Simion Bărnuțiu, Romanian historian and politician (born 1808)

Simion Bărnuțiu

Romanian historian, academic, philosopher, jurist, and liberal politician

Simion Bărnuțiu was a Romanian historian, academic, philosopher, jurist, and liberal politician. A leader of the 1848 revolutionary movement of Transylvanian Romanians, he represented its Eastern Rite Catholic wing. Bărnuțiu lived for a large part of his life in Moldavia, and…