Alexandru Moșanu

Alexandru Moşanu
President of Parliament
In office September 3, 1990 – February 2, 1993
Preceded by	Mircea Snegur
Succeeded by	Petru Lucinschi
Member of the Moldovan Parliament
In office 1990–1998
Personal details
Born	(1932-07-19) July 19, 1932 Branişte, Romania (now Moldova)
Political party	Social Liberal Party (Moldova)
Other political affiliations	Popular Front of Moldova
Alma mater	Moldova State University
Profession	Historian
Religion	Eastern Orthodoxy

Alexandru Moşanu (born July 19, 1932 in Branişte, Rîşcani) is a Moldovan politician, historian and professor.

Biography

Alexandru Moşanu was born on July 19, 1932 in Branişte, Romania (now in Rîşcani 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.

Moşanu is 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. member of the Romanian Academy. Between 2002 and 2005 Mosanu was the Honorary Chairman of the Social Liberal Party (Moldova).

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

Awards

• Romanian Cultural Institute Prize

Works

• Mişcări sociale şi politice din România în epoca modernă
• Istoriografia românească
• Unitatea poporului român şi Mişcarea de Renaştere şi de Eliberare Naţională a românilor basarabeni
• Alexandru Mosanu, Destin Românesc, Chişinău, 1994;
• Alexandru Moşanu, Un pilon de granit al Rezistenţei basarabene în Litetarura şi Arta, 17 iulie 2003.

External links

• Interviu cu Alexandru Moşanu
• Yalta - Rubbing Salt in Romania’s Historical Wounds
• Ştire despre retragerea lui A.Moşanu din funcţia de preşedinte de onoare al PSL