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Ioan Bran (en. John Bran, 1811-1899) also known as Ioan Bran Lemeny was a lawyer, revolutionary of Transylvania and the first romanian civil servant. He was one of the organizers of the Romanian legions; the captain of the Fagaras district during the "liberal regime" (1861-1865).

Born 1811
Died 1899
Occupation Lawyer, Prefect

Early life and education

Ioan Bran was born in Romania, in a small town in Brașov County, named Zărnești. He was the son of Ioan Bran and Bucura Bran (born as Bucura Aldulea). He was the only boy in a family with four children. All three of his sisters were older than him. He was named like his father, a notary, and grandfather, preist in Zărnești. Ever since the 14th century the names of the ennobled ones was modified, adding on it the name of the native or the home locality or village. By Decree no. 25.766 of November 19, 1859, Ioan Bran receives authorization to wear the "Lemeny" and "Kozla" predicates.[1] When Ioan was four years old his father died (41).

He started studies in his home village and continued with secondary studies in Blaj and Sibiu. In 1830 his mother wanted to send him to study in Cluj-Napoca and take the Philosophical courses at the Roman Catholic High School, but she can't get social help so he can recieve free food an accomodation. Ioan Bran was a young boy, willing to study so he asks for help from his numerous and, some of them wealthy relatives, an he started Law school in Cluj-Napoca. He did his lawyer practice at the Court of Appeal of Targu Mureş.

After obtaining the censorship of the attorney (attestation), he establishes, in 1837, in Brasov as "the first Romanian advocate".[2]

Revolutionary activity

In July 1848 he bacame the epitaph of the St. Nicolae church in Brasov and he begins to get involved in revolutionary movements, ramarking himself as an important local leader.

He is part of the delegation of the 32 Romanian leaders in the Tara Barsei (Burzenland), who participate in the Adunarea de la Blaj (Great Assembly of Romanians in Blaj, May 15-17, 1848), where the national, political, religious and social claims are exposed; the same rights for Romanians as any nation inhabiting Ardeal, the independence of the Romanian nation and the protest against the unification of Transylvania with Hungary. In 13 April, 1848, a delegation led by Ioan Bran goes to the Magistrate session in Brașov, where he held a long speech in romanian, asking for new elections and that half of the positions in the council to be occupied by romanians.[3] In the year 1848 - at the meeting on 18 April, 13-point- it is decided to "choose Representation the most skilled and smarter from the community to go to Blaj" because "the Representation takes its holiest duty to take care and make the Romanian nation acquire its rights ".[4]

Due to his intellectual abilities and patriotism he was elected to this national assembly as secretary with nine other Romanians. On October 20, 1848, he signs with August Treboniu Laurian, Simion Bărnuţiu, Timotei Cipariu, Nicolae Bălăşescu and Florian Micăş the manifest to the Romanians.

He was also elected to be a member of the Romanian delegation to go to Vienna to present to the Emperor of Austria to the wishes of the Romanians in Transylvania. He continued to militate for the national rights of the Romanians in Transylvania and after the events of 1848-1849 ended.

In 1860 he became the supreme captain of the Fagaras district, having a decisive role in introducing the Romanian language into administration as an official language.[5]

Ioan Bran was also a member of an interest group, which purpose was to act as mediator between the ordinary people and their relationships with the main institutions, whether those were ecclesiastical, political ( the Romanian National Party of Transylvania), financial (the Albina bank), or cultural (the "ASTRA" cultural association). [6]

Personal life and career

Ioan Bran's grave in the cemetery of old Brasov Church.

At 27 years old, in september 4, 1938, he is getting married with Maria Oprea Circa, daughter The daughter of the great merchant whom he had known during his numerous trials at the Cluj Court of Appeal where he disputed the problems with the Saxons. Maria was 16 years old and was educated in a monastery in Sibiu. Ioan Bran Pop by Lemeny et Kozla and Maria Oprea Circa had 10 children, 7 boys and 3 girls.

His wife had a civic spirit and she founded a Women's Association in December 1850 to raise money to support the Transylvanian Association for Literature and Culture of the Romanian People - ASTRA, founded by Andrei Saguna.

Shortly after his appointment as perfect, he was named member of the Romanian National Committee, in the Defense Commission to organize military Transylvanian Romanians.[7] The person who helped him lead his district was the vice prefect, Constantin Săcărean.

Ioan Bran Lemeny has held various positions in administration and justice. He becomes a counselor in the Transylvanian government and at the Court of Appeal, and then a delegate of the Diet of Sibiu in the Central Parliament in Vienna.[8] The year 1850 is the year when Ioan Bran was called to Vienna as a trusted man in the committee that would determine the ways of land desertification as well as the investigation for the introduction of the Austrian Civil Code in Transylvania.

Between 1851-1864, we find him a judge of justice in the civil and military government of Transylvania, after which he is appointed counselor at the Court of Appeal in Sibiu. It is the period (November 1859) he receives from the Magistrate of Brasov the right to the titles of nobles, "by Lemeny" and "et Kozla".

In 1857 he became a counselor at the Court of Cassation and Justice of Sibiu together with Vasile Ladislau Pop, the only Romanians.[9]

In 1866, the Cluj authorities deferred Ioan Bran de Lemeny et Kozla from the prefect of the Fagaras district for refusing to reintroduce Hungarian into administration.

He moves back to Brasov as a retiree (he was retiered earlier so that he could not act in favor of the Romanians when implementing the Austro-Hungarian dualism of 1867), but he never stopped waching on every national and cultural moves, contributing whenever his support is invoked, being at the same time assistant and matrimonial defender of the Metropolitan Consistory in Sibiu. He died in Brașov in 1899, at 88 years old and he is burried in the family tomb, along with his wife Maria (1821-1880).

See also

References

  1. ^ "Nr. 921, Sapt. 25 aprilie - 8 mai 2017". www.monitorfg.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2017-04-26.
  2. ^ "Nr. 921, Sapt. 25 aprilie - 8 mai 2017". www.monitorfg.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2017-04-26.
  3. ^ Iscru, Gheorghe D. (1988). Revoluția română din 1848-1849. Albatros. p. 33.
  4. ^ "Ioan Bran de Lemeny, luptător pentru credinţă şi neam". Ziarul Lumina (in Romanian). Retrieved 2017-04-26.
  5. ^ Valentin Borda, Viorica Dutcă, Traian Rus - Avram Iancu şi prefecţii săi, Casa de editură Petru Maior, Târgu Mureş, 1997. ISBN 973-97703-7-1.
  6. ^ Daniel Dumitran, Valer Moga (1 January 2013). Economy and Society in Central and Eastern Europe. pp. 315–322.
  7. ^ "Cimitir | Parohia Brasovul Vechi". www.parohiabrasovulvechi.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2017-04-26.
  8. ^ "Prima pagină | Ziarul Lumina". Ziarul Lumina (in Romanian). Retrieved 2017-04-26.
  9. ^ Darastean, Niculita. "Tara Motilor". taramotilor.ro. Retrieved 2017-04-26.


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