Simeon Mangiuca

Simeon Mangiuca (2 September 1831 – ) was an Austro-Hungarian ethnic Romanian folklorist.

Born in Broșteni, Caraș-Severin County, in the Banat region, his father Ioachim was a Romanian Orthodox priest; Following primary school in his native village, In 1858, he was named a government lawyer in Timișoara and a teacher of Romanian language and literature at the gymnasium in the same city. Also in 1858, he married Ana Miletici, the daughter of a large landowner from Oravița. As a teacher, he was intensely involved in Romanian cultural activity. When political conditions allowed, he pressed for the establishment of a Romanian-language newspaper in Timișoara, believing that this was the best means of organizing a populace that had become passive following the 1848 revolution. In 1861, he was elected chief administrator for the Jamu Mare district by the voters of his county, and he held the post for some eight years. In 1868, he passed the bar examination; the following year, he left government administration and settled as a lawyer in Oravița. He dedicated his free time to study and to writing. He regularly contributed articles to a number of Romanian publications in the empire, especially Albina (Vienna), Luminătoriul (Timișoara) and Familia (Oradea). He donated his rich personal library to Astra.