12 Facts About Constantin Angelescu

Constantin Angelescu was born in 1869 in the family of Dumitru Angelescu, a merchant from Craiova, and of Theodore, maiden name Geblescu, whose family was related to the Craiovesti family.

Constantin Angelescu came back to the country, worked in surgery department of Brancovenesc Hospital, then, at the Filantropia Hospital, becoming professor and director of the University of Surgery Clinic.

Dr Constantin Angelescu started his political career within the National Liberal Party.

In 1901, Constantin Angelescu became an MP and senator, and later, the minister of public works and minister of public guidance.

In 1917, during the evacuation of the government and king to Iasi, Constantin Angelescu lived for a short time in Odesa, and then returned to the country.

Constantin Angelescu contributed to the adoption of the Law on the state primary education and of the normal-primary education of June 26,1924, to the uniformity of the education system in Romania.

Bratianu improved, and Dr Constantin Angelescu was next to him in the moments after the assassination attempt in 1904 and in the last hours of his life in 1927, when he closely supervised the medical-surgical treatment he had given.

Constantin Angelescu eventually accepted to be the minister of national education in the cabinet headed by Tatarescu.

Constantin Angelescu is one of the members of the Crown Council chaired by Carol II who voted for the cession of Bessarabia and northern Bucovina to the Soviet Union following the ultimatum given to Romania on June 26,1940.

Constantin Angelescu was a founding member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences.

Constantin Angelescu had three daughters: Elizabeth, Ioana, and Elena, and three sons: Grigore, Alexander, and Constantine.

Constantin Angelescu's son, Constantin C Angelescu Monteoru, was a professor of constitutional law, dean of the law faculty at the University of Iasi.