Iuliu Maniu was a Romanian politician who served as Prime Minister of Romania for three terms between 1928-1933. He was a leader of the National Party of Transylvania and Banat before and after World War I, and co-founded the National Peasants' Party with Ion Mihalache. Maniu was born in 1873 in Austria-Hungary to an ethnic Romanian family and studied law in several universities, receiving his doctorate in 1896. He joined the Romanian National Party of Transylvania and Banat in 1897 and represented them in the Budapest Parliament. After World War I broke out in 1914, Maniu moved towards supporting a union between Transylvania and the Kingdom of Romania.

1. STUDENT’S SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM USAMV MIEADR 2018
Keywords: Iuliu Maniu, Romanian politician, Prime Minister of Romania
Iuliu Maniu (January 8, 1873 – February 5, 1953) was a Romanian politician. A leader of
the National Party of Transylvania and Banat before and after World War I, he served
as Prime Minister of Romania for three terms during 1928–1933, and, with Ion Mihalache,
co-founded the National Peasants' Party.
Maniu was born to an ethnic Romanian family in Szilágybadacsony, Austria-Hungary (now
Badacin, Romania ; his parents were Ioan Maniu and Clara Maniu. He finished the Calvinit
College in Zalău in 1890, and studied Law at the Franz Joseph University, then at
the University of Budapest and that of Vienna, being awarded the doctorate in 1896.
Maniu joined the Romanian National Party of Transylvania and Banat (PNR), became a
member of its collective leadership body in 1897, and represented it in
the Budapest Parliament on several occasions. He settled in Blaj, and served as lawyer for
the Greek Catholic Church (to which he belonged). Maniu was influenced by the activity
of Simion Bărnuțiu, a maternal uncle of his father, Ioan Maniu.
After serving as an advisor for Archduke Franz Ferdinand , counseling on the latter's projects
to redefine the Habsburg states along the lines of a United States of Greater Austria Maniu
moved towards the option of a union with the Romanian Old Kingdom when the Archduke
was assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914.
IULIU MANIU
Perișan Mihaela, MIEADR IEA, GROUP 8114
Coordinating teacher:
Mihai Daniel Frumușelu
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
ki/Iuliu_Maniu
Bucharest 2018