 Upon his 1858 return to Moldavia, Urechia was appointed court inspector in Iaşi County and Romanian language teacher at a gymnasium level.After 1860, he held a Romanian-language and Classical Literature chair at the newly founded University of Iaşi.His wife Francisca died a young woman, most likely before 1860, and Urechia remarried, to the German amateur musician Luiza "Zettina" Wirth.