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About Simeon Mangiuca
- Simeon Mangiuca (September 2, 1831 – December 4 [O.S.
- November 22] 1890) was an Austro-Hungarian ethnic Romanian folklorist. Born in Bro?teni, Cara?-Severin County, in the Banat region, his father Ioachim was a Romanian Orthodox priest; his mother Calina (née Berceanu) died of tuberculosis when Simeon and his brother were young.
- Following primary school in his native village, he attended secondary school in nearby Oravi?a before going on to Szeged, Lugoj and Oradea.
- He studied law at the Royal University of Pest from 1852 to 1855.
- While there, he began learning the Romance languages, particularly Italian and Spanish.
- He subsequently went to Vršac (Vâr?e?), where he took theology from 1856 to 1858, upon his father's insistence.
- Later, his theological studies would be useful in his research on folk practices, and he also learned Serbian while in the town.
- In 1858, he was named a government lawyer in Timi?oara and a teacher of Romanian language and literature at the gymnasium in the same city.
- Also in 1858, he married Ana Miletici, the daughter of a large landowner from Oravi?a.
- As a teacher, he was intensely involved in Romanian cultural activity.
- When political conditions allowed, he pressed for the establishment of a Romanian-language newspaper in Timi?oara, believing that this was the best means of organizing a populace that had become passive following the 1848 revolution.
- In 1861, he was elected chief administrator for the Jamu Mare district by the voters of his county, and he held the post for some eight years.
- In 1868, he passed the bar examination; the following year, he left government administration and settled as a lawyer in Oravi?a.Popular with those around him, Mangiuca was a leader of the local Romanian community.
- He was friends with Atanasie Marian Marienescu, whom some claim introduced Mangiuca to folklore, although this is disputed.
- While Marienescu was an ardent collector of folklore, Mangiuca's collecting activity was limited to the songs for the dead published in two studies.
- By contrast, he was more valued as a historian, linguist and ethnologist, an exegete of folklore.
- He dedicated his free time to study and to writing.
- He regularly contributed articles to a number of Romanian publications in the empire, especially Albina (Vienna), Luminatoriul (Timi?oara) and Familia (Oradea).
- In the latter magazine, he published studies about Baba Dochia, Romanian botanical terminology and Latin-origin words specific to the Banat dialect.
- He also wrote a number of books, and the Romanian Academy elected him an honorary member in March 1890.
- He suffered from a heart condition that threw him into depression, and he died later that year.
- He donated his rich personal library to Astra.
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