Stefan Margela is one of the leading philologists of Bessarabia from the early nineteenth century. He was a polyglot, a lawyer, a translator and the author of a manual for Lancasterian schools and of a Russian – Romanian – Greek – French dictionary that remained in manuscript. Stefan Margela is also the author of the most prestigious bilingual Grammar published in Saint Petersburg in 1827. This grammar was used in teaching both in Bessarabia and the Romanian countries. It was the work via which Stefan Margela contributed to the reform of Romanian Cyrillic alphabet and promoted the words the Romanian language and Romanian in the nineteenth century.