Maria Cosniceanu (born February 4, 1935) is a Moldovan linguist, with interests in onomastics.[1][2][3]
She was born in the village of Temeleuți, Florești, then Soroca County (Romania). Graduating from the Philology Department of the Chișinău State University (now the Moldova State University) in 1957, for one year she worked as a teacher in a school in Hânceşti. Since 1958 all her life he worked at the Institute of Philology of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova.[2]
In 2022 a book devoted to her was published, Maria Cosniceanu: In Service of Correct Names.[2][4]