ABSTRACT
The Romanian Academy had a very important role in Simeon Florea Marian’s life and scientific achievements. Without the generous and competent help of the Romanian Academy, whose member he was, the special results he achieved would be difficult to imagine.
The main directions in which S. Fl. Marian carried out his reach activity within the Romanian Academy are the following: presentation of the Romanian folk culture in collections of folklore and ethno-folkloric synthesis of a high documentary and scientific value; research of the history and old Romanian culture of Bukovine, at that moment under foreign occupation; participation in the elaboration by the Romanian Academy of an important lexicographic work and the positive influencing of the scientific movement of that epoch, by the speeches sustained and the numerous reports prepared as for certain works, given his capacity of referrer of the Romanian Academy for the assignment of awards.