Vasile Lucaciu
Politician, Academic
1852 – 1922
Who was Vasile Lucaciu?
Vasile Lucaciu was a Romanian Greek-Catholic priest and an advocate of equal rights with the Hungarians in Transylvania.
He was a member of the National Romanian Party and a co-author of the Transylvanian Memorandum. As a consequence, Vasile Lucaciu was tried for "homeland betrayal" in Kolozsvár/Cluj in May 1894 and sentenced to five years in prison. However he was released after one year.
In 1905 he was elected deputy for the Belényes/Beiuş constituency in the Hungarian Parliament.
In March 1917, Vasile Lucaciu was a member of a group of exiled Romanian Habsburg subjects who were sent as a delegation to the United States to campaign for Romania's cause.
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- Born
- Jan 21, 1852
Apa, Satu Mare - Religion
- Eastern Catholic Churches
- Greek Catholic Church
- Ethnicity
- Romanians
- Nationality
- Austria-Hungary
- Romania
- Profession
- Lived in
- Satu Mare County
- Austria
- Died
- Nov 29, 1922
Satu Mare
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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