Petre P. Carp
Romanian politician (1837-1919) · Romania · On the map · Politicians · Died at 81
Petre P. Carp was a Romanian statesman, political scientist and culture critic, one of the major representatives of Romanian liberal conservatism, and twice the country's Prime Minister.
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The building once housing Junimea's printing press
Photograph of Carp, ca. 1870
Map of the Balkans in 1878, showing emancipated territories (yellow) and new borders (red) over the old ones (green)
A Constantin Jiquidi cartoon, poking fun at Carp's Era Nouă government (November 1888). In the "old era", peasants feed their masters; in Carp's "new era", the roles are politely alternated
Carp's official photograph, ca. 1900
Carp, ca. 1914
Kleptoroumania: Carol I "stealing" Southern Dobruja from Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Punch cartoon (August 6, 1913)About this person
His youth was intertwined with the activity of the Junimea club, which he co-founded with critic Titu Maiorescu as a literary society, and then helped transform it into a political club. He left behind a budding career as Junimea's polemicist and cultural journalist, joining the state bureaucracy of the United Principalities, the Romanian diplomatic corps, and ultimately electoral politics. A speaker for aristocratic sentiment and the Romanian gentry, Carp helped create the Conservative Party from the various "White" conservative clubs (1880), but also led a Junimist dissident wing against the Conservative mainstream leaders Lascăr Catargiu and Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino. He was a contributor to the Junimea platform Convorbiri Literare, and founder of the newspapers Térra (1868) and Moldova (1915).
