Andrei Pleșu
| Andrei Gabriel Pleșu | |
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| Minister of Culture | |
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In office 26 December 1989 – 16 October 1991 |
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| President | Ion Iliescu |
| Prime Minister |
Petre Roman Theodor Stolojan (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Ludovic Spiess |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 29 December 1997 – 22 December 1999 |
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| President | Emil Constantinescu |
| Prime Minister |
Victor Ciorbea Gavril Dejeu Radu Vasile Alexandru Athanasiu |
| Preceded by | Adrian Severin |
| Succeeded by | Petre Roman |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
23 August 1948 Bucharest |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Spouse(s) | Catrinel-Maria Petrulian |
Andrei Gabriel Pleșu (Romanian pronunciation: [anˈdrej ˈpleʃu]; born 23 August 1948) is a Romanian philosopher, essayist, journalist, literary and art critic. He has been intermittently involved in politics assuming the roles of Minister of Culture (1989–91), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1997–99) and presidential counsellor for external affairs (2004–05).
Born in Bucharest, the son of Radu Pleșu, a surgeon and Zoe Pleșu (born Rădulescu), he spent much of his early youth in the country side. He started school in Sinaia, but attended the village school in Pârscov, in the Nehoiu Valley from 1955 to 1957, and often returned to the mountains during school holidays. Pleșu attended the Spiru Haret Lyceum in Bucharest majoring in humanities, where he graduated at the top of his class.
Pleșu studied art history at the University of Bucharest and graduated with his bachelor's in 1971. That year, he accepted a post as a researcher at the Institute of Art History of the Romanian Academy. In 1972 he married Catrinel Maria Petrulian. While a student, he became a member of the Communist Party, from which he was expelled in May 1982 due to his involvement in the so-called "Transcendental Meditation Affair". For 1975–1977 he received the first of his Alexander von Humboldt Foundation graduate scholarships to study in Bonn and Heidelberg. From 1978 through 1982, along with Gabriel Liiceanu, he attended Constantin Noica's informal and semi-clandestine lectures in Păltiniș. In 1980 he became a faculty lecturer in the Art department at the University of Bucharest. However, in 1982 he was barred from further university teaching for "political reasons", and took a job as a consultant for the Artists Union. He received his second Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for 1983–1984, and upon his return again worked at the Institute of Art History.
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