21 Facts About Ion Nistor

Ion I Nistor was a Romanian historian and politician.

Ion Nistor was a titular member of the Romanian Academy from 1915 and a professor at the universities of Cernauti and Bucharest, while serving as Minister of State for Bukovina, Minister of Public Works, Minister of Labor, and Minister of Religious Affairs and the Arts with a number of governments from 1918 to 1940.

Ion Nistor studied at the local school in Vicovu de Sus, then in Radauti, first at the elementary school and then at the German High School, getting his Matura in 1897.

Ion Nistor then studied Philosophy and Literature at the University of Czernowitz and between 1898 and 1900, he completed his military service in the Austro-Hungarian Army, serving in Polei and in Vienna.

Ion Nistor graduated from the university in 1902, after which he was named teacher of history and geography at the Suceava Classic High school.

Together with some of his friends, Ion Nistor edited a magazine titled Junimea Literara between 1904 and 1914, first published in Radauti and then in Suceava.

In 1904, Ion Nistor married Virginia Pauliuc, daughter of Gheorghe Pauliuc, a Romanian Orthodox priest from Burla; one year later, on July 5,1905, Oltea, his only child, was born.

Ion Nistor then moved to teach at the Orthodox High School, making use of the institution's library, better suited to his studies into the history of Moldavia.

Ion Nistor was elected a member of the Romanian Academy in 1915.

Ion Nistor authored an ethnographic map of Bukovina under Austrian domination, based on the census of 1910.

Ion Nistor interrupted the course in November 1917, after a group of armed Russian revolutionaries broke into the university building.

Ion Nistor was safely escorted outside by some of the Bessarabian soldiers who were part of his audience.

In February 1918, together with other Austro-Hungarian refugees, Ion Nistor departed for Ovidiopol, Cetatea Alba, and then finally reached Chisinau.

Ion Nistor stayed in the city, where he argued for the founding of a Moldavian University, and soon began lecturing on the History of the Romanians.

Ion Nistor used the data gathered from the Chisinau Archives to write the History of Bessarabia, published in 1923.

Between May 1920 and January 1922, Ion Nistor was a Senator in the Parliament of Romania.

Ion Nistor was the director of the historical magazine Codrii Cosminului, which was published between 1924 and 1939.

Ion Nistor was pensioned in the same year, and, starting 1943, he was in charge of the Library of the Romanian Academy.

Ion Nistor kept the latter office until after the establishment of the Communist regime, when the purge of anti-communists in the Academy began.

Ion Nistor's house was nationalized, and Nistor had to live in the attic of his daughter's house, which was nationalized.

Ion Nistor was freed five years and two months later.