Anton Durcovici was born on 17 May 1888 as the second of two children in Bad Deutsch Altenburg to Franz Durcovici (1858-05.02.1893) and Maria Mittermeier; he was baptized in the Assumption church on the following 21 May. He left for the Romanian Kingdom together with his widowed mother and his brother Franz; the three settled in Iaşi in 1895. His father had died from acute tuberculosis in 1893. His father contracted this as a result of his time as a soldier back in the 1878 Bosnian campaign.