 In 1879, he was elected member of an Aromanian cultural league, the Macedo-Romanian Cultural Society, becoming its president the following year and editing its historiographic textbook, "Albumul macedo-român" ("The Macedo-Romanian Album").He was presented with a bronze medal by the "Société d'Ethnographie" in 1880, and, the following year, received its medal of honor.The same body created the "Urechia Prize for Ethnographic Research", first awarded in 1882, and awarded him lifetime membership of the "Institut d'Ethnographie".