Nicolae Bosie-Codreanu (21 December 1885 – 1969) was a

Bessarabia Bessarabia () is a historical region in Eastern Europe, bounded by the Dniester river on the east and the Prut river on the west. About two thirds of Bessarabia lies within modern-day Moldova, with the Budjak region covering the southern coa ...

n politician who voted for the

Union of Bessarabia with Romania The union of Bessarabia with Romania was proclaimed on by Sfatul Țării, the legislative body of the Moldavian Democratic Republic. This state had the same borders of the region of Bessarabia, which was annexed by the Russian Empire following t ...

on 27 March 1918.

Biography

Bosie-Codreanu was born in 1885 in Noua Suliță, then in the

Bessarabia Governorate The Bessarabia Governorate was a province (''guberniya'') of the Russian Empire, with its administrative centre in Kishinev (Chișinău). It consisted of an area of and a population of 1,935,412 inhabitants. The Bessarabia Governorate bordered t ...

of the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughl ...

, now the city of

Novoselytsia Novoselytsia (, ; , ; ; ) is a city in Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast (oblast, province) of Ukraine. It stands at the northern tip of Bessarabia region, on its border with Bukovina. It hosts the administra ...

Chernivtsi Oblast Chernivtsi Oblast (), also referred to as Chernivechchyna (), is an oblast (province) in western Ukraine, consisting of the northern parts of the historical regions of Bukovina and Bessarabia. It has an international border with Romania and Moldo ...

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

. An engineer by formation, he served as Member of

Sfatul Țării ''Sfatul Țării'' ("Council of the Country"; ) was a council of political, public, cultural, and professional organizations in the guberniya, Governorate of Bessarabia in Russian Empire, Tsarist Russia. This became a legislative body which e ...

from 1917 to 1918. After , he served in the

Pantelimon Erhan Cabinet Pantelimon Erhan Cabinet was the Cabinet of Moldova (7 / 20 December 1917 - 13 / 26 January 1918). It was the first Cabinet of Moldova, cabinet of the Moldavian Democratic Republic. The government fell after the occupation of the Republic by the ...

as Director General for Railroads (). In the

interwar period In the history of the 20th century, the interwar period, also known as the interbellum (), lasted from 11 November 1918 to 1 September 1939 (20 years, 9 months, 21 days) – from the end of World War I (WWI) to the beginning of World War II ( ...

he was a member of the

Bessarabian Peasants' Party The Bessarabian Peasants' Party (, PȚB or PȚ-Bas; also ''Partidul Țărănesc Basarabean'', ''Partidul Țărănist Basarabean'') or Moldavian National Democratic Party (''Partidul Național-Democrat Moldovenesc'') was an agrarian political party ...

and worked as an engineer, director in the Ministry of Construction in

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița (river), Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.76 million residents within a greater Buc ...

Gallery

Image:Stamp of Moldova 227.gif, Moldovan stamp, 1998

Bibliography

Ion Constantin Ion Constantin (born 23 August 1929) was a Romanian equestrian. He competed in two events at the 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics (, ), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad (, ) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952, ...

Ion Negrei __NOTOC__ Ion Negrei (born 12 March 1958) is a Moldovan politician. Career He was the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of social issues in First Vlad Filat Cabinet. He was replaced by Mihai Moldovanu in the Second Filat Cabinet. Negrei becam ...

, ''Pantelimon Halippa – tribun al Basrabiei'', București: Biblioteca Bucureștilor, 2009. *

Gheorghe E. Cojocaru Gheorghe E. Cojocaru (born 8 February 1963) is a historian from the Republic of Moldova. Biography Gheorghe E. Cojocaru was born on 8 February 1963. He graduated from Moldova State University in 1986 and got a PhD from University of Buchare ...

, ''Sfatul Țării: itinerar'', Civitas, Chişinău, 1998, *

Mihail Tașcă Mihai Taşcă is a historian and jurist from the Republic of Moldova. Biography Mihai Taşcă is a doctor of law, senior researcher, Institute of History, State and Law of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova. Mihai Taşcă is the secretary of th ...

, ''Sfatul Țării și actualele autorități locale'', "

Timpul de dimineață ''Timpul de dimineață'' ( Romanian for "The Morning Times") or, in short, ''Timpul'' ("The Time"), is a Moldovan newspaper founded in 2001 by Constantin Tănase. Overview The director of ''Timpul de dimineață'' is Constantin Tănase. Lau ...

", no. 114 (849), 27 June 2008 (page 16)

External links

Arhiva pentru Sfatul Țării

Deputații Sfatului Țării și Lavrenti Beria

Notes

1885 births 1969 deaths People from Novoselytsia Moldovan MPs 1917–1918 Transport ministers of Moldova 20th-century Romanian engineers Romanian people of Moldovan descent {{Romania-politician-stub