Sturdza family explained

The House of Sturdza, Sturza or Stourdza is the name of an old Moldavian noble family of Phanariote Greek origin. Their origins can be traced back to the 1540s and whose members played important political role in the history of Moldavia, Russia and later Romania.

Origin

The Sturdza were a family of Phanariote Greek origin and devoted much energy to the restoration of Greek independence.^{[1] [2]}

Political family

The Sturdza family, a Moldavian princely family, has been long and intimately associated with the government first of Moldavia and afterwards of Romania. Its members belong to two main branches, which trace their descent from either Ioan Sturdza or Alexandru Sturdza, the sons of Chiriac Sturdza, who lived in the 17th century, and may be regarded as the founder of the family. Members active in government:

• Ioan Sturdza (1762 – 1842), prince of Moldavia from 1822 to 1828
• Mihail Sturdza (1795 – 1884), Prince of Moldavia from 1834 to 1849, modernizer of Moldavia
• Alexandru Sturdza, also known as Alexandre Stourdza (1791–1854), Russian publicist and diplomatist
• Grigore Sturdza (1821 – 1901), son of Mihail, army general and politician
• Dimitrie Sturdza (1833 – 1914), Romanian statesman
• Dimitrie C. Sturdza-Scheianu (1839 – 1920), Romanian historian
• (1869 – 1939), Romanian Army, colonel, German spy
• Mihail R. Sturdza (1886 – 1980), Romanian minister of Foreign Affairs
• (1934 – 2020), Romanian historian
• Șerban-Dimitrie Sturdza (born 1967), Romanian politician

Others

• Roxandra Sturdza (1786 – 1844), philanthropist and writer
• Lucia Sturdza-Bulandra (1873 – 1961), actress and theater director^[3]
• Marina Sturdza (1944 – 2017), former Romanian Princess and humanitarian activist
• Constantin Sturdza (born 1989), tennis player
• Dimitri Sturdza (born 1938), tennis player

References

3. Otu, Petre, Georgescu, Maria: Durchleuchtung eines Verrats. Der Fall des Oberst Alexandru D. Sturdza. Lektor Verlag. Hainburg. 2022.

Notes and References

1. Book: Bakhmetyeva, Tatyana V. . Mother of the Church: Sofia Svechina, the Salon, and the Politics of Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Russia and France . 2017 . Cornell University Press . 978-1-60909-198-9 . 120 . en . of Greek origin, the Sturdza family devoted much energy to the restoration of Greek independence, hoping to enlist the support of the [Russian] emperor to their cause.
2. Book: Lok, Matthijs . Cosmopolitan Conservatisms: Countering Revolution in Transnational Networks, Ideas and Movements (c. 1700‒1930) . Pestel . Friedemann . Reboul . Juliette . 2021 . BRILL . 978-90-04-44673-1 . 208 . en . Roxandra Sturdza was of Greek Orthodox extraction from a Greek princely family of the Ottoman Empire, in exile and in Russian service..
3. Book: Manea, Aureliu. Imaginary Performances in Shakespeare. Routledge. 2020. 978-1-000-07414-7. London and New York. en.