Mihail Gheorghiu Bujor
| Mihail Gheorghiu Bujor | |
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| Born |
November 8, 1881 Iaşi |
| Died | June 17, 1964 (aged 82) Bucharest |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Occupation | lawyer |
Mihail Gheorghiu Bujor (November 8, 1881 - June 17, 1964) was a Romanian lawyer, journalist and socialist militant. An important figure in the early Romanian labour movement, he embraced communism during World War I and organised Romanian armed detachments in Odessa in support of the October Revolution, hoping to foment a revolution in his native country. A political prisoner in Romania for much of the interwar period and during World War II, he held several minor political offices after the regime change in the late 1940s.
Mihail Gh. Bujor was born in Iaşi, the sixth children of Gheorghe Gheorghiu, a civil servant. The family was somewhat influential in the city, affording the luxury to provide adequate education for all of the twelve children. Three of children died from tuberculosis, followed shortly by the parents while Mihail was in his teen years. The quick succession of deaths is credited with transforming Mihail into an atheist.
After completing a local high school, Bujor enrolled in the school of law at the University of Iaşi, also following the courses of several other faculties, such as literature, philosophy and natural sciences. Coming in contact with socialist ideas, he decided to join the Romanian Social Democratic Workers' Party at 16, however he was rejected on account of his young age. He would eventually be admitted at 18, shortly before the party's demise. While in university, he participated in several Marxist study circles, such as the Circle of Social Studies of the Socialists of Moldavia, organized by Max Wexler and Dr. Ghelerter, and the Circle for the Enlightenment of the Workers of Iaşi. Conscripted in 1901, he served in a Vânători de munte battalion and was discharged in 1902 with the rank of second lieutenant.
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