Ioan C. Filitti


Ioan Constantin Filitti was a Romanian historian, diplomat and conservative theorist, best remembered for his contribution to social history, legal history, genealogy and heraldry. A member of the Conservative Party and an assistant of its senior leader Titu Maiorescu, he had aristocratic origins and an elitist perspective. Among his diverse contributions, several focus on 19thcentury modernization under the Regulamentul Organic regime, during which Romania was ruled upon by the Russian Empire. As a historian, Filitti is noted for his perfectionism, and for constantly revising his own works.

The mother, Elena, was born into the Ghica family. Her father, Mihail Ghica, was a staff officer of the Royal Army, who had been married for a while to writer Elena Vcrescu. Thorough his mothers other relatives, Ioan also descended from the eponymous boyar line of Slatina .

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