Ion Nistor

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Ion Nistor (August 16, 1876 - November 11, 1962) was a prominent Romanian historian. He was a member of the Romanian Academy after 1911, and served as administrator of its Library.

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He was the author of several historical works, including The History of Bukovina, The Origin of Romanians and the Vlachs of Thessalia and Epirus, The history of Romanians in Transnistria, and The History of Romanians. He also authored an ethnographic map of Bukovina under Austrian domination, based on the census of 1910.

At the end of World War I, he was a member of the National Assembly in Cernăuţi (1918), which decided Bukovina's unification with Romania.

Nistor was the rector of the University of Cernăuţi for many years in the interwar period, during the period when that city was part of Romania. A member of the National Liberal Party, he was Minister of State for Bukovina, and, in succession, Minister of Public Works, Minister of Labour, and Minister of the Cults and Arts.

After the start of Communist rule in Romania, he was subject to persecution, and was incarcerated in Sighet prison between 1950 and 1955.