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About Dimitrie Cantemir
Dimitrie or Demetrius Cantemir, also known by other spellings, was a Moldavian prince, statesman, and man of letters. He twice served as voivode of Moldavia. During his second term, he allied his state with Russia in a war against Moldavia's Ottoman overlords; Russia's defeat forced Cantemir's family into exile and the replacement of the native voivodes by Greek phanariots. Cantemir was also a prolific writer, variously a: philosopher, historian, composer, musicologist, linguist, ethnographer and geographer. His son, Antioch, Russia's ambassador to Great Britain and France and a friend of Montesquieu and Voltaire, would become known as "the father of Russian poetry".
Everything about Dimitrie Cantemir →- Occupation
- anthropologist, linguist, historian, philosopher
- Position held
- lord of Moldavia, lord of Moldavia
- Citizenship
- Principality of Moldavia, Russian Empire
- Born
- October 26, 1674, 1673, October 26, 1673
- Died
- August 21, 1723, 1726, September 1, 1723