Victor Deleu (25 May 1876 – 11 December 1939) was a politician from

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. Deleu was born in Szilágyperecsen,

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, now Pericei,

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, Romania, the son of Daniel Deleu and Iuliana Cosma. His grandfather, (1804–1880), fought alongside

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in the Revolutions of 1848–1849. His brother, (1877–1946), participated as representative of Șimleu Silvaniei at the Great National Assembly in

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, where the

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was proclaimed on 1 December 1918. Victor Deleu attended elementary school in his native village from 1883 to 1887, and gymnasium at the Șimleu Silvaniei High School from 1887 1891. He continued his high school education in

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, Blaj,

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, and Beiuș, graduating in 1895. He then enrolled at the Faculty of Law of the University of Budapest, from where he graduated in 1900. He obtained his doctorate in law at Franz Joseph University in

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in 1902. After military service in the

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in Vienna, he practiced law in Arad from 1903 to 1905. Admitted to the bar in

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in 1905, he moved his practice to Șimleu Silvaniei. In 1911 he married Olivia de Bardosy, a piano teacher from

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. During

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, Deleu was a member of the Romanian Volunteer Corps in Russia. He served with Gheorghe Pop de Băsești and Iuliu Maniu in the Governing Council of Transylvania during the region's provisional autonomy, until April 1920. He then served as Mayor of Cluj from 11 June 1932 to 18 November 1933.Victor Deleu (1876–1939)
/ref> He died in Cluj in 1939. Streets in

Cluj-Napoca Cluj-Napoca ( ; ), or simply Cluj ( , ), is a city in northwestern Romania. It is the second-most populous city in the country and the seat of Cluj County. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant from Bucharest (), Budapest () and Belgrade ( ...

and

are named after him.

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Victor Deleu Enciclopedia României
1876 births 1939 deaths People from Sălaj County Eötvös Loránd University alumni Franz Joseph University alumni Romanian journalists Mayors of Cluj-Napoca {{Romania-bio-stub