Ion Ghica
| Ion Ghica | |
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| 5th Prime Minister of Romania | |
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In office February 11, 1866 – May 10, 1866 |
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| Monarch | Carol I |
| Preceded by | Nicolae Crețulescu |
| Succeeded by | Lascăr Catargiu |
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In office July 15, 1866 – February 21, 1867 |
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| Monarch | Carol I |
| Preceded by | Lascăr Catargiu |
| Succeeded by | Constantin A. Crețulescu |
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In office 1870–1871 |
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| Monarch | Carol I |
| Preceded by | Manolache Costache Epureanu |
| Succeeded by | Lascăr Catargiu |
| Prince of Samos | |
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In office 1854–1859 |
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| Preceded by | Alexandros Kallimachis |
| Succeeded by | Miltiadis Aristarchis |
| Personal details | |
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August 12, 1816 Bucharest, Wallachia, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | May 7, 1897 (aged 80) Ghergani, Dâmbovița County |
| Political party | National Liberal Party |
| Profession | Diplomat |
| Religion | Romanian Orthodox |
Ion Ghica (Romanian pronunciation: [iˈon ˈɡika]; August 12, 1816 – May 7, 1897) was a Romanian revolutionary, mathematician, diplomat and politician, who was Prime Minister of Romania five times. He was a full member of the Romanian Academy and its president many times (1876-1882, 1884-1887, 1890-1893 and 1894-1895). He was the older brother and associate of Pantazi Ghica, a prolific writer and politician.
He was born in Bucharest, Wallachia, to the prominent Ghica boyar family, and was the nephew of both Grigore Alexandru Ghica (who was to become Prince of Wallachia in the 1840s and 1850s) and Ion Câmpineanu, a Carbonari-inspired radical. Ion Ghica was educated in Bucharest and in Western Europe, studying engineering and mathematics in France from 1837 to 1840.
After finishing his studies in Paris, he left for Moldavia and was involved in the failed Frăția ("Brotherhood") conspiracy of 1848, which was intended to bring about the union of Wallachia and Moldavia under one native Romanian leader, Prince Mihai Sturdza. Ion Ghica became a lecturer on mathematics at the Academy which was founded by the same Prince Sturdza in Iași (future University of Iași).
He joined the Wallachian revolutionary camp, and, in the name of the Provisional Government then established in Bucharest, went to Istanbul to approach the Ottoman Imperial government; he, Nicolae Bălcescu, and General Gheorghe Magheru were instrumental in mediating negotiations between the Transylvanian Romanian leader Avram Iancu and the Hungarian Revolutionary government of Lajos Kossuth.
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