Diplomatul Nicolae Ţimiraş – un strănepot al lui Ion Creangă în slujba României
The diplomat Nicolae Ţimiraş – a great-grandson of Ion Creangă in the service of Romania

Summary/Abstract: Nicolae Ţimiraş (1912-1996) was a Romanian lawyer, diplomat, professor and writer. He was admitted to the Romanian diplomatic service in 1936. In the first years of his diplomatic career, he was a member of the Romanian delegation at three official meetings of the Little Entente. Ţimiraş worked in the Romanian Legations in Budapest, Rome and the Vatican. At the latter, he held the position of chargé d’affairs a.i. between March 7, 1946, and April 15, 1947. He was also acting consul general of the General Consulate of Romania in Tirana between May 1 and August 15, 1941. As a result of the communists coming to power in Romania, Nicolae Ţimiraş was dismissed from diplomacy in 1947. He went into exile, first to Canada, after which he settled in the United States of America. Here he was an active member of the Romanian anti-communist exile, being a founding member, vice-president and president of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences. From exile, Nicolae Ţimiraş spoke against the totalitarian regime in Romania, initiated a series of cultural projects with the aim of promoting Romanian values among foreigners, strongly supported the organization of a World Congress of Romanians with the aim of giving the Romanian exile a unique voice. Throughout his entire life, Nicolae Ţimiraş worked, constantly and tirelessly, for the promotion of his native country, being truly a man in the service of Romania.

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