1. Vasile Goldiș
(12 November 1862 – 10 February 1934)
Student:
Gușă Tobias
GRUPA: 8215
Prof. coord.:
Frumuselu Daniel-Mihai
University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine
Faculty of Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture
and Rural development
2. Vasile Goldiș was a Romanian politician
and member of the Romanian Academy.
He was born on 12 November 1862 in his
grandfather's (Teodor Goldiș) house in the
village of Mocirla. His parents were Isaia
and Floarea Goldiș. The family of his father
had its origins in the Chişcău village, Bihor
County. Around 1740 Teodor Goldiș moved
with his family to Mocirla where Vasile
Goldiș was born.
3. On 1 September 1881, he joined
the classes of the Faculty of
Letters and Philosophy in Arad as
a scholar of the Orthodox
Church, in 1881–1882 and 1884–
1885 he was a student of
the University of Budapest and
between 1882–1884 he studied at
the University of Vienna where
he received a Bachelor of Arts
degree. During his student years,
he became a member of
the Petru Maior and Romania
Jună societies.
After graduating, he became a
professor at the Eötvös High
School in Budapest on 1
September 1885. One year later
he quit this job for patriotic
reasons and moved
to Caransebeş, where he
taught History and Latin at the
Pedagogic-Theological Institute.
4. Vasile Goldiș was a
publicist, a politician, and
an honorary member of
the Romanian Academy.
With Philology and
Philosophy studies
completed at the
Universities of Budapest
and Vienna, he gained a
reputation as an orator
and proponent of political
doctrine. As a Member of
the Hungarian Parliament
between 1906-1910, he
repeatedly intervened
against various laws that
violated the rights of
nationalities and, in
particular, of Romanians.
5. He headed Românul (The Romanian) newspaper, founded in Arad
on January 1, 1911. The periodical became the headquarters of
Romanian unionist action. As director, Vasile Goldiş refused to sign the
fidelity declaration to Count István Tisza’s government under the
conditions of Romania’s entry into war against Austria-Hungary. His act
of rebellion led to the suspension of the newspaper in March 1916, and
it re-emerged only in 1918.
He drafted the Oradea Declaration, which proclaimed the right to
self-determination of the Romanians in Transylvania, on October 12,
1918. He was also among those who inspired the Resolution of Union
of 1918.
Vasile Goldiş (fourth from the left, bottom
row) in the Directory Council of
Transylvania, 1918
6. On December 1, 1918, Vasile Goldiş gave a speech at the Great
National Assembly of Alba Iulia in which he highlighted the national
and social oppression of Romanians in Transylvania and Banat
throughout the ages.
After the Union, his political career continued in Bucharest, where he
was elected Deputy in the Romanian Parliament and co-opted in
several governments.
Vasile Goldiş (first from the left) as member of the
Romanian Transylvanian delegation that brought to
Bucharest the act of union of Transylvania with the
Kingdom of Romania