Ferdinand I

1. University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine,
Bucharest
Ferdinand I of Romania
Coordinating teacher: Student:
Frumuselu Mihai Papa Marius
Group: 8311

2. Ferdinand I of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (August 12/24, 1865,
Sigmaringen - July 20, 1927, Peles Castle, Sinaia) was the
second king of Romania, from October 10, 1914 until his death.
Ferdinand was the second son of Prince Leopold of
Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and of Infanta Antonia of Portugal,
the daughter of King Ferdinand II of Portugal and Queen Maria
II of Ferdinand Viktor Albert Meinrad von Hohenzollern-
Sigmaringen . His family was part of the Catholic branch of the
Prussian royal family of Hohenzollern.

3. Ferdinand spent his childhood and adolescence at the family residence in
Sigmaringen, Germany. In 1885 he graduated from the Kassel School of
Officers, being appointed as Second Lieutenant in the 1st Regiment Guard
Regiment of Prussia. He then studied at the University of Leipzig and the Upper
School of Political and Economic Sciences in Tübingen, which he graduated in
1889.
From 1889 he became the Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Romania following the
abandonment of his father and older brother, Wilhelm, to the succession rights
to the royal crown of Romania. From this moment he settled in Romania, where
he continued his military career, having also a number of honorary orders,
reaching his rank as general army corps.

4. Married on December 29, 1892, in Sigmaringen, Princess Maria Alexandra Victoria
of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, daughter of Duke
Albert of Edinburgh and great duke Maria Alexandrovna Romanov, the only
daughter of Tsar Alexander II of Russia.
Ferdinand became King of the Kingdom of Romania on October 10, 1914, under the
name of Ferdinand I, following the death of his uncle, King Carol I. He ruled
Romania during the First World War, choosing to fight against the Entente
against the Central Powers. had the effect of excluding him from the Royal
House of Hohenzolern by the head of this house, Emperor Wilhelm II of
Germany.

5. At the end of the war, Romania ended the process of achieving the
national-unitary state by uniting Bessarabia, Bukovina and Transylvania
with the Old Kingdom. On October 15, 1922, in Alba Iulia, Ferdinand
crowned himself as the first king of Great Romania.
In the years following the First World War, Romania has undergone a
number of profound transformations, especially through the
implementation of the agrarian reform and the universal vote.
In 1925, the "Dynastic Crisis" erupted, caused by the abandonment of
Prince Carol to his succession rights at the Crown of Romania, which led
Ferdinand to exclude Carol from the Royal House of Romania and to
appoint him as royal heir to his son, Prince Mihai.

6. Ferdinand died in Sinaia on July 20, 1927, after a galloping colon
cancer. He was buried at the Curtea de Arges Monastery. His
successor to the throne was Prince Mihai, who became the
second king of Great Romania under the name of Mihai I, but
who, because of the minority, will rule under regency.
By virtue of his positions in the state, he was an honorary member
of the Romanian Academy in 1890, and between 1914 and 1927
he was the honorary president of the same institution.

7. BIBLIOGRAPHY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_I_of_R
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