Atanasie Marian Marienescu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Romanian judge (1830-1915)
Date of Birth: 20-Mar-1830
Place of Birth: Lipova, Arad County, Romania
Date of Death: 06-Jan-1915
Profession: judge, diarist
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Atanasie Marian Marienescu
- Atanasie Marian Marienescu (March 21 [O.S.
- March 9] 1830–January 20 [O.S.
- January 7] 1915) was an Austro-Hungarian ethnic Romanian folklorist, ethnographer and judge. Born in Lipova, Arad County, in the Banat region, his father Ion Marian was a trader, while his mother Persida (née ?andor) came from Nadlac.
- After completing the Romanian-language primary school in his native town in 1842, he enrolled in the Minorite gymnasium of Arad.
- He finished six grades there, interrupting his studies for a year due to the 1848 revolution.
- He took grade seven in Timi?oara and the final year in Pest, prior to entering the law faculty of the Royal University of Pest.
- While in the city, he frequently visited Emanoil Gojdu.
- He studied there for three years before transferring to the University of Vienna, from which he graduated in 1856.
- He received a doctorate in 1861 and settled in Lugoj, working as deputy notary.
- The following year, he became an assessor, which marked the beginning of his career in the magistracy; he worked in the town until 1869.
- Active within the Romanian Orthodox Church, he served the Arad Diocese in a lay capacity.In 1865, he married Ana, one of eleven children born to Ioan Brote of Ra?inari, Sibiu County; her brother was the politician Eugen Brote.
- Following his work in Lugoj, he became an assessor at Oravi?a, where he befriended Simeon Mangiuca, and transferred to Timi?oara in 1876.
- In 1880, he was appointed to the Curia Regia in Budapest, and became a full member in 1885.
- He then moved to the Curia Regia in Oradea, serving until his retirement in 1900.
- From that point until his death, he lived in Sibiu.
- He is buried next to his wife in the Dumbrava Sibiului cemetery.
- The couple had a daughter and a son.Aside from law, Marienescu's interests lay in literature, ethnography, history and especially folklore.
- He made his published debut in 1848, with a poem that appeared in Pest's Amicul Poporului.
- Over the ensuing years, Marienescu contributed to numerous publications, mainly from Transylvania: Foaia pentru minte, anima ?i literatura, Gazeta de Transilvania, Familia, Telegraful Român, Aurora româna, Albina, Almanahul Societa?ii de Lectura "Petru Maior" (Budapest), Amicul ?coalei, Analele Academiei Române, Aurora româna, Calendarul diecezan, Columna lui Traian, Concordia, Dâmbovi?a, Educatorul, Ethnographia, Ethnologische Mitteilungen aus Ungarn, Federa?iunea, Foi?oara Telegrafului român, Gazeta poporului, Luminatorul, Na?ionalul, Opinca, Romänische Revue and Transilvania.While a student in Pest, he diligently researched archives and libraries for historic and topographic data related to the origin of the Romanians.
- His first folklore collections, the 1859 Poesie poporala.
- Balade culese ?i corese and Colinde, were published with funds donated by Andrei Mocioni and received an enthusiastic endorsement from Iacob Mure?ianu.
- The former marked the first Transylvanian collection of ballads, while the latter was the first anthology of Christmas carols in all the Romanian lands.
- Poesia popurala.
- Balade culese ?i corese appeared in 1867, followed by Doi fe?i cotofe?i sau doi copii cu parul de aur (1871), Seran ?i Zoran (1872) and Steaua Magilor sau Cântece la Na?terea Domnului Isus Cristos (1875).
- His novella Petru Rare?, principele Moldovei appeared in 1862.
- He was elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy in 1877, rising to titular member in 1881; his reception speech, on Petru Maior, was hailed by V.
- A.
- Urechia.
- In 1884, Sarbatorile ?i datinile romane vechi, the first volume of a planned monumental Cultul pagân ?i cre?tin appeared; he was unable to complete the remainder of the treatise.
- A diary of his survives covering two periods: his student days from 1853 to 1858, and two months in the summer of 1875.
- He was described by Ovidiu Bârlea as a "notorious polymath" who "delved into nearly every branch of the humanities: literature, history, ethnography, folklore, political economy" and became "Transylvania's first important folklorist".
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