Vasile Lucaciu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetVasile Lucaciu
Romanian priest and activist
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Place of Birth: Apa, Satu Mare County, Romania
About Vasile Lucaciu
- Vasile Lucaciu (January 21, 1852 in Apa, Szatmár – November 29, 1922 in Satu Mare) 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 (1892).
- 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/Beius 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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