Ianovici was one of the figures of the early Aromanian national movement in Vienna and Budapest.
[1] Nicolae Ianovici left for Timișoara and lived in the city for a short period of time, later moving to Pest (the eastern half of modern Budapest, Hungary).
In Budapest, other such figures included Mihail G. Boiagi and Gheorghe Constantin Roja.
[3] His contributions to the Aromanian cause consisted on the compilation of a dictionary in two volumes with 1302 pages in total, titled Diccionariu tru cinci limbe: ellinescu, grecescu, rumanescu, nemcescu shii madsarescu ("Dictionary for Five Languages: Hellenic, Greek, Aromanian, German and Hungarian").
[5] It is noticed that Ianovici was influenced by the Transylvanian School, a Romanian cultural and intellectual movement active in Habsburg and Austrian Transylvania at the time.