Ioan Oteteleșanu
Ioan Oteteleșanu (also Iancu; 1795–1876) was a Wallachian, later Romanian businessman and politician.
The son of sluger Constantin Oteteleșanu,[1] he entered the magistracy in 1831.[2] He was then director of salt mines from 1838 to 1841, amassing a large sum. From 1851 to 1853, during the reign of Barbu Dimitrie Știrbei, he was Audit Minister. In early 1866, he briefly served as Finance Minister under Nicolae Crețulescu.[1]
Oteteleșanu owned an estate and villa at Măgurele, near Bucharest. In his last will, written the year of his death, he left his entire fortune for the establishment of a girls’ school and orphanage. After the death of his widow Elena in 1888, there being no descendants, the estate management came under the care of Ioan Kalinderu.[1][2]
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- 1795 births
- 1876 deaths
- Romanian businesspeople
- Romanian philanthropists
- Businesspeople in the salt industry
- Government ministers of the Principality of Wallachia
- Romanian Ministers of Finance
- 19th-century philanthropists