Politician; law graduate with studies in Moscow, Petersburg and Berlin, judge at the court in Hotin; he founded schools in Bessarabia and Transylvania, supporting the Transylvanian political and cultural leaders, Octavian Goga being among them. He supported the national movement of Bessarabia also financially. He was elected honorary president of the Moldavian National Party, and after the Union he was elected Senator in a Transylvanian circumscription.