Simeon Mangiuca

Born in Broșteni, Caraș-Severin County, in the Banat region, his father Ioachim was a Romanian Orthodox priest;[1] his mother Calina (née Berceanu) died of tuberculosis when Simeon and his brother were young.

When political conditions allowed, he pressed for the establishment of a Romanian-language newspaper in Timișoara, believing that this was the best means of organizing a populace that had become passive following the 1848 revolution.

While Marienescu was an ardent collector of folklore, Mangiuca's collecting activity was limited to the songs for the dead published in two studies.

He regularly contributed articles to a number of Romanian publications in the empire, especially Albina (Vienna), Luminătoriul (Timișoara) and Familia (Oradea).

[1] In the latter magazine, he published studies about Baba Dochia, Romanian botanical terminology and Latin-origin words specific to the Banat dialect.