# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexandru-tzigara-samurcas
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:26:22.731Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexandru-tzigara-samurcas"
name: "Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcaș"
slug: "alexandru-tzigara-samurcas"
description: "Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcaș was a Romanian art historian, ethnographer, museologist and cultural journalist, also known as local champion of art conservation, Romanian Police leader and pioneer radio broadcaster. Tzigara was a member of the Junimea literary society, holding positions at the National School of Fine Arts, the University of Bucharest and lastly the University of Cernăuți. During his youth, he was secretary to Carol I, the King of Romania. Close to the royal family, he also served as head of the Carol I Academic Foundation, where he set up a large collection of photographic plates. Tzigara achieved fame in 1906 as founder of the \"National Museum\", nucleus of the present-day Museum of the Romanian Peasant, but was also involved in arranging and preserving the Theodor Aman art fund."
tagline: "Romanian academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tzigara-Samurca%C5%9F.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1872-04-04"
deathDate: "1952-04-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.8
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.604608
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ألكسندرو تزيغارا ساموركاش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%AA%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B4"
    title: "اليكساندرو تزيجارا ساموركاش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandru_Tzigara-Samurca%C8%99"
    title: "Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcaș"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandru_Tzigara-Samurca%C8%99"
    title: "Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcaș"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandru_Tzigara-Samurca%C8%99"
    title: "Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcaș"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4721227"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump