Teofil Ioncu Explained

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]

Bibliography

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

External links

• Arhiva pentru Sfatul Tarii
• Deputaţii Sfatului Ţării şi Lavrenti Beria

Notes and References

1. 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.
2. Alexandru Chiriac, op. cit., p. 77.