1. IULIU MANIU
Iuliu Maniu Born on January 8, 1873, Bădăcin - died on February 5, 1953, Sighetu Marmaţiei was a
Romanian politician, a Romanian Transylvanian deputy in the Diet of Budapest, several times Prime Minister
of Romania (November 1928 - June 1930) June 1930 - October 1930, October 1932 - January 1933),
president of the National Peasant Party (1926-1933, 1937-1947), political prisoner after 1947, died in Sighet
prison. He was an honorary member (since 1919) of the Romanian Academy.
Iuliu Maniu spent his childhood at Şimleu Silvaniei and Bădăcin, followed the primary school in Blaj,
graduating from the reformed Calvin High School in Zalău. He studied at the University of Cluj (Faculty of
Law - 1891-1896), which he continued in Budapest [5] and Vienna, where he became a doctor in law in
1896. He returned to Transylvania, settled in Blaj , where he started his Blaj Metropolitan's activity and
professor of civil law at the Greco-Catholic Theological Academy.
Iuliu Maniu began his political career within the Romanian National Party of Transylvania. He also debuts as
a member and then president of the "Petru Maior" Academic Society, being co-opted in 1897, only 24 years,
on the PNR steering committee. In the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, he was elected in 1906 as a deputy in the
Parliament of Budapest, as a deputy of Vintu de Jos, Alba county, his parliamentary activity revealing his
courage and intransigence. On May 22, 1906 he made his first speech in the Diet of Budapest.
Student: Trandafirescu Madalina