DIN ISTORIA ARHEOLOGIEI BUCOVINEI: O SCRISOARE INEDITĂ DE LA ARHEOLOGUL DIONISIE OLINESCU CĂTRE PREOTUL CONSTANTIN MORARIU
From the History of the Archaeology in Bukovina: An Unpublished Letter from the Archaeologist Dionisie Olinescu to the Priest Constantin Morariu

Summary/Abstract: In the Austrian Bukovina there were two private societies, with an archaeological-historical-museistic profile: the Museum Society of Siret, founded by Captain Josef von Gutter (1870–1886) and the Romanian Archaeological Society from Chernivtsi, founded and led by the amateur archaeologist Dionisie Olinescu (1886–1893). Olinescuʼs society took over an important part of the collections of the Museum Society of Siret, completed them and contributed directly to the foundation of the collections of the National Museum of Bukovina (Bukowiner Landes-Museum) in Chernivtsi (1893). The following article captures a small fragment from the life of Dionisie Olinescu, the most important Romanian archaeologist of the Austrian Bukovina, forced by unfavorable circumstances to leave the province in the year of 1893 and to take refuge in the Romanian Kingdom, where he had a quite difficult career trajectory. The letter in question contains some novel elements regarding Dionisie Olinescuʼs biography and family and his activity after 1893. The letter brings, at the same time, a modest contribution to the historiography of the archaeology of Bukovina.

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