Born: 30 December 1792, Romania
Died: 1879
Country most active: Romania
Also known as: Zinca or Zoița Golescu
The following is excerpted from “400 Outstanding Women of the World and the Costumology of Their Time” by Minna Moscherosch Schmidt, published in 1933.
The wife of Constantin Golescu, high court official of the Roumanian Principality of Wallachia. She belonged to a family noted for its patriotism, her husband, as well as her four sons, having played an important role in Roumanian affairs.
In 1848 she used all her means to help the political movement of that time, sacrificing her wealth to further the triumph of the political idea of her country. Her home in Bucharest was the meeting place of cabinet ministers and members of parliament and other high persons in the political life of the capital. In 1866 , when she was seventy-six years old, she received the visit of the young Prince Carol of Hohenzollern, just chosen to rule over the United Roumanian Principalities. She lived long enough to be a witness to the Roumanian Independence War of 1877.