Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi

Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi (also spelled Eudoxiu Hurmuzache; ; 29 September 1812 – 10 February 1874) was a Romanian historian and politician who served as Landeshauptmann of the Duchy of Bucovina. Early life and family Hurmuzachi was born into a family of old noble lineage (see Hurmuzachi brothers), as the second son of Doxache Hurmuzachi, at the family estate in Czernawka, Austria (now Chornivka, Ukraine), located in the historic region of Bukovina. His father used to offer refuge to persecuted Romanian political leaders from Transylvania, and went into considerable debt for this. Together with his brothers, Eudoxiu would become one of the leading figures of the Romanian national movement in Bukovina. Career Hurmuzachi went to Vienna to study history; there he experienced the Revolutions of 1848, and decided to interrupt his studies. He returned home and participated in the movement to introduce the Romanian language at the Theological Institute in Czernowitz (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine; known as Cernăuți during Romanian rule), and to establish a Romanian language and literature course at the Institute for Philosophic Studies, also in Czernowitz.