Gheorghe Popovici (writer)

George Popovici (German: Georg Popovici; November 20 [O.S. November 8] 1863 – July 11/12, 1905) was an Austro-Hungarian and Romanian agrarian politician, jurist and poet. The scion of a middle-class intellectual family in Austrian-ruled Bukovina, he took to politics as a youth, participating in the nationalist movement as a member of Societatea Academică Junimea and Concordia Society. He won a seat in the Austrian House of Deputies in 1897, and, during his mandate, co-founded the Romanian National People's Party, which he also represented in the Diet of Bukovina. Popovici and Iancu Flondor led the party's autonomist wing, which rejected compromise with the Austrian administration and demanded national rights for the Romanian Bukovinans.

Popovici lost the parliamentary election of 1900, during which time he ran into heavy debt. He left for the Kingdom of Romania, renouncing Austrian citizenship and focusing on his career as a historian of law. He eventually committed suicide at Munkács, which was at the time part of Hungarian Transleithania. His poetry was collected into a volume after his death.

Born in Czernowitz (Cernăuți), in Austrian-ruled Duchy of Bukovina, his parents were the Romanian Orthodox priest Eusebiu Popovici (1838–1922) and his wife Elena Hacman. Eusebiu's father Constantin (1807–1890), himself a parish priest, had served in the Diet in 1861; his uncle, Constantin Clement Popovici, a church historian, also had a career in politics. Eusebiu himself was recognized for his work as an antiquarian, librarian, and theologian. The family was unrelated to Eusebie Popovici (1863–1937), a senior politician who later was George Popovici's colleague. Eusebie had embraced Romanian nationalism from the 1870s, against the conservatism of the boyar class; George radicalize himself even further, by introducing social demands into the nationalist program and seeking direct backing from the peasants.

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