Paul Gore

Paul Gore (27 July 1875, in Chişinău – 8 December 1927) was a Bessarabian politician and historian, he wrote prose and publicist materials, he was the honorary member (1919) of the Romanian Academy, he was the president of the National Moldavian Party. "Very cultured man, he owned a vast library and he knew the history of Bessarabia in detail" . Career Paul Gore graduated from the high school in Mykolaiv, the Kherson region (1895), and then the Law School of the Saint Petersburg's University (1901). In 1905 he became a peace judge in Orgeyevsky Uyezd and in the same year he became the chairman of the editorial board of the Moldovan Society. In 1909 he became the sanitary director and director of the National Museum of Chișinău, where he have worked by 1918. In 1910 he was the elected MP from the nobility side and the vice-president of the Gubernian's Zemstvoe (zemstvo = form of local self-government). And being at this posture, in 1912, Paul Gore have asked publicly from the floor the introduction of the Romanian language in schools. During the First World War he was the director general of the Red Cross of Bessarabia. In 1917 he became president of the newly created Moldovan school commission; on March 20 – the president of the National Moldavian Party, and on May 16 – the president of the Moldovan Cultural Society. During this period, he substituted the deputy commissioner of Bessarabia, C. A. Mimi. He was the first resident of Chișinău to hoist the flag of Romania to his residence. On June 7, 1919 he was elected honorary member of the Romanian Academy. He was the author of the works Plebiscite in Bessarabia (1919), Population of Bessarabia by nationalities according to Russian official sources (in collaboration with P. Cazacu) (1920), Self-administration and Zemstvo (1920), Bessarabia (1926).