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"A philosopher among kings, a king among philosophers"
(From the award of the Academy of Sciences of Berlin, 1714)

   King of Moldavia, one of the Romanian historical provinces, encyclopedist, member of the Academy of Berlin, historian, philosopher, geographer, folklorist, theologian, naturalist and mathematician, musician and orator, philologist and a man of letters, Dimitrie Cantemir is known to have been as a remarkable personality of his epoch among Leibnitz, Baluze, Eddison, Hamilton, Fleury, Byron and Newton.