Gheorghe Sion (May 22, 1822 â October 1, 1892) was a Moldavian, later Romanian poet, playwright, translator and memoirist.
He was born in MamorniÃÂa to paharnic (royal cup-bearer) IoniÃÂàSion and his wife Eufrosina (née Schina), the daughter of Filiki Eteria member Gheorghe Schina. His uncles included Constantin Sion, author of a semi-fictitious noble genealogy (Arhondologia Moldovei); and spÃÂtar Antohi Sion, the rumored author of Izvodul lui ClÃÂnÃÂu, an outright forgery. After spending two years (1837-1839) at Saint Sava College in Bucharest, the capital of Wallachia, he returned to his native Moldavia. Entering the IaÃÂi-based provincial administration, he became a copyist at the Justice Department in 1842, followed by work as a clerk at the Interior Department. He became a wanted man for his participation in the 1848 revolution, and so fled to Austrian-ruled Transylvania. He returned to IaÃÂi in 1849, working as bureau chief at the Department of Church Property and Public Education. From 1855, he worked at the State Archives.
Subsequently, around the time of the Union of the Principalities, Sion moved to Bucharest, where his posts included membership in the Appeals Court and, from 1866, head of the Tobacco Monopoly Company. In 1868, he was elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy. In Bucharest, he founded Revista CarpaÃÂilor in 1860 and, together with V. A. Urechia, published TransacÃÂiuni literare ÃÂi ÃÂtiinÃÂifice starting in 1872. His volumes included poetry (Ciasurile de mulÃÂÃÂmire a lui Gheorghe Sion, 1844; Din poeziile lui Gheorghe Sion, 1857), plays (InfluinÃÂa moralÃÂ, 1869; La Plevna!, 1878; Dramatice, 1879; SÃÂrutarea, 1888), a travel book (Suvenire de cÃÂlÃÂtoria în Basarabia meridionalÃÂ, 1857), and memoirs (Suvenire contimpurane, 1888).