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{{Short description|First President of the Moldovan Parliament}}
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{{Infobox Officeholder
| name                = Alexandru Moșanu
| image               = Alexandru Moşanu 2018 stamp of Moldova.jpg
| office              = 1st [[President of the Moldovan Parliament]]
| term_start          = 27 August 1991
| term_end            = 2 February 1993
| predecessor2        = 
| successor2          = 
| birth_date          = {{Birth date|df=yes|1932|07|19}}
| birth_place         = [[Braniște, Rîșcani|Braniște]], [[Kingdom of Romania]]
| death_date          = {{death date and age|df=yes|2017|12|7|1932|07|19}}
| death_place         = [[Chișinău]], [[Moldova]]
| party               = [[Social Liberal Party (Moldova)]]
| otherparty          = [[Popular Front of Moldova]]
| children            = 
| alma_mater          = [[Moldova State University]]
| profession          = [[Historian]]
| nickname            = 
| office2             = Member of the [[Moldovan Parliament]]
| president2          = 
| primeminister2      = 
| termend2            = 25 February 2001
| termstart2          = 17 April 1990
| citizenship         = {{MLD}}<br>{{ROU}}
| office3             = [[Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian SSR|Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of SSR Moldova]]
| termstart3          = 3 September 1990
| termend3            = 27 August 1991
| predecessor3        = [[Mircea Snegur]]
| president3          = [[Mircea Snegur]]
| primeminister3      = [[Mircea Druc]]
| deputy2             = 
| deputy              = [[Ion Hadârcă]]
| president           = [[Mircea Snegur]]
| primeminister       = [[Valeriu Muravschi]]<br/>[[Andrei Sangheli]]
| successor           = [[Petru Lucinschi]]
| caption             = 2018 stamp
| constituency2       = [[Strășeni]]
| parliamentarygroup2 = [[Popular Front of Moldova|Popular Front]]
| honorific_suffix    = [[Order of the Republic (Moldova)|OR]]
}}

'''Alexandru Moșanu''' (19 July 1932 – 7 December 2017) was a [[Moldova]]n politician, historian and professor.

==Biography==
Alexandru Moșanu was born in [[Braniște, Rîșcani|Braniște]], [[Kingdom of Romania]] (now in [[Rîșcani District]], [[Moldova]]). He was the first [[speaker of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova]] between 1990 and 1993. He was also one of the co-authors of [[Moldova's 1991 Declaration of Independence]].

Moșanu was the author of over 100 works on the history of Moldova and [[Romania]]. His most important contribution as an author is a study on Romanian historiography published in [[Moscow]] in 1988. In 1993, he became a foreign honorary [[list of members of the Romanian Academy|member of the Romanian Academy]]. Between 2002 and 2005 Moșanu was the Honorary Chairman of the [[Social Liberal Party (Moldova)|Social Liberal Party]].

He was a leader of the [[Democratic Forum of Romanians in Moldova]].

==Awards==
* [[Romanian Cultural Institute]] Prize

== Works ==
* Mișcări sociale și politice din România în epoca modernă
* Istoriografia românească
* Unitatea poporului român și Mișcarea de Renaștere și de Eliberare Națională a românilor basarabeni
* Alexandru Moșanu, ''Destin Românesc'', [[Chișinău]], 1994;
* Alexandru Moșanu, ''Un pilon de granit al Rezistenţei basarabene'' în ''Literatura și Arta'', 17 iulie 2003.

==References==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.iatp.md/istorie/dezbateri/interviuri/interviu_mosanu.pdf Interviu cu Alexandru Moşanu]{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* [http://www.rri.ro/index.php?lmb=4&art=1889 Yalta - Rubbing Salt in Romania’s Historical Wounds]
* [http://www.azi.md/news?ID=34685 Ştire despre retragerea lui A.Moşanu din funcţia de preşedinte de onoare al PSL] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927175617/http://www.azi.md/news?ID=34685 |date=27 September 2007 }}
* [https://www.ziarulnational.md/ultima-ora-primul-presedinte-al-parlamentului-r-moldova-alexandru-mosanu-s-a-stins-din-viata/]

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[[Category:Moldova State University alumni]]
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