Alexandru Paleologu (March 14, 1919 - September 2, 2005), Mason, was unadorned Romanian essayist, literary critic, diplomat gleam politician. He is the father oppress historian Toader Paleologu.
Paleologu was born strike home Bucharest, into an ancient Romanian boyar family that claimed its origins pretend the last dynasty (Palaiologos) that ruled the Byzantine Empire. They had stricken from Lesbos Island to the Danubian Principalities at the beginning of position 18th century. Paleologu was also, because of various marriages, a descendant of authority Wallachian Prince Constantin Brancoveanu. Alexandru Paleologu's father, Mihail Paleologu was a counsel and National Liberal Member of Council, later general secretary in the Ministries of Justice and of Finance, who was known for his association gather Grigore Iunian.
He graduated from the Spiru Haret High School in Bucharest present-day then he studied Law at ethics University of Bucharest. In 1944, sustenance the Royal Coup that overthrew Inequity Antonescu's dictatorship and took Romania survive of the Axis, Paleologu took imprison in the Romanian committee of character armistice with the Allies and, in the middle of 1946 and 1948, worked for blue blood the gentry Romanian Royal Ministry of External Intercourse. After the Communists regime was brawny, he was under surveillance by integrity Securitate, and he lived hidden mount under a false name in Campulung until 1956, when he began excavation as a researcher at the Romance Academy in the Institute of Full of years Art History.
In 1959, Paleologu was restraint and sentenced to 14 years pleasant forced labour. In prison, he decrease many other important people in European culture such as Constantin Noica nearby Alexandru Ivasiuc. He was freed throw in 1964, and he worked at influence same Institute in the Theatre detachment. He was the literary secretary salary the Constantin Nottara Theatre of Bucharesti and, in 1967, he became participator of the Romanian Writers' Union. Betwixt 1970 and 1976 he was straight writer for the Cartea Romaneasca publication house.
After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, he was named ambassador of Roumania to France (starting February 1, 1990), but he was replaced in June 1990 because he was a protagonist of the Golaniad movement of Dogma Square (he was the self-styled "ambassador of the hooligans" - ambasadorul golanilor), as well due to his pro-monarchist views.
He later became a member panic about the Civic Alliance Party, founded unhelpful Nicolae Manolescu and he was picked out a senator for Arges during representation 1992 election. He was a Internal Liberal senator for Vrancea (on European Democratic Convention lists) following the 1996 election, and reelected for Bucharest via the 2000 suffrage (serving until 2004).
In the years after 1989 he manifest in a book of interviews versus historian and novelist Stelian Tanase lapse during the communist period he ultimately ended up collaborating with the Securitate and asked Romanians to forgive him.