Nicolae Titulescu
Nicolae Titulescu
He was born in Craiova as the son of a lawyer and spent his childhood in his father's domain in Tituleşti, Olt county.
After finishing high school in Craiova, he continued studying law in Paris and obtained his doctorate after presenting a paper called "La theorie des droites eventuels".
In 1905 returned to Romania as a law professor at the Iaşi University and in 1907 he moved to Bucharest. Following the 1912 elections, he became a Member of the Parliament ("deputat") on the lists of the Conservator-Democratic Party ruled by Take Ionescu, and five years later he became a member of the government of Ion I. C. Brătianu as the Finance Minister.
In 1920 he decided to retire from politics and dedicate his life to diplomacy, his first task being negotiating at the 1920 Paris Peace Conference, which resulted in the Treaty of Trianon, which made Transylvania be a part of Romania.
Starting in 1921, he was the head of Romanian diplomacy in London, having this job until 1932. Between 1920 and 1936, he was also the representative of Romania in the sessions of the Nations' Society and he was twice (in 1930 and 1931) the president of the League of Nations.