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, […]