About Nicolae Gr. Racoviță
Lived 1835 – 1894 (aged 58). Nicolae Gr. Racoviță was a Romanian politician, jurist, editor and publisher.
Prince Nicolae Gr. Racoviță (July 17, 1835 – ) was a Wallachian-born Romanian politician. He is an aristocrat and member of the House of Racoviță.
Born in Craiova, his parents were the high postelnic Prince Grigore Racoviță and his wife Cleopatra Brăiloiu, daughter of high aga Nicolae Brăiloiu. From December 1870 to March 1871, he was Minister of Religious Affairs and Public Instruction in the cabinet of Ion Ghica. From 1876 to 1880, he was president of the Dolj County Council, and was mayor of his native city from 1888 to 1890.
Racoviță was an editor at Alexandru Odobescu's Bucharest-based magazine Revista istorică in 1862. In 1867, 1868 and 1870, he edited the weekly Nepărtinitorul, a poetic and literary journal. He was friends with the Junimea group, and was a talented pianist who composed sonatas.
He was married to Despina Socolescu, the niece of Theodor Aman. Racoviță died in Rome and was buried in Craiova.
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Romanian politician
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Nicolae Gr. Racoviță was born on 17 July 1835 in Craiova.
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Nicolae Gr. Racoviță died on 3 March 1894 in Rome.
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Nicolae Gr. Racoviță was a politician, jurist, editor and publisher.
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Nicolae Gr. Racoviță was Romanian.
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