Mihail Kogalniceanu – a brilliant personality of the Romanian people Each nation has its famous personalities. Foe the Romanian nation such a personality is Mihail Kogalniceanu (18171891). He was an outstanding statesman and scientist M.Kogalniceanu paid great attention to history as a branch of science. He often wrote in his works that history has an universal importance, it becomes “the measure by which it can be khownif a people thrives or if it regresses”. The great scientist mentioned that history links the present to the past, that it becomes “an icon of the times”. M. Kogalniceanu pleaded for an interesting, constructive and progressive philosophy of history. During his studies in Berlin he wrote to his father that he was preparing to take his doctor's degree in philosophy. In his scientific and literary activity he often appealed to the philosophy of ancient Greece and Rome, he agreed to the ideas of German philosophers of the 18th and 19th centuries. M. Kogalniceanu's scientific, literary conceptions and political doctrine are still of great interest for us nowadays, they direct loch scientist statesman and member of Parliament how to act better and more useful in the nowadays difficult socio-political and economic situation.