 In 1866, Roman became a founding member of the Romanian Literary Society, later the Romanian Academy.He also helped found the Reading Society of Studious Romanian Youth (1851) and the Petru Maior Society (1862).He edited the gazettes "Concordia" (founded at Budapest in 1861 in collaboration with Sigismund Pap, until 1866) and "Federațiunea" (1868-1876), which he also founded at Budapest.