Ioan Axente Sever

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Ioan Axente Sever

Ioan Axente Sever (born Ioan Axente; 15 April 1821–13 August 1906) was a Romanian revolutionary in Austria-Hungary who participated in the Transylvanian Revolution of 1848.

He was born in Frâua (called Axente Sever since 1931), the son of Iacob Baciu and Ana, née Maxim. From 1831 to 1835 he studied in Blaj. He then returned to pursue his studies at the Gheorghe Lazăr Gymnasium in Sibiu, after which he returned in 1840 to Blaj to study theology and philosophy, having Simion Bărnuțiu as professor.[1] He was in Bucharest as a professor when the Wallachian Revolution broke out in 1848, and he served as propaganda officer for the revolutionaries.[2] After the defeat of the revolution, he returned to Transylvania to participate in the Blaj Assemblies.[3]

Named prefect of the Blaj district, he became commander of Legion I in the army of Avram Iancu. From October 1848 to August 1849, with the objective of disarming Hungarian units, he saw action at Uioara, Ciumbrud, Sâncrai, Cricău, Aiud, Turda, Cluj, Cetatea de Baltă, Ocna Sibiului, the Apuseni Mountains, Alba Iulia and elsewhere. The campaign ended with the Surrender at Világos. Arrested in late 1849, he stood trial at Sibiu, Bistrița, and Cluj. Together with other commanders (chiefly, Iancu and  [ro]), he wrote reports on these events (published in German in newspapers from Vienna in 1850–1853), in which he argued that the Romanians in Transylvania were loyal to the Habsburg Emperor, and that they fought with Hungarian troops because the government in Budapest did not recognize the rights of the Romanians as a nation.[2]

Bust of Sever in Baia Mare

In 1850 he was a tenant farmer at Cenade; in 1851, he was named court secretary at Alba Iulia.[1] In later years, he was part of the ASTRA leadership in Sibiu.[3] He moved to Brașov in 1892. His health began to decline in late 1900, and he was hospitalized in 1904. He died two years later, and was taken by train to Blaj, where he was buried.[1]

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  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Stăncescu, Gheorghe. "Ioan Axente Sever – Un erou transilvănean". Historia (in Romanian). Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Tatu, Alexiu; Ciobanu, Vasile (2016), "O scrisoare inedită a lui Ioan Axente Sever despre comandanții forțelor române din Transilvania în 1848−1849" [An Unpublished Letter of Ioan Axente Sever about the Romanian Forces Commanders in Transylvania in 1848–1849], Anuarul Institutului de Cercetări Socio-Umane Sibiu (in Romanian), 23: 137–152
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b (in Romanian) Ecaterina Țarălungă, Enciclopedia identității românești Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine, p.46. Editura Litera, 2011, ISBN 978-606-600-246-2
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