Anton Crihan

"Crihan" redirects here. For the village in Bacău County, see Măgura, Bacău.

Anton Crihan


Member of Sfatul Ţării
In office 1917–1918
Personal details
Born	(1893-07-10)July 10, 1893 Sîngerei
Died	January 9, 1993(1993-01-09) (aged 99) St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Resting place	Chişinău
Political party	National Peasants' Party
Spouse(s)	Olivia Lula
Children	Dumitru Crihan ( 1924-1999)
Alma mater	Odessa University
Religion	Eastern Orthodoxy

Anton Crihan (July 10, 1893, Sîngerei- January 9, 1993, St. Louis, Mo) was a Bessarabian politician.

Biography

Anton Crihan served as Member of Sfatul Ţării (1917-1918), the Parliament of Romania, and the Government of Romania. After World War I and the Communist revolution in Russia, Dr. Crihan, was among the handful of campaigners who succeeded in annexing most of Bessarabia to Romania. He became politically active in Romania, which was then governed by a constitutional monarchy. Trained as an economist, he served on the Central Committee of the National Peasant Party, , was elected to several terms in Parliament and was appointed Agriculture Minister. After the Soviet occupation of Romania, Crihan fled on foot to Yugoslavia and arrived in the United States in 1949. After the Soviet takeover, Dr. Crihan went into hiding and then fled on foot. He made his way across Europe spending time in Paris to complete a PhD in Economics at the Sorbonne. He finally arrived in the United States in 1949, where he delivered lectures and wrote articles and books championing the reunification of Moldavia and Romania. Moldavia, now known as Moldova, gained independence when the Soviet Union disintegrated in late 1991.

Works

Capitalul străin în Rusia (1915)
Chestiunea agrară în Basarabia (1917)

Honours

Order Ferdinand I
Steaua României
A street in the center of Chisinau, the capital of the Republic of Moldova has been named after Anton Crihan. (See strada Anton Crihan).

Gallery

Moldovan stamp, 1998
Sfatul Ţării Palace, December 10, 1918

Bibliography

Gheorghe E. Cojocaru, Sfatul ţării: itinerar, Civitas, Chişinău, 1998, ISBN 9975-936-20-2
Mihai Taşcă, Sfatul Ţării şi actualele autorităţi locale, "Timpul de dimineaţă", no. 114 (849), June 27, 2008 (page 16)
Eremia, Anatol (2001) (în română). Unitatea patrimoniului onomastic românesc. Toponimie. Antroponimie (ed. ediţie jubiliară). Chişinău: Centrul Naţional de Terminologie, ed. „Iulian”. pp. p. 57. ISBN 9975-922-45-7.
Alexandru Chiriac. Membrii Sfatului Ţării. 1917-1918. Dicţionar, Editura Fundaţiei Culturale Române, Bucureşti, 2001.

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Notes

Anti-communism in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina (1917-1991)

Political entities	Bessarabia Bukovina Moldavian Democratic Republic Moldavian ASSR Moldavian SSR

Events	Soviet occupation Soviet deportations Romania during World War II Fântâna Albă massacre Tatarka common graves Operation North 1989 Moldova civil unrest

Anti-Soviet organizations	Arcaşii lui Ştefan Black Army Democratic Agrarian Party Freedom Party Democratic Union of Freedom Sabia Dreptăţii "Vasile Lupu" High School Group Vocea Basarabiei

Activists and dissidents	Alexandru Baltagă Filimon Bodiu Olimpiada Bodiu Gheorghe Briceag Ion Codreanu Gheorghe Ghimpu Pan Halippa Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya Ion Moraru Vasile Odobescu Ion Pelivan Vadim Pirogan Ion Vasilenco Victor Zâmbrea

Persecutors	NKVD KGB Securitate Ivan Bodiul Pyotr Grigoryevich Borodin

Organisations, places, events	Literatura şi Arta Popular Front of Moldova Stephen the Great Monument Marea Adunare Naţionalǎ Glasul Deşteptarea Memorial to Victims of Stalinist Repression Monument to the Victims of the Soviet Occupation Muzeul Memoriei Neamului

1988-1991, people	Nicolae Costin Nicolae Dabija Mircea Druc Gheorghe Ghimpu Ion Hadîrcǎ Dumitru Matcovschi

The political diaspora	Anton Crihan Paul Goma Nicolae Lupan Grigore Singurel

See also Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova

Moldavian Democratic Republic

Topics	National Moldavian Party Moldovan Progressive Party Sfatul Țării Sfatul Țării election, 1917 Sfatul Țării Palace Pantelimon Erhan Cabinet Daniel Ciugureanu Cabinet Petru Cazacu Cabinet Union of Bessarabia with Romania

Directors	Bosie-Codreanu Catelli Cazacu Ciobanu Ciugureanu Cojocaru Cristi Erhan Grinfeld Ioncu Pântea Pelivan Savenco

Sfatul Țării members	Alexandri Alistar Almendinger Balmez Baltagă T. Bârcă T. Bârcă V. Bârcă Bazhbeuk-Melikov Bivol Bocșan Bodescu Bogos Bosie-Codreanu Botnarciuc Brinici Buciușcan Budișteanu Budnicenko Buiuc Bujniță Buruiană Buzdugan Caraiman Cărăuș G. Cazacliu I. Cazacliu V. Cazacliu Ceornega Ciorăscu Cernăuțeanu Cernov Checerul Cuș Chiriac Chiorescu Chumachenko Cijevschi Ciornei Cocârlă Codreanu Corobcean Costin Cotoros Covali Creangă Crihan Cristi Culcev Culeva Curdinovschi Diaconovici Donico-Iordăchescu Dragomir Dron Dudchievicz Dumitrașcu Epure Erhan Gafencu Găină Galețchi Ghenzul Gherman Grekulov Grinfeld Groapă Grosu Halippa Harbuz Harea I. Herța T. Herța Ignatiuc Inculeț Ioncu Iurcu Kenigschatz Kiriloff Krivorukov Krupenski Landau Lașcu Lichtmann Lineff Loesch Maculețchi Maldor Mămăligă Mândrescu Manițchi Marchitan Mare Mârza Minciună Misirkov Moldovan Al. Moraru An. Moraru Munteanu Nagorniak Năstase Neaga Nichitiuc Novakov Osmolovski Osoianu Palii Panțâr Pântea Pascăluță Pelivan Picior-Mare Poliatenciuk Ponomarev Popa Prahnițchi Rudiev Rugină Sârbu Savenco Savciuc Sberea Scobioală Secară Silistaru Sinicliu Slutski Soltuz Spinei Stanevici Starenki Stavrii Steinberg Stere Sucevan N. Suruceanu T. Suruceanu Țanțu Tcepciu Tsyganko Tudor Tudose Al. Țurcan L. Ţurcan Turcuman Uncu Valuță Vizitiu Zubac

Other officials	Cătărău Cujbă Schmidt Slonim

Authority control	VIAF: 28624721 ISNI: 0000 0001 1023 3199

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