Damaschin Bojincă (1802–1869) was an Imperial Austrian-born

Moldavia Moldavia ( ro, Moldova, or , literally "The Country of Moldavia"; in Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, Romanian Cyrillic: or ; chu, Землѧ Молдавскаѧ; el, Ἡγεμονία τῆς Μολδαβίας) is a historical region and for ...

n writer and jurist. Born into an ethnic Romanian family in Gârliște,

Caraș-Severin County Caraș-Severin () is a county ( județ) of Romania on the border with Serbia. The majority of its territory lies within the historical region of Banat, with a few northeastern villages considered part of Transylvania. The county seat is Reșița ...

, he attended primary school in

Oravița Oravița (; hu, Oravicabánya; german: Orawitz; cs, Oravice; sh-Latn-Cyrl, Oravica, separator=/, Оравица) is a town in the Banat region of Romania, in Caraș-Severin County, with a population of 11,382 in 2011. Its theater is a fully fu ...

and

Vršac Vršac ( sr-cyr, Вршац, ; hu, Versec; ro, Vârșeț) is a city and the administrative centre of the South Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. As of 2011, the city urban area had a population of 35,701, while ...

(''Vârșeț''), finishing high school in

Timișoara ), City of Roses ( ro, Orașul florilor), City of Parks ( ro, Orașul parcurilor) , image_map = Timisoara jud Timis.svg , map_caption = Location in Timiș County , pushpin_map = Romania#Europe , pushpin_ ...

. Entering the Vršac theological seminary, he soon left the institution, preferring to study philosophy and later law in Timișoara, Oradea and

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...

. After receiving his law degree in 1824 and taking up work as a lawyer, he also began a cultural activity, working as an editor at ''Biblioteca românească'' in Buda under Zaharia Carcalechi. His preferred subjects were philology and history, in the latter field publishing ''Istoria românilor'' ("The History of the Romanians"), ''Istorie a lumii pe scurt'' ("Short History of the World"), and studies of rulers such as

Dimitrie Cantemir Dimitrie or Demetrius Cantemir (, russian: Дмитрий Кантемир; 26 October 1673 – 21 August 1723), also known by other spellings, was a Romanian prince, statesman, and man of letters, regarded as one of the most significant e ...

Radu Șerban Radu Șerban (? – 23 March 1620) was a Wallachian nobleman who reigned as the principality's ''voivode'' during two periods from 1602 to 1610 and during 1611. A supposed descendant of Neagoe Basarab, he attained high office during the reign of ...

and

Michael the Brave Michael the Brave ( ro, Mihai Viteazul or ; 1558 – 9 August 1601), born as Mihai Pătrașcu, was the Prince of Wallachia (as Michael II, 1593 – 1601), Prince of Moldavia (1600) and ''de facto'' ruler of Transylvania (1599 – 1600). ...

. The work to which he devoted the most time, that he considered his most important and that essentially capped his career in historiography was the 1832-1833 ''Anticile românilor'' ("Antiquities of the Romanians"). Moving to Moldavia in 1833, he remained there for the rest of his life, working as a lawyer, as rector of Iași's Socola Monastery seminary and as a teacher at

Academia Mihăileană Academia Mihăileană was an institution of higher learning based in Iași, Moldavia, and active in the first part of the 19th century. Like other Eastern European institutions of its kind, it was both a high school and a higher learning institute ...

. In 1860–1861, during the

United Principalities The United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia ( ro, Principatele Unite ale Moldovei și Țării Românești), commonly called United Principalities, was the personal union of the Principality of Moldavia and the Principality of Wallachia, ...

period, he served as Justice Minister at Iași.Ionel Maftei, ''Personalități ieșene'', p.69. Comitetul de cultură și educație socialistă al județului Iași, 1972

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bojinca, Damaschin 1802 births 1869 deaths People from Caraș-Severin County Romanians in Hungary Romanian jurists 19th-century Romanian historians Romanian schoolteachers Government ministers of the Principality of Moldavia Members of the Romanian Orthodox Church