Hurmuzachi
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Hurmuzachi is a noble Romanian
Romanians
The Romanians are an ethnic group native to Romania, who speak Romanian; they are the majority inhabitants of Romania....

 family from Bukovina
Bukovina
Bukovina is a historical region on the northern slopes of the northeastern Carpathian Mountains and the adjoining plains.-Name:The name Bukovina came into official use in 1775 with the region's annexation from the Principality of Moldavia to the possessions of the Habsburg Monarchy, which became...

 of Greek
Greeks
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 origin. During the 17th-19th centuries they were associated with the Cernauca estate in Bukovina.

The most prominent members were the Hurmuzachi brothers
Hurmuzachi brothers
The Hurmuzachi brothers, Alexandru , Constantin , Eudoxiu , Gheorghe , and Nicolae , were members of an old Hurmuzachi family of Romanian nobles in Austrian Bukovina of Greek origin, with an estate in Cernăuca...

:
  • Constantin (1811–1869),
  • Eudoxiu
    Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi
    Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi was a Romanian historian, politician and patriot.-Origins :Hurmuzachi was born into a family of old aristocratic lineage , as the second son of Doxache Hurmuzachi, at the family estate in Cernăuca, Austria , located in the historic region of Bukovina...

     (1812–1878),
  • Gheorghe (1817–1882),
  • Alexandru (1823–1871),
  • Nicolae (1826–1909).


Their father was Doxaki (Doxachi, Doxache, Doxaki) Hurmuzaki (d. April 1857), who eventually re-acquired Cernauca after the documents of the ownership of the estate by the family had been lost and built a new boier palace and church and planted park there. Doxaki married Iuliana (Ilinka, Olena) Murguleţ (d.1858), daughter of a Romanian boier (stolnic
Stolnic
Stolnic was a boier rank and the position at the court in the history of Romania: in Moldavia and Wallachia. The title approximately corresponds to seneschal and is borrowed from the Slavic title stolnik a person in charge of the royal table.The title mare stolnic means "great stolnic", or...

), and they had 12 children, of whom 7 survived: the five brothers and two sisters, Eufrozina and Eliza.

Doxaki was son of medelnicer
Historical Romanian ranks and titles
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Constantin Hurmuzachi and Roksana (d. August 12, 1818) from Moldavia
Moldavia
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.

See also

  • Hurmuzachi Psalter (Psaltirea Hurmuzachi), an early (16th century) manuscript in the Romanian language
    Romanian language
    Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...

  • Anatol Hurmuzaki (b. 1937), academician
    Academician
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    , governmental functionary of Moldova
    Moldova
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    (chief of the department of mechanization, state technical control and labour protection, Ministry of Agriculture of Moldova & other positions)
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