Alexandru B. Știrbei

Alexandru Barbu Știrbei
Știrbei with his seven daughters, on the steps of their palace at Buftea
Conservative Party chairman
In office November 6, 1881 – November 22, 1881
Romanian Minister of Public Works
In office March 1888 – November 1888
Romanian Minister of the Interior
In office November 1888 – March 1889
Romanian Minister of Finance
In office November 1891 – December 1891
Personal details
Born	1837 Bucharest, Wallachia
Died	March 13, 1895(1895-03-13) (aged 57–58) Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania
Nationality	Wallachian (to 1859) Romanian (after 1859)
Spouse(s)	Maria Ghica-Comănești
Relations	Barbu Dimitrie Știrbei (father) George Barbu Știrbei (brother) Gheorghe Bibescu (uncle) Zoe Brâncoveanu (aunt) Alexandru Bibescu (cousin) Ion Emanuel Florescu (brother-in-law) Alexandru Plagino (brother-in-law) Antoine Bibesco (nephew) George Valentin Bibescu (nephew) Georg Larisch of Moennich (nephew) Consuelo Fould (niece) Georges Achille Fould (niece) Alexandru Marghiloman (son-in-law)
Children	Eliza Brătianu, Barbu Știrbey, and six others
Profession	Businessman, journalist, soldier

Alexandru Barbu Știrbei, also rendered Alex. Știrbeĭ, Știrbey, or Știrbeiŭ (Francized Alexandre Stirbey; 1837 – March 13, 1895), was a Wallachian-born Romanian aristocrat, politician, businessman and agriculturalist, the son of Barbu Dimitrie Știrbei, Prince of Wallachia, younger brother of George Barbu Știrbei, and nephew of another Prince, Gheorghe Bibescu. After a short career in the French Army, he returned to the United Principalities and served terms in their Assembly of Deputies, inheriting the fortune left by his father. He established pioneering industries around his manorial estates of Buftea and Dărmănești, and became a guest, and sometime host, of literary meetings held by the political club Junimea.

Știrbei's father renounced all claims to the Romanian throne in the 1860s, and his entire family remained loyal to King Carol I. While caucusing with the Junimists, Știrbei also helped establish the Conservative Party, and served as its leader for three weeks in 1881. He was the Romanian Kingdom's Minister of Public Works and Minister of the Interior under Theodor Rosetti (1888–1889); he only served one more term in a cabinet, as Finance Minister under Ion Emanuel Florescu (1891). Știrbei personally dealt with the ramifications of the Strousberg Affair, which led him to participate in the creation of Romania's railway grid.