Coriolan Brediceanu

Coriolan Brediceanu (1849–1909) was an Austro-Hungarian Romanian lawyer and politician. Born in Lugoj, his children included Caius and Tiberiu.[1][2]

Biography

Brediceanu was born in Lugoj, the son of the soap maker Vasile Brediceanu, and the nephew of George Brediceanu,[3] a banished boyar from Oltenia and settled in Banat. He studied at Beius High School, then, attended the university in Budapest, where in 1874, he had his lawyer's diploma. After graduation, he returns to Lugoj where he lived by the end of his life. In Lugoj, he opened the law firm and soon, became well known for how he defended the peasantry in the trails that the majority of lawyers refused to take. Another fact was that the Brediceanu did not take honorariums from the poor persons. In 1896, he defended the peasants from Mehadia or miners from Ciclova Montant in the trials sued by Hungarian authorities. It was also confirmed, that Brediceanu defended intellectuals, such as writers and journalists sued by the Hungarian authorities for the criticism and favoritism to Romanian side. As for the politic side, Brediceanu was highly involved in defending the rights of Romanians, and in 1894, in Cluj, along with the other 30 lawyers, he defended the transylvanian Memorandum of the Romanian National Party Central Committee,[3] of which he has also been a member.

Notes
  1. (in Romanian) Vali Silaghi, "Ce nu se poate la Timişoara, se poate la Lugoj", Adevărul, January 22, 2013
  2. (in Romanian) Maria Lădău, "Coriolan Brediceanu – activitatea juridică" Archived 2012-04-15 at the Wayback Machine, in Revista Studențească de Studii de Istorie și Arheologie, Universitatea de Vest Timișoara, nr.2/2004
  3. Direcția pentru Cultură, Culte și Patrimoniul Cultural Național a județului Timiș, Mormântul lui Coriolan Brediceanu (secolul XIX) Archived 2016-09-11 at the Wayback Machine, dccpcnjtimis.ro, accesat 2018-07-15


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