Teofil Ioncu (22 July 1885, in

Olișcani Olișcani is a village in Șoldănești District, Moldova Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a Landlocked country, landlocked country in Eastern Europe, with an area of and population of 2.42 million. Moldova is bordered by Ro ...

– 16 March 1954, in

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) was a

Bessarabia Bessarabia () is a historical region in Eastern Europe, bounded by the Dniester river on the east and the Prut river on the west. About two thirds of Bessarabia lies within modern-day Moldova, with the Budjak region covering the southern coa ...

n and

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n politician, member of

Sfatul Țării ''Sfatul Țării'' ("Council of the Country"; ) was a council of political, public, cultural, and professional organizations in the guberniya, Governorate of Bessarabia in Russian Empire, Tsarist Russia. This became a legislative body which e ...

.Alexandru Chiriac, ''Mic dicționar al membrilor Sfatului Țării din Chișinău, (21 noiembrie 1917 — 27 noiembrie 1918)'', în „Patrimoniu. Revistă de cultură istorică”, Chișinău, nr.4/1991, p. 75.

Biography

Teofil Ioncu studied at the Moscow Higher Institute and the Higher Business School of the

University of Leipzig Leipzig University (), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 December 1409 by Frederick I, Electo ...

. From 1913-1914 he was one of the permanent contributors to the magazine ''Cuvânt Moldovenesc''.

Political activity

On 3 April 1917 he took part in the establishment of the

National Moldavian Party The National Moldavian Party was a political party in Bessarabia. History Prior to 1917, Bessarabian intelligentsia was divided between noblemen, conservatives, democrats, and socialists. Vasile Stroescu, a rich but very modest filantrop boya ...

. On 20 May 1917 he was elected president of the first Student Congress, which has as topic of discussion the election of the National Moldavian Party. In the summer of that year he was sent as a voting delegate by NMP from Chișinău near the

Verkhovna Rada The Verkhovna Rada ( ; VR), officially the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, is the unicameralism, unicameral parliament of Ukraine. It consists of 450 Deputy (legislator), deputies presided over by a speaker. The Verkhovna Rada meets in the Verkhovn ...

to support the interests of Romanians in Bessarabia. He served as Member of the

Moldovan Parliament The parliament of the Republic of Moldova () is the supreme representative body of the Republic of Moldova, the only state legislative authority, being a unicameral structure composed of 101 elected MPs on lists, for a period or legislature of ...

(1917–1918).

Awards

* Order of Ferdinand I, in the grade Commander; *

Order of the Star of Romania The Order of the Star of Romania (Romanian: ''Ordinul Steaua României'') is Romania's highest civil Order and second highest State decoration after the Order of Michael the Brave. It is the oldest Order of Romania. It is awarded by the Preside ...

, in the grade Officer.Alexandru Chiriac, ''op. cit.'', p. 77.

Gallery

Image:Stamp of Moldova 227.gif, Moldovan stamp, 1998

Bibliography

* Gheorghe E. Cojocaru, ''Sfatul Țării: itinerar'', Civitas, Chişinău, 1998, *Mihai Taşcă, ''Sfatul Țării şi actualele autorităţi locale'', "

Timpul de dimineaţă ''Timpul'' (Romanian language, Romanian for "The Time") is a literary magazine published in Romania. Originally a political newspaper, it was the official platform of the Conservative Party (Romania, 1880-1918), Conservative Party between 1876 an ...

", no. 114 (849), 27 June 2008 (page 16)

External links

Arhiva pentru Sfatul Tarii

Deputaţii Sfatului Ţării şi Lavrenti Beria

Notes

Romanian people of Moldovan descent 1885 births 1954 deaths People from Șoldănești District Moldovan MPs 1917–1918 Expatriates from the Russian Empire in Germany {{Romania-politician-stub