Iuliu Moisil

Iuliu Moisil (May 19, 1859–January 28, 1947) was an Austrian Empire-born Romanian schoolteacher and non-fiction writer.

Biography Born in Năsăud, in the Transylvania region, his father was the priest Grigore Moisil, while the historian Constantin Moisil was his nephew. A Greek-Catholic, he attended primary school in his native town, followed by the local high school. He then enrolled in the Vienna Polytechnic, where he studied industrial chemistry and natural sciences, and where he was an active member of the România Jună society. He returned home in 1885, ventured to Austrian-ruled Bukovina, In 1894, he was transferred to Tudor Vladimirescu High School in Târgu Jiu. Named principal the following year, he supervised construction of a permanent school building. At Târgu Jiu in 1900, he founded Oltenia's first school for traditional Romanian ceramic pottery.

In 1931, he returned to Năsăud; together with Virgil Șotropa and Iulian Marțian, he helped establish the Military Frontier Museum, the town branch of the Romanian Academy library and the local chapter of the National Archives of Romania. Until the end of his life, he headed the Năsăud chapter of ASTRA. During his later years, he edited a good part of his writings on prominent local figures, publishing them in two volumes, in 1937 and 1939. Among the journals to which he contributed were Buletinul Societății Române de Geografie, Convorbiri Literare, Arhivele Olteniei, Arhiva Someșană and Vatra.