Author(s): Tiberiu Ciobanu / Language(s): Romanian
Issue: 01-03/2020
Ioachim Miloia was born on 3 May 1897 at Ferendia, Timis county.
He attended the village school until 1908 when his family moved to Caransebeş.
Here he continued his studies until 1919. He graduated from the Theological
and Pedagogic School in 1919. He attended the University of Bucharest where
he was student in the third year at the Faculty of Belles – Lettres (1919-1920).
At the same time he took fine – arts courses at the Academy of Bucharest. At
the end of 1920, Ioachim Miloia went to study in Italy. He graduated from the
Fine Arts Institute of Rome. He took his degree with a religious work called
‘Iisus înviind faţa văduvei din Naine (Ioachim Miloia, Scrisori din Italia,
Eurostampa Press, Timişoara, 2004, p.7). He continued his studies in Rome until
1927. In this period he was awarded a Ph.D degree in the History of Arts with
his dissertation Curentul goticului internaţional şi fraţii Lorenzo şi Iacopo
Salimbenii din San Severino (1924) and in Belles - Lettres with the thesis Legenda
crucii în literatura şi arta medievală (1927) both works being written in Italian.
In the autumn of 1927 he taught at the Pedagogic School in Timişoara as a
substitute teacher, then from 28 January 1928 and up to his death, on 25 March
1940, he was the manager of the Museum of the Banat. From 1937 be was also
the manager of the regional direction of the State Archives of Timişoara. He
carried on a prodigious activity in different directions. A specialist in museography
and archivist he was also the chairman of the Commission of the Historical
Monuments – the branch of the Banat; chairman of the cultural and artistic
section of the Regionala of the Banat of Astra; professor at the Fine-Arts Academy
of Timişoara; professor at the Polytechnic School of Timişoara; the chief of the
Cultural Service of Timişoara, a church restorer and painter, editor of the
publications ‘Banatul’ and ‘Revista Institutului Social Banat-Crişana’; editor
of the ‘Analele Banatului’ (1928-1931). His main works are: Biserica din Lipova,
in ’Analele Banatului’ I, 1928; Începuturile artei româneşti în Banat in ’Analele
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Banatului’, issue1, 1930; Biserica medievală din Căvăran, in ’Analele Banatului’,
issue 4, 1930; Mănăstirea Săraca, centru de cultura şi artă bănăţeană, in
’Analele Banatului’, issues 2-4, 1931; Cercetări arheologice în Banatul de Sud,
in ’Analele Banatului’, issue 4, 1930 in colaboration with (C. Diaconovici);
Timişoara văzută de Francisc Griselini la 1774, in ’Analele Banatului’, issue
1, 1928; Colonişti armeni în Banat, in ’Analele Banatului’, issue 2, 1929; Familia
Brediceanu în Banat, in ’Analele Banatului’, issue 4, 1930; Portul naţional, in
’Luceafărul’, September-October, 1937. The exceptional activity of Miloia was
praised not only in the Banat, but also nationwide. In the obituary published by
Nicolae Iorga in ‘Neamul românesc’ (3 April 1940) it is stated that: ’Among the
front rankers of the new generation of the Banat I’m looking in vain for a scholar
who combined more knowledge with more efficiency in the work done in the
brisk trot of a short life than the hard-working intellectual who was- how painfully
it is to say - Ioachim Miloia. He is gone at the age of 43 before the time of his
reward.’ Unfortunately only 40 years later the personality of Ioachim Miloia
became an object of consideration again. In 1971 in Figuri de arhivişti (Bucharest
1971) Tiberiu Moţ published a study Ioachim Miloia regarding his archivist
activity. Next year, in ‘Orizont’ magazine (2 November) it was published an
article written by Aurel Turcuş: Ioachim Miloia, un erudit muzeolog bănăţean.
It marked the beginning of a productive publishing activity dedicated to Ioachim
Miloia. In 1997 Mirton Press released the volume Un erudit cărturar Ioachim
Miloia (1897-1940) under the auspicies of the Direction of Timiş county of the
National Archives of Romania. The volume contains: Cuvânt înainte by prof.
Corneliu Mihai Lungu; Omagiu postumby the Right Reverend Nicolae Corneanu,
the Metropolitan bishop of the Banat; Viaţa şi activitatea (lui Ioachim Miloia)
by Mircea Miloia. Eight studies of Aurel Turcuş dedicated to some aspects
regarding the life and work of Ioachim Miloia; Dr. Nicolae Săcară – Ioachim
Miloia - cercetător şi protector al monumentelor istorice and Gheorghe Mudura
– Ioachim Miloia, întemeietor al Arhivelor Banatului. In 2002, Eurostampa Press
printed Ion Traia’s graduation paper called Ioachim Miloia - o personalitate
marcantă a culturii bănăţene.
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