Ana Ipătescu

Ana Ipătescu (1805–1875) was a Romanian revolutionary who participated in the Wallachian Revolution of 1848.

Ana was born in Bucharest, in the Olarilor slum, in the family of a merchant, Atanasie Ghiulerasă, from the incipient bourgeoisie at the end of the Phanariot period. In 1828 she married the tenant Ivancea Dimitrie, from whom she divorced in 1831 (1931), in the same yearher father died. Due to this situation she had an arranged marriage withNicolae Ipătescu. Thanks to her husband, a clerk in the Treasury Department, she attended meetings of the Brotherhood secret society, where she met some of the leaders who would enter the revolutionary government after the revolution broke out on June 9, 1848. She participated directly in the revolution and led the pro-revolutionary crowds, and was arrested on June 19, 1848 because of a counter-revolutionary conspiracy.

She died in 1875. Although she had wanted to be buried at Pasărea Monastery, her grave could not be identified until now.