Ștefan Meteș (en)

“…He was taken from his home in Cluj by the Ministry of the Interior on 6 May 1950. He was investigated and then imprisoned in Sighet, where he endured the ordeal of the dungeon along with the entire Romanian anti-Communist elite.” Our interlocutor is Professor Ioan Drăgan, Director of the Transylvanian State Archives. Toader Buculei: Dear Professor Drăgan, could you tell us something about Ștefan Meteș and his role in the Union of Transylvania with the motherland? Ioan Drăgan: On the eve of the war, Ștefan Meteș returned to Transylvania and worked as a teacher at the confessional school in […]

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He studied theology and history at the Theological Institutes of Arad, Sibiu and Caransebeș, but also at the University of Bucharest, where he had as teachers Nicolae Iorga and Vasile Onciul: Nicolae Iorga, Dimitrie Onciul and Vasile Pârvan. It was they who introduced the young Meteș to the secrets of historical research. He published in periodicals, supported by the great historian Iorga, and was ordained a priest in Boholt, Hunedoara County. After the First World War, he was already well known in the historians’ guild, being elected a member of the Romanian Academy and director of the National Archives in […]

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