Constantin Coandă (4 March 1857 – 30 September 1932) was a

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n soldier and politician.

Biography

Constantin Coandă was born in Craiova. He reached the rank of general in the

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, and later became a mathematics professor at the National School of Bridges and Roads in

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. Among his seven children was

Henri Coandă Henri Marie Coandă (; 7 June 1886 – 25 November 1972)''Flight'' 1973 was a Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer, and builder of an experimental aircraft, the Coandă-1910 described by Coandă in the mid-1950s as the world's first jet, a co ...

, the discoverer of the Coandă effect. During

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, for a short time (24 October – 29 November 1918), he was the

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and the Foreign Affairs Minister. He participated in the signing of the

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between the

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and

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. On 8 December 1920, during his term as

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(representing

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's People's Party), he was badly wounded by a bomb set up by the

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and anarchist

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Military functions

* Platoon commander in the 1st Artillery Regiment (1877 – 1883) * Positions in military education at the Bucharest School of Artillery, Engineering and Naval Officers and at the Superior School of War * Command and staff functions * Commander of the 2nd Artillery Regiment * Commander of the 5th Army Corps * Secretary General of the Ministry of War * Commander of the Bucharest Citadel * Military attaché in

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and

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* Director of the Artillery Department of the Ministry of War * Head of department in the General Staff * Inspector General of Artillery.

Other positions

* Teacher at the Bucharest Bridge and Roads School * Delegate to the International Conference in The Hague * Military and diplomatic attaché near the Quarter of Tsar Nicholas II (1916 – 1918) * Minister of Industry (March 20 – July 14, 1926) * Minister Secretary of State (August 10, 1926 – June 4, 1927) .

Writings

* ''Artillery Course'' (1884 – 1885) * ''Projectiles and Missiles'' (1884).

Death

Constantin Coandă died on 30 September 1932, aged 75, in

References

1857 births 1932 deaths People from Craiova People of the Principality of Wallachia People's Party (interwar Romania) politicians Prime Ministers of Romania Romanian Ministers of Foreign Affairs Romanian Ministers of Industry and Commerce Presidents of the Senate of Romania Members of the Senate of Romania Romanian Land Forces generals Romanian Army World War I generals Romanian people of World War I Politehnica University of Bucharest faculty {{Romania-politician-stub