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Avram Iancu
Avram Iancu (1824-10 September 1872) was a Romanian lawyer that played an important role in the Transylvanian revolution of 1848-1849.
He was born in a family of peasants in the Vidra village (now in Alba county in the Apuseni Mountains of Transylvania. He studied humanities in Cluj and then the law school. After graduation, he became a law clerk in Tārgu Mureş. It was there that he learned about the events of March 1848 of Vienna and Budapest.
He was one of the initiators of the Blaj reunion of 1848, he becomes the leader of the army of Romanian peasants and miners of the Apuseni Mountains and defeats certain attacks of the Hungarian Army. However, with the time, Iancu's army weakened and with the help of the Russian army, the Habsburgs defeated the revolutionary army at Sighişoara and surrendered on 13 August 1849.
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