Teodor V. Ștefanelli

Teodor V. Ștefanelli (born Teodor Ștefaniuc; 18 August 1849 – 23 July 1920) was an Imperial Austrian-born Romanian historian, poet, prose writer and lawyer.

Born in Siret, part of Bukovina, his father Vasile Ștefaniuc was a tradesman and merchant. After attending primary school in his native town, he went to high school in Czernowitz (Cernăuți) from 1861 to 1869, and was classmates with Mihai Eminescu during his second year. From 1869 to 1873, he studied law at the University of Vienna, which awarded him a doctorate in 1875. He worked as a magistrate and administrator in Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Suceava and Lviv; by the time of his retirement in 1910, he was an imperial adviser at the Supreme Court in Vienna. A deputy in the Diet of Bukovina for the National Romanian Party, he actively participated in the province's union with Romania in 1918. He died in Fălticeni. Ștefanelli belonged to România Jună society in Vienna, and as such was among the organizers of the festivities at Putna Monastery in 1871. In Czernowitz, was part of the Society for Romanian Culture and Literature in Bukovina, as well as Arboroasa and Societatea Academică Junimea. As a member of the Romanian School Society of Suceava, he founded a library. In 1898, he was elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy, rising to titular status in 1910.