Alexandru V. Perietzianu-Buzău şi studiile de genealogie modernă
Alexandru V. Perietzianu-Buzau and the Modern Genealogy studies

Summary/Abstract: Alexandru V. Perietzianu-Buzău (1911-1995), lawyer and landowner before the coming of the communist regime, contributed substantially to the development of Romanian genealogical research. The descendant of a Muntenian boyar family documented from the seventeenth century, a family which he studied with great passion, he obtained a doctorate in Law in Paris, and later practised in his native Bucharest. After the Second World War, he was forced to work as a duty-roster clerk, but from the 1970s to the 1990s he was a member of the Commission on Heraldry, Genealogy, and Sigillography attached to the „Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History. At the meetings of the Commission, he presented numerous interesting papers concerning the genealogies of boyar and merchant families, both Romanian and foreign – in particular those of certain families of foreign origin who settled in Wallachia. His research was always based above all on archive documents, and he made use in the first place of his own rich family archive. The appendix contains two letters sent from Canada after the Revolution of December 1989 by Alexandru V. Perietzianu-Buzău, who was visiting his two sons there, to Mihai Sorin Rădulescu (born 1966), at the time a young historian and emerging genealogist, who considered Perietzianu-Buzău to be one of his principal masters in the field of genealogical study.

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