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Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu

Died in 1907

Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu was born Tadeu Hâjdeu on 26 February 1838 in Cristinești, in northern Bessarabia, then Russian, the son of the scholar Alexandru Hâjdeu. He studied law in Kharkiv and served as an officer in the Russian army, then crossed into Moldavia and settled in 1858 in Iași, as a secondary-school teacher and university librarian. A historian and philologist, he directed the State Archives, entered the Romanian Academy in 1877 and taught at the University of Bucharest. He died in Câmpina in 1907.

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