'''Alexandru Sturdza''' (1791-1854) was a Russian publicist and diplomat of Romanian origin. He was a member of the Sturdza_family, born in the Moldavian region of Bessarabia and educated in Germany. After entering the Russian diplomatic service, he wrote ''Betrachtungen über die Lehre und den Geist der orthodoxen Kirche'' (Leipzig, 1817). His ''Mémoire sur l'état actuel de l'Allemagne'', written at the request of Tsar Alexander I during the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, was an attack on the German universities, repeated in ''Coup d'oeil sur les universites de l'Allemagne'' (Aachen, 1818). His other important works are ''La Grèce'' in 1821 (Leipzig, 1822) and ''Oeuvres posthumes religieuses, historiques, philosophiques et litteraires'' (5 vols., Paris, 1858-1861). ==References== *{{1911}} Sturdza, Alexandru Sturdza, Alexandru Sturdza, Alexandru Sturdza, Alexandru Sturdza, Alexandru