Lawyer, judge, writer, translator (especially from Russian), fabulist, descendant of a line of noble Moldovans. He began his activity in Chisinau, then in Iasi, holding an important position in the Epitropia of Schools. Later, he became an assessor at the Court of Appeal, and in 1846 he was elected president of the Neamt Tribunal. He was an active member of the parish Divan and collaborated to the magazines “Albina Românească”, “Dacia literară”, “Propășirea” and other publications of that period. Apart from fables, he composed verses and plays. Some of his ancestors are buried in the cemetery of the church of “Saints Constantine and Helen” in Chisinau, which several generations have founded over the years, Donici himself finding his final resting place in Iasi. Today, a street in Chisinau  bears his name.