Titu Maiorescu

Titu Maiorescu
Titu Maiorescu in 1882
Prime Minister of Romania
In office
28 March 1912 – 31 December 1913
MonarchCarol I
Preceded byPetre P. Carp
Succeeded byIon I. C. Brătianu
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
29 December 1910 – 4 January 1914
Preceded byAlexandru Djuvara
Succeeded byEmanoil Porumbaru
Personal details
Born(1840-02-15)15 February 1840
Craiova, Wallachia
Died18 June 1917(1917-06-18) (aged 77)
Bucharest, Romania
NationalityRomanian
Political partyConservative Party

Titu Liviu Maiorescu (Romanian: [ˈtitu majoˈresku]; 15 February 1840 – 18 June 1917) was a Romanian literary critic and politician, founder of the Junimea Society. As a literary critic, he was instrumental in the development of Romanian culture in the second half of the 19th century.

A member of the Conservative Party, he was Foreign Minister between 1910 and 1914 and Prime Minister of Romania from 1912 to 1913. He represented Romania at the Peace Conference in Bucharest that ended the Second Balkan War. In politics as in culture he favoured Germany over France. He opposed Romania's entry in World War I against Germany, but he nevertheless refused to collaborate with the German army after it had occupied Bucharest.