16
March 1927 – Priest, poet and translator MORARIU CONSTANTIN passed away
in Cernăuți – photo – (born on 5 May 1854, in Mitocu Dragomirnei,
county of Suceava). Studies at the Secondary School in Sucevița (1866 –
1874) and at the Faculty of Theology of Cernăuți (1874 – 1878). Priest
in Toporăuți (1878 – 1885), Cernăuți (1886 – 1896) and Pătrăuți (1896 –
1917), metropolitan counsellor in Cernăuți (1918 – 1926); militant for
the rights of the Romanians in Bucovina. He collaborated with many
Romanian newspapers of the time: “Familia” (Oradea city), “Convorbiri
literare” and “Viața Românească” (Iași city), “Glasul Bucovinei” and
“Candela” in Cernăuți city, “Neamul Românesc” in Bucharest etc.; he
edited the “Deșteptarea” newspaper in Cernăuți city all by himself, in
which he published poems, historical, literary, pedagogical and
economical articles, brochures with historical, theological and
missionary character.
Works: History of the Real Orthodox Schools
of Cernăuți City (1889); Kulturhistorische und etnographische Skizzen
uber die Rumanen der Bukovine (2 vol., 1889-1891); Parts of the History
of the Romanians in Bucovina (2 volumes, 1889 – 1894).
