Vasile Stoica

Edit links
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Vasile Stoica
Vasile Stoca

Vasile Stoica (Romanian pronunciation:

Ion I.C. Brătianu
.

Early life and education

Stoica was born in a family that originated from Transylvania (then in the Hungarian half of Austria-Hungary, but now in Romania); according to his birth certificate, Vasile Stoica was born in Avrig on January 1, 1889. He was the son of Maria and Gheorghe Stoica, Romanians belonging to the Christian Orthodox faith. He attended elementary school in Avrig.

His interest for the politics is proved by his status as one of the members of the Romanian National Party of Transylvania and Banat, from 1909.

From September the same year, Vasile Stoica followed the courses of Literature at

Budapest University, until 1913; two semesters at University of Paris Faculty of Letters. In October 1913, he became president of the cultural organization of the "Petru Maior" ethnic Romanians undergraduates in Budapest
.

World War I

Upon

Austria-Hungary's declaration of war on Serbia that led to the outbreak of World War I, Vasile Stoica was a teacher. In August–September, Stoica worked as a redactor-answerable at Românul, the leading Romanian language newspaper in Austria-Hungary. In October 1914, he choose to leave the Empire to avoid conscription, and headed for Bucharest
, in still-neutral Romania.

He tried to work for

Galaţi. He published another, more radical book, Suferinţele din Ardeal ("Sufferings in Transylvania"), in Bucharest in the summer of 1916. The young author’s book is a "declaration of war" against Austria-Hungary. In June, an Austro-Hungarian Army court-martial in Cluj sentenced him to death in absentia
.

At the end of August 1916, the Romanian government, impressed by the early success of the

Brusilov Offensive, declared war on Germany and Austria-Hungary. King Ferdinand
’s Proclamation to the Army, drafted by Stoica along with the proclamation for the Romanian public opinion, read:

"You will fight alongside the great nations we are united with. Bloody battles are waiting you, but bravely enduring their hardness and with God’s help the victory will be ours".

He subsequently fought in the Romanian Army against

Czech Tomáš Masaryk and the Polish Ignacy Jan Paderewski
.

He was instrumental in the creation of the Romanian National League of America in July, some months after America joined the

Romanian-American community towards the US forces on the Western Front
.

Stephen P. Duggan wrote on December 10, 1920:

"He has been over every part of [the United States]. He has come in contact with university professors, financiers, industrialists, [and Romanian-Americans]. He has made a district success wherever he went, as much a social success as an official success. It will take a new man a long time to learn as much as
Captain
Stoica and to secure the confidence of Americans in the way he has. Because of my official position, I have come during the war period, in contact with the representatives of all the foreign nations, and no one of them has impressed more favourably than Captain Stoica".

Personal life

Vasile Stoica married Ines (Nessy) Longhi de Sobione. Born January 21, 1898 in Parma, Italy, she came to Romania in 1927. Their marriage ended in divorce sometime prior to 1940. Ines Longhi died on February 16, 1956 while married to her second husband, Carol Ardeleanu, (né Köhler) an ethnic German from Transylvania.

Postwar Imprisonment under Communist Rule

He was imprisoned from 1948 to 1954 and in 1957 was arrested again and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He died in Jilava Prison in 1959.

Further reading

Stoica, Vasile. The Roumanian Question: The Roumanians and their Lands. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Printing Company (1919).

References

Footnotes

  1. ^ "The Roumanian Question: The Roumanians and their Lands". World Digital Library. 1919. Retrieved 2013-10-05.

Sources

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vasile Stoica.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vasile_Stoica&oldid=1155424236"