Avram Iancu

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Contemporary portrait of the lawyer Iancu (before 1848/49)

Avram Iancu (* 1824 in Felsővidra , Romanian Vidra de Sus , today Avram Iancu , † September 10, 1872 in Czebe ) was a Romanian lawyer and revolutionary from Transylvania .

Life

Iancu was one of the leaders of the Romanian movement in Transylvania during the revolution of 1848/49 and had under his control the Apuseni Mountains , his home region. With Austrian support he fought against the Hungarian anti-Habsburg uprising . With some successes in skirmishes against the Hungarian military, he quickly gained notoriety among the people. After the Hungarian Revolution was put down by Habsburg and Tsarist troops, Avram Iancu withdrew to the Apuseni Mountains. He died on September 10, 1872, mentally deranged.

Role in Romanian historiography

After the unification of Transylvania with Romania in 1918 and especially in the 1970s and 1980s, Avram Iancu was ascribed an important role in Romanian historiography as a Romanian national hero who successfully defended himself against Hungarian hegemonic efforts. Even after the 1989 revolution , Avram Iancu monuments were erected in Transylvanian cities with a strong Hungarian minority (e.g. in Cluj-Napoca ), which are intended to underpin the legitimacy of the Romanian claim to Transylvania. This is seen by foreign historians in connection with the continuing ethnic tensions between Romanians and Magyars in Transylvania.

The birthplace of Avram Iancus was renamed after him in 1924 - on the occasion of his 100th birthday. Cluj-Napoca airport also bears his name today .

literature

Web links

Commons : Avram Iancu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ion Ranca, Valeriu Niţu, Avram Iancu: documente şi bibliography , Bucharest, Editura Ştiinţifică, 1974
  2. ↑ Margit Feischmidt: Ethnicity as Construction and Experience: Symbol Controversy and Everyday Culture in Cluj, Transylvania . In: Zeithorizonte - Perspektiven Europäische Ethnologie, Volume 8. LIT Verlag Münster, 2003. pp. 65–69. ISBN 3825866270
  3. ↑ Information in the web presentation of the municipality of Avram Iancu (Romanian)
personal data
SURNAME Iancu, Avram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Felsö-Vidra , now Avram Iancu
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1872
Place of death Czebe