Fr. Ioan Lupaș (en)

The destiny of Ioan Lupaș, professor of church history in the era of communist totalitarianism NETER

“He was arrested by the Securitate in 1950 and taken away (at the age of 70!) with a bag over his head in a direction unknown to my mother and the rest of the family”. In the old age of the scientist and his family members, the Red Plague came. Through the kindness of the daughter of the renowned historian and professor, Mrs Marina Vlasiu-Lupaș, historian (medievalist), former secondary school teacher, archivist and senior researcher at the “Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History in Bucharest, we learn testimonies, especially about her father’s passions. Toader Buculei: As a historian of the Romanian […]

Ioan Lupaș, the missionary academician

Ioan Lupaș, a prominent figure in the cultural and ecclesiastical life of the 20th century, was born on 9 August 1880 in Săliște, Sibiu County. He attended primary school in his home town between 1886 and 1891, and then attended an additional class at the Roman-Catholic Gymnasium in Sibiu to improve his knowledge of German and Hungarian. From 1892 he attended secondary school at the State Gymnasium in Sibiu, where he excelled. Due to a conflict over national issues with the history teacher Arpad Tompa, whose views on the history of the Romanian people the young Lupaș could not accept, […]