Simion B?rnu?iu (Romanian pronunciation: [simi?on b?r?nut?sju]; 21 July 1808 – 28 May 1864) was a Transylvanian-born Romanian historian, academic, philosopher, jurist, and liberal politician. A leader of the 1848 revolutionary movement of Transylvanian Romanians, he represented its Eastern Rite Catholic wing. Barnu?iu lived for a large part of his life in Moldavia, and was for long a professor of philosophy at Academia Mih?ilean? and at the University of Ia?i.