Ioan Buteanu
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Ioan Buteanu | |
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| Born | 1821 |
| Died | 23 May 1849 Austrian Empire, Principality of Transylvania |
| Nationality | Romanian |
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| Known for | tribunal of the Auraria Gemina Legion in the Revolution of 1848 |
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Ioan Buteanu (born 1821, Sighetu Marmaţiei - d. May 23, 1849, Iosăşel) was one of the leaders of the Transylvanian Romanian Revolutionaries in 1848 and the prefect of Zaránd County between 1848 and 1849.
Early life and activity
He was born in Sighetu Marmatiei in 1821, (in other sources that he is mistakenly writing Somcuta Mare, where his father was born), in an old noble family in the Land of Chioar.[1] He attended gymnasium in Baia Mare and Carei, and the right to Cluj and Zagreb. He was a Chancellor for three years at Tabula Regia in Targu Mureş (Transylvanian Court of Appeal). After obtaining the lawyer's diploma he settled in Abrud, where he also found the events of 1848. Austrian General Anton Puchner appointed him as the administrator of Zarand, and the Romanian National Committee appointed him prefect in that region.
On May 15, 1848, he gave a speech at the Blaj Assembly, criticizing the intent of the Hungarian revolutionaries to unify Transylvania with Hungary.
Located in Sibiu in the summer of 1848, he received an invitation from Nicolae Bălcescu who asking him to join the Montenegrin revolution, but being very busy he could not do it. However, but he asked Avram Iancu to advocate in the National Committee to take action "to help the brothers beyond."
During the 1849 armistice between the Hungarian revolutionaries and the masters led by Avram Iancu, on May 6, the major adventurer Imre Hatvani with a detachment of Hungarian revolutionaries came in surprise in Abrud, disarmed the Romanians and devoted himself to atrocities. On May 7, Prefects Petru Dobra and Ioan Buteanu were taken prisoners.[2] Dobra was shot at Abrud, and Buteanu was sent to Brad and jailed. On May 19, Major Hatvani withdrew from Abrud to Brad, then through Baia de Criş and Hălmagiu to Gurahonţ. In retirement, he took Buteanu, whom he hung without trial on 23 May 1849 at Josesel.
In the memory of posterity
Ioan Buteanu was painted by Barbu Iscovescu when he was in the Apuseni Mountains, were refugeed being alongside other Wallachian revolutionaries.
On May 23, 1999, Pro-Maramures Cultural Society "Dragos Voda" commemorated 150 years after the death of Prefect Buteanu, built a bust in the center of Sighet, and on the Memorial House, today transformed into a place of worship, a commemorative plaque was placed.
Gurahont-Arad High School received the name of Ion Buteanu. His name was also worn by the 6th Regiment of Turda, a regiment commanded between 1972-1976 by Stefan Gusa.
Notes
- ^ Mager, Revoluția de la 1848: rolul și cultul lui Buteanu, manuscript of Ținutul Hălmagiului, 1937
- ^ Ela Cosma, Cronologia anilor 1848-49 în Transilvania, in: „Yearbook of the History Institute in Cluj”, tom.
Bibliography
- Traian Mager, Ținutul Hălmagiului, a monography in 4 volumes, Arad: The Diecean Typography, 1937
- Silviu Dragomir, Ioan Buteanu, The Zarand Prefect in the years 1848-49, Bucharest, 1928.
- Silviu Dragomir, Ioan Buteanu, Prefect of Zarand in the years 1848-49, Bucharest, 1928. Silviu Dragomir, Ioan Buteanu, Prefect of Zarand in the years 1848-49, 2nd edition, coordinated and completed by Vasile Iuga of Sălişte, "Dragoş Vodă" Publishing House, 2012.