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1. Iuliu Maniu of Romania
Hilohi Mihai Adrian, MIEADR IEA, Group 8103
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 Calvinist 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.
Keywords: Iuliu Maniu
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Coordinating teacher: Mihai Daniel Frumuselu