Ioan Popovici (brigadier general), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About Ioan Popovici (brigadier general)
- Ioan Popovici (23 August 1865 – 1953, in Sighet) was a Romanian general assigned to the general staff headquarters, during World War I.
- He attended the ?coala Militara de Infanterie ?i Cavalerie (Military Infantry and Cavalry School) in Bucharest from 1885 to 1887.
- Afterward he rose through the ranks until he became a Brigadier General in 1916 as World War I was raging, engulfing Romania.
- He was known as "Epure" to distinguish him from another Romanian general with the same name. In World War I, he was assigned to the general staff at headquarters.After the Communists took power in Romania, he was arrested in 1948 (at 83 years of age), ultimately dying in Sighet Prison in 1953.
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