Zenovie Pâclișanu
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Zenovie Pâclișanu
Zenovie Pâclișanu (1 May 1886 – 1957 or 1958) was an Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian historian, diplomat and cleric. A native of Transylvania, he completed a doctorate at Vienna, and during the 1910s was active in the cultural and religious life of Blaj. Following the creation of Greater Romania, which he enthusiastically supported, he became a civil servant, twice taking part in treaty negotiations. After World War II, the new Communist Romania, communist regime suppressed his Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic, Greek-Catholic Church and threw Pâclișanu in prison, where he died. His work, banned under communism but partly re-edited in the years since, focuses on the history of Transylvania between the 17th and 19th centuries, particularly in the religious sphere. Biography Origins, education and early activity Born into a family of Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic, Greek-Catholic peasants in Berghin, Straja, Alba County, in the ...
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