Atanasie Marian Marienescu (March 21 [O.S. March 9] 1830–January 20 [O.S. January 7] 1915) was an Austro-Hungarian ethnic Romanian folklorist, ethnographer and judge. Born in Lipova, Arad County, in the Banat region, his father Ion Marian was a trader, while his mother Persida (née Șandor) came from Nădlac. After completing the Romanian-language primary school in his native town in 1842, he enrolled in the Minorite gymnasium of Arad. He finished six grades there, interrupting his studies for a year due to the 1848 revolution. He took grade seven in Timișoara and the final year in Pest, prior to entering the law faculty of the Royal University of Pest. While in the city, he frequently visited Emanoil Gojdu. He studied there for three years before transferring to the University of Vienna, fr