Alexandru Leca Morariu (July 25, 1888–December 15, 1963) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian philologist, linguist, literary critic and historian, ethnologist, folklorist and musicologist.

He returned to Cernăuți after Operation Barbarossa, but the reimposition of Soviet rule in 1944 led him to a self-imposed isolation in Râmnicu Vâlcea, where he died.

[2] Morariu was interested in linguistics, philology, ethnology, dialectology, literary history and criticism, folklore, memoirs and musicology.

He promoted the idea of a national literature with the same aesthetic principles developed by critic Garabet Ibrăileanu, and highlighted the picturesque aspect of the Romanian language.

In 1928, he won the Romanian Academy’s Prize for the works “Războiul Troadei” după Codicele C. Popovici, Institutorul Creangă and Drumuri moldovene.

A great supporter of Romanian culture in Bukovina, he made sacrifices in order to ensure the prosperity of the societies he led.