Dimitrie C. Sturdza-Scheianu

Born in Iași into the aristocratic Sturdza family, his parents hired private foreign tutors for his education.

Sturdza thus learned French, German, Latin, Ancient Greek and Old Church Slavonic, then the liturgical language of Romanian Orthodoxy.

[1] A book collector, Sturdza spent many years buying up old texts in Romanian Cyrillic.

Together with Dimitrie Sturdza and Ghenadie Petrescu, he edited an eleven-volume set of old Romanian texts, published between 1888 and 1909.

[2] In late 1891, Sturdza became Justice Minister in the government of Lascăr Catargiu, intending to correct societal injustices, particularly in rural areas.