Grigore Ureche

Grigore Ureche (Romanian pronunciation: [ɡriˈɡore uˈreke]; 1590–1647[1]) was a Moldavian chronicler who wrote on Moldavian history in his Letopisețul Țării Moldovei (Chronicles of the Land of Moldavia), covering the period from 1359 to 1594.

Ureche spent his childhood in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, where he studied at the Jesuit College in L'viv.

[3] After returning to the Principality of Moldavia, he held many high-ranking offices in the courts of several Moldovan Hospodars.

Ureche is the first to assert the existence of the Romanian language and its Romance character.

He also acknowledges the common Roman origin of the Romanians from Moldavia, Wallachia and Transylvania.