at the Russian Wetteroberservatorium. At the same time he taught at a business school mathematics. At the St. Petersburg University he held as a private lectures on astronomy and mathematics. Between 1912-1917 he wrote a number of scientific papers on the topics of radioactivity, X-rays, Doppler effect, ionization of the atmosphere.

Political way

Russian Revolution

In 1906 and 1907, Ion Inculet involved in Saint Petersburg at the Russian Revolution, the 1905 continuing to 1907 revolutionary disturbances in Tsarist Russia. He met Lenin, Trotsky and Kerensky know. Later, he was attracted by the socialist ideas of the Russian Revolution of February 1917. Ion Inculet got himself elected in the Petrograd workers, peasants and soldiers. In August 1917 he returned to Kishinev. He wanted to play an active role in the onset of revolutionary events in his Bessarabian home.

Independence and connection of Bessarabia

Early on Ion Inculet committed to the independence of Bessarabia. 1906/ 07 he wrote under the pseudonym Ion Gandu article for the newspaper Basarabia, the first Romanian language newspaper Bessarabia. Even later, in 1917, he sympathized in Saint Petersburg with students, the Bessarabian autonomy demands presented. In 1917 he returned to Bessarabia and was elected President of the Sfatul Ţării ( German: Councillor ) chosen. That was an opening formed in Kishinev on November 2, 1917 National General Assembly of Bessarabia, which should decide on the fate of the former Russian province after the Czar was overthrown in the house of the February Revolution of 1917.

In December 1917 Ion Inculet was in his capacity as President of the Sfatul Ţării President of the Democratic Moldavian Republic, which split off as an autonomous part of the Russian Empire. Short term, in January 1918 Renamed Moldavian Democratic Republic until the proclamation of the connection to Romania in March 1918. As the bessarabisch - Romanian unification was carried out in November 1918, the provincial government disbanded.

Romanian career

Subsequently, he continued his political career in Romania. On October 10, 1918 he was elected a member of the " Academia Română " ( Academy of Sciences of Romania ). In the same year he became a deputy of the Romanian Parliament and later a senator. In 1923 he joined the " National Liberal Party " in and was soon one of its most important representatives. Already in 1918 he was appointed by the Romanian Government in her cabinet, where he held several ministerial posts until 1940. He was Minister of State, Health and Social Affairs Minister and Interior Minister. During the crisis-ridden for Romania summer 1940, he was re-appointed as Minister of State. On June 28, the Soviet Union Bessarabia and parts of Bukovina had occupied as a result of the Hitler -Stalin Pact.

Works

Books:

• Spaţiul şi în Timpul noua Lumina ştiinţifică, Bucharest 1920, rum. Language ( The space and time in the new light of science )
• Ma Première rencontre avec Saint Aulaire, 1930, French language, ( My first encounter with Saint Aulaire )
• U.R.S.S., Bucharest 1932