FamousWhy
USA
Famous People Famous Regions Famous Articles Famous Software FamousWhy Web Services Famous Forum Submit Content
|

Statistics:
Visits: 39
Votes: 0
Fame Riser
          
Fame Rank
N/A


On this page

Dimitrie Cantemir Biography
Dimitrie Cantemir Videos
Dimitrie Cantemir Links
Useful Tabs
User reviews
Create a poll for Dimitrie Cantemir
Dimitrie Cantemir Questions
Post a Quote for Dimitrie Cantemir
Born on October 26
Passed Away on August 21
 

Dimitrie Cantemir Fan-Club

BECOME A FAMOUS FAN!

Dimitrie Cantemir has no Fans yet!

create pool

Famous People


Dimitrie Cantemir Questions

- Where can I get some pics of Dimitrie Cantemir?... by Hailey

Famous Tags


philosopher   professor   writer   mathematician   founder   poet   theory   theorist   science   theologian   politician   economist   advocate   knowledge   phenomenology   doctrine   principles   author   athens   sociologist   activist   idealism   critic   metaphysics   1940   tradition   sociology   scientist   education   philospher   1929   humanitas   stagira   logic   plato   1673  

All Tags

Free facebook fans, followers, likes - SocialBirth.com

[edit biography]

Dimitrie Cantemir

 Q:        
Dimitrie Cantemir Dimitrie Cantemir was born in October 26, 1673 in Siliesti (today named Dimitrie Cantemir). He was the ruler of Moldavia in 1693 and between 1710 and 1711. He was also a writer, encyclopedic man, learned man, historic, politician, philosopher, ethnographer, geographer, linguist and a musicologist.

Biography and Career :

When he was 15 years old he was taken hostage in Constantinopol as his father's pledge. After his father's death in March 1693, he was named ruler of Moldavia. The Ottoman Gate didn't confirm his reign so after two months he returned to Constantinopol where he continued his studies. After a war between the Turks and the Asians started, he traveled to Eastern Europe, arriving in Timisoara (Banat). Here he got to know the Romanian people and their linguistic unit y.

He married Casandra, Serban Cantacuzino's daughter. They ha a lot of children among which the future Russian poet, writer and diplomat- Antioh Dimitrievici Cantemir.

The Turks named Cantemir, The Ruler of Moldavia in 1710 because they trusted him. Dimitrie Cantemir signed at Lutk in Russia in April 1711 a secret alliance treaty with Peter the Great. With this treaty he wanted to release Moldavia from the Ottoman reign. After one year of reign, he joined the war between the Turks and the Russians, putting Moldavia under Russian reign. After he was defeated by the Turks at Stanilesti-Falciu, he couldn't return to Moldavia. So he emigrated in Russia and he remained here with his family. He became intimate adviser of Petru I. Here he developed a prolific scientific activity. He was given a big estate near Harcov and he was named Serenissim Prince of Russia in August 1711.

He died at his Dimitrievka farm in Kharkov in 1714 and he was buried in Russia. His relics are now at the "Trei ierarhi" Church in Iasi.

Among his writings:

- Istoria ieroglifica (The hieroglyphical history)(1703-1705);
- Hronicul vechimei a roman-moldo-vlahilor (1719 - 1722),
- Istoria Imperiului Otoman (The history of the Ottoman Empire).

Dimitrie Cantemir Lists
1673 births
1723 deaths
18th-century Latin writers
Cantemireşti family
Enlightenment philosophers
German nobility
Imperial Russian politicians
Medieval and Early Modern Romanian writers
Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
People from Vaslui County
People of the Ottoman Empire
Romanian composers
Romanian historians
Romanian linguists
Romanian orientalists
Romanian philosophers
Rulers of Moldavia
Turkologists
17th-century Romanian people
18th-century Romanian people


 

Dimitrie Cantemir Videos
Another Composition by Dimitrie Cantemir

irrelevant
-1
broken


Tags: 1673, moldavia, philosopher, ruler, constantinopol

[edit tags]

Submit your website/blog
  • No related sites found. If you are the webmaster of a website, blog or forum that contains related information to this page, we invite you to submit it for inclusion here.
  • Please add a link to our website before submitting your link(s).
  • Your link will be validated by our editors in about 48 hours.
  • Add your site here

Category: Philosophers  - ( Philosophers Archive)

Date Added: 31 December '10


Add a link to this page on any related website, blog or forum using this code :