5 May 1854 – Priest CONSTANTIN MORARIU, poet and translator, was
born at Mitocu Dragomirnei. Studies at the Secondary School in Sucevița
(1866 – 1874) and at the Faculty of Theology of Cernăuți (1874 – 1878).
Priest in Toporăuți (1878 – 1886), Cernăuți (1866-1896) and Pătrăuți
(1896 – 1917), metropolitan counsellor in Cernăuți (1918 – 1926);
militant for the Romanians’ rights in Bucovina. He collaborated with
many Romanian newspapers of the time: Familia (Oradea), Convorbiri
literare and Viața Românească (Iași), Glasul Bucovinei and Candela of
Cernăuți, Neamul Românesc of Bucharest; he drafted the newspaper
Deșteptarea of Cernăuți all by himself (1893 – 1896), 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 (1889); Kulturhistorische und etnographische Skizzen ilber die
Rumănen der Bukovine (2 volumes 1889 – 1891); Parts of the Romanians’
history in Bucovina (2 volumes, 1893 – 1891); A few words on the usage
of the Romanian language (1896); History of the world… (3 volumes, 1897 –
1901); Christian virtue (3 volumes, 1902 – 1909); Translations from
German poets (1890), from Goethe (Herman and Dorothea, 1894), from
Schiller and Goethe (1923) etc. He translated from the Homilies of Saint
John Chrysostom to the Pauline Epistles (1888, 1889, 1892), together
with Prof. Ștefan Saghin. He passed away on 16 March 1927, in Cernăuți.
