Anton Crihan

Anton Crihan
Member of Sfatul Ţării
In office
1917–1918
Personal details
Born (1893-07-10)July 10, 1893
Sîngerei
Died January 9, 1993(1993-01-09) (aged 99)
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Resting place Chişinău
Political party National Peasants' Party
Spouse(s) Olivia Lula
Children Dumitru Crihan (1924-1999)
Alma mater Odessa University, Paris-Sorbonne University

Anton Crihan (July 10, 1893, Sîngerei- January 9, 1993, St. Louis, Mo) was a Bessarabian politician.

Biography

Anton Crihan served as Member of Sfatul Ţării (1917-1918), the Parliament of Romania, and the Government of Romania. After World War I and the Communist revolution in Russia, Dr. Crihan, was among the handful of campaigners who succeeded in annexing most of Bessarabia to Romania. He became politically active in Romania, which was then governed by a constitutional monarchy. Trained as an economist, he served on the Central Committee of the National Peasant Party, was elected to several terms in Parliament and was appointed Agriculture Minister. After the Soviet occupation of Romania, Crihan fled on foot to Yugoslavia and arrived in the United States in 1949. After the Soviet takeover, Dr. Crihan went into hiding and then fled on foot. He made his way across Europe spending time in Paris to complete a PhD in Economics at the Sorbonne. He finally arrived in the United States in 1949, where he delivered lectures and wrote articles and books championing the reunification of Moldavia and Romania. Moldavia, now known as Moldova, gained independence when the Soviet Union disintegrated in late 1991.

Works

  • Capitalul străin în Rusia (1915)
  • Chestiunea agrară în Basarabia (1917)
  • Cum s'a facut unirea Basarabiei cu România (1969)
  • O scrisoare catre Generalul C. Petre-Lazar (1976)
  • Romanian Rights to Bessarabia According to Certain Russian Sources (1986)
  • Drepturile românilor asupra Basarabiei după unele surse rusești (1995)

Honours

Bibliography

  • Gheorghe E. Cojocaru, Sfatul ţării: itinerar, Civitas, Chişinău, 1998, ISBN 9975-936-20-2
  • Mihai Taşcă, Sfatul Ţării şi actualele autorităţi locale, "Timpul de dimineaţă", no. 114 (849), June 27, 2008 (page 16)
  • Eremia, Anatol (2001) (în română). Unitatea patrimoniului onomastic românesc. Toponimie. Antroponimie (ed. ediţie jubiliară). Chişinău: Centrul Naţional de Terminologie, ed. „Iulian”. p. 57. ISBN 9975-922-45-7.
  • Alexandru Chiriac. Membrii Sfatului Ţării. 1917-1918. Dicţionar, Editura Fundaţiei Culturale Române, Bucureşti, 2001.

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