# Scarlat Turnavitu

> Scarlat or Scarlatŭ Turnavitu was a Wallachian, later Romanian, schoolteacher, politician, and jurist. He was born into a prosperous family with origins in the high-ranking boyardom, either in his father's village of Budișteni, Muscel County, or in nearby Pitești, Argeș County. During his youth, Wallachia and neighboring Moldavia were Romanian-inhabited tributary states of the Ottoman Empire, with a set of conservative laws imposed in the 1820s, as Regulamentul Organic. Turnavitu and two of his three brothers, Ștefan and Demostene, represented the liberal and nationalist opposition, whose principles they assimilated during their early education in Golești and Bucharest. They endured as lifelong associates of the Golescu family, whose younger members guided their political ascent. During the 1830s and early '40s, Scarlat traveled the country as a reformer, taking charge of primary schools and pioneering teacher education in Giurgiu, Buzău, and finally Craiova.

*Romanian schoolteacher and politician (died 1876)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Politician
- **Category:** Politicians
- **Born:** 1816
- **Died:** 1876-11-30
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Scarlat or Scarlatŭ Turnavitu was a Wallachian, later Romanian, schoolteacher, politician, and jurist. He was born into a prosperous family with origins in the high-ranking boyardom, either in his father's village of Budișteni, Muscel County, or in nearby Pitești, Argeș County. During his youth, Wallachia and neighboring Moldavia were Romanian-inhabited tributary states of the Ottoman Empire, with a set of conservative laws imposed in the 1820s, as Regulamentul Organic. Turnavitu and two of his three brothers, Ștefan and Demostene, represented the liberal and nationalist opposition, whose principles they assimilated during their early education in Golești and Bucharest. They endured as lifelong associates of the Golescu family, whose younger members guided their political ascent. During the 1830s and early '40s, Scarlat traveled the country as a reformer, taking charge of primary schools and pioneering teacher education in Giurgiu, Buzău, and finally Craiova.

## Fame
- **Fame score:** 26.2

## Sources
- [Scarlat Turnavitu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlat_Turnavitu)
- [Scarlat Turnavitu](https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlat_Turnavitu)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123250305)

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