Vasile Lucaciu
| Vasile Lucaciu | |
|---|---|
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Bust in Baia Mare | |
| Born |
21 January 1852 Apa, Szatmár, Austria-Hungary |
| Died |
29 November 1922 (aged 70) Satu Mare, Transylvania, Romania |
| Residence | Austria, Austria-Hungary, Romania |
| Citizenship | Austria-Hungary, Romania |
| Fields | Politics, Theology |
| Known for | journalistic activity |
| Influenced | political thought in Austria-Hungary and Romania |
Vasile Lucaciu (fifth from the left, bottom row) with the other co-signers of the Transylvanian Memorandum
Vasile Lucaciu (January 21, 1852, Apa, Szatmár – November 29, 1922, Satu Mare) was a Romanian Greek-Catholic priest and an advocate of equal rights with the Hungarians in Transylvania.
He was a member of the National Romanian Party and a co-author of the Transylvanian Memorandum (1892). As a consequence, Vasile Lucaciu was tried for "homeland betrayal" in Kolozsvár/Cluj in May 1894 and sentenced to five years in prison. However he was released after one year.
In 1905 he was elected deputy for the Belényes/Beiuş constituency in the Hungarian Parliament.
In March 1917, Vasile Lucaciu was a member of a group of exiled Romanian Habsburg subjects who were sent as a delegation to the United States to campaign for Romania's cause.
References
- Alexandru Ciura, "Biografia părintelui Vasile Lucaciu" (Sibiu, 1928).
- Florin Mirghesiu - "Iaşi - Washington via Siberia, Coreea, Japonia şi Hawaii", in Magazin Istoric, no. 12, December 2004.
- Gelu Neamţu, "Vasile Lucaciu şi voluntarii români în armata Statelor Unite în primul război mondial (1917-1918)", In: AUDC ist., 2001.
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