Iuliu Moisil

Iuliu Moisil (May 19, 1859–January 28, 1947) was an Imperial Austrian-born Romanian schoolteacher and non-fiction writer.

Born in Năsăud, in the Transylvania region, his father was the priest Grigore Moisil, while the historian Constantin Moisil was his nephew. A Greek-Catholic, he attended primary school in his native town, followed by the local high school. He then enrolled in the Vienna Polytechnic, where he studied industrial chemistry and natural sciences, and where he was an active member of the România Jună society. He returned home in 1885, ventured to Austrian-ruled Bukovina, and in 1886 became a physics teacher at Radu Greceanu High School in Slatina, in the Romanian Old Kingdom. In 1894, he was transferred to Tudor Vladimirescu High School in Târgu Jiu. Named principal the following year, he supervised construction of a permanent school building. He founded Amicul tinerimii magazine in 1896, leading it until 1899 and later resuming publication at Bucharest; founded Cerbul community bank in 1897 and served as its president; and helped found the Gorj museum in 1900. At Târgu Jiu in 1900, he founded Oltenia's first school for traditional Romanian ceramic pottery.

In 1906, Moisil moved to the national capital Bucharest, where he helped prepare that year's general exposition. From 1906 to 1910, he worked as secretary of the Ethnographic and Folk Art Museum. He then became librarian of the Pedagogic Museum in 1910, and director in 1921. A naturalized Romanian citizen from 1911, he maintained ties with Romanians in Transylvania, heading the Oltenia chapter of the Cultural League for the Unity of All Romanians from 1892. He supported the province's union with Romania, which took place in 1918.

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