Teofil Ioncu

Teofil Ioncu
Teofil Ioncu
Member of the Moldovan Parliament
	In office; 1917–1918
Personal details
Born	22 July 1885; Olișcani
Died	16 March 1954 (aged 68); Iași

Teofil Ioncu (22 July 1885, in Olișcani – 16 March 1954, in Iași) was a Bessarabian and Romanian politician, member of Sfatul Țării.^[1]

Biography

Teofil Ioncu studied at the Moscow Higher Institute and the Higher Business School of the University of Leipzig. From 1913-1914 he was one of the permanent contributors to the magazine Cuvânt Moldovenesc.^[1]

Political activity

On 3 April 1917 he took part in the establishment of the National Moldavian Party. 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 to support the interests of Romanians in Bessarabia.

He served as Member of the Moldovan Parliament (1917–1918).

Awards

Order of Ferdinand I, in the grade Commander;
Order of the Star of Romania, in the grade Officer.^[2]

Gallery

Moldovan stamp, 1998

Bibliography

Gheorghe E. Cojocaru, Sfatul Țării: itinerar, Civitas, Chişinău, 1998, ISBN 9975-936-20-2
Mihai Taşcă, Sfatul Țării şi actualele autorităţi locale, "Timpul de dimineaţă", no. 114 (849), 27 June 2008 (page 16)

External links

Notes

^ ^a ^b 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.
^ Alexandru Chiriac, op. cit., p. 77.