Anton Crihan

"Crihan" redirects here. For the village in Bacău County, see Măgura, Bacău.

Anton Crihan
File:Anton Crihan (1893-1993).jpg
Member of Sfatul Ţării
In office 1917–1918
Personal details
Born	(1893-07-10)July 10, 1893 Sîngerei
Died	St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Resting place	Chişinău
Political party	National Peasants' Party
Spouse(s)	Olivia Lula
Children	Dumitru Crihan ( 1924-1999)
Alma mater	Odessa University
Religion	Eastern Orthodoxy

Anton Crihan (July 10, 1893, Sîngerei- January 9, 1993, St. Louis, Mo) was a Bessarabian politician.

Biography

Anton Crihan served as Member of Sfatul Ţării (1917-1918), the Parliament of Romania, and the Government of Romania. After the Soviet occupation of Romania, Crihan fled on foot to Yugoslavia and arrived in the United States in 1949.

Works

• Capitalul străin în Rusia (1915)
• Chestiunea agrară în Basarabia (1917)

Honours

• Order Ferdinand I
• Steaua României
• A street in the center of Chisinau, the capital of the Republic of Moldova has been named after Anton Crihan. (See strada Anton Crihan).

Gallery

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  Moldovan stamp, 1998

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  Sfatul Ţării Palace, December 10, 1918

Bibliography

• Gheorghe E. Cojocaru, Sfatul ţării: itinerar, Civitas, Chişinău, 1998, ISBN 9975-936-20-2
• Mihai Taşcă, Sfatul Ţării şi actualele autorităţi locale, "Timpul de dimineaţă", no. 114 (849), June 27, 2008 (page 16)
• Eremia, Anatol (2001) (în română). Unitatea patrimoniului onomastic românesc. Toponimie. Antroponimie (ed. ediţie jubiliară). Chişinău: Centrul Naţional de Terminologie, ed. „Iulian”. pp. p. 57. ISBN 9975-922-45-7.
• Alexandru Chiriac. Membrii Sfatului Ţării. 1917-1918. Dicţionar, Editura Fundaţiei Culturale Române, Bucureşti, 2001.

External links

• Anton Crihan Dead; Moldova Exile, 99, Escaped Soviet Rule
• Arhiva pentru Sfatul Tarii
• Deputaţii Sfatului Ţării şi Lavrenti Beria
• Biblio Polis - Vol. 25 (2008) Nr. 1 (Serie nouă)
• 2013 Postage stamp issued by the Republic of Moldova