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Statue of Emanuil Gojdu (Gozsdu Manó)

Emanuil Gojdu
Statue of Emanuil Gojdu (Gozsdu Manó)
Emanuil Gojdu
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
statue / memorial / relief
Address:
Parcul 1 Decembrie
Historical Hungarian county:
Bihar
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
47.05359778, 21.9369176912
Google map:

History

Erected in 1988 by Mircea Ştefănescu. Emanuil Gojdu (1802-1870) came from a Macedonian Aromanian family. He studied at the Law Academy in Nagyvárad and Pozsony. In 1826, he published some of his poems in Hungarian. In 1827, he was the first lawyer in Pest to introduce the Hungarian language case management instead of Latin. He represented mainly in criminal prosecutions and amassed a large fortune. In 1861, after the October Diploma, he became the ispán of Krassó County, but resigned his post after the dissolution of the Hungarian Diet in November. Between 1865 and 1868 he represented the district of Tenke in the Hungarian Parlament. During the Reconciliation he supported Deák Ferenc's view of the 'one and indivisible nation'. Hé became the judge of the Supreme Court of Justice in 1869. In his will he left his property to the Orthodox Romanians. In 1901, the Gozsdu Foundation, created from his fortune, built the Gozsdu Court in Pest.

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