Octavian Codru Tăslăuanu

Octavian Codru Tăslăuanu (February 1, 1876 – October 22, 1942) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian magazine publisher, non-fiction writer and politician.

Born in Bélbor, Maros-Torda County, now Bilbor, Harghita County, his parents were Ion, a Greek-Catholic priest and member of a clerical family; and Anisia (née Stan), a local peasant woman. The upper Mureș region, centered at Toplița, had been part of Moldavia before being annexed by the Habsburg Monarchy in 1775, and Ion would remind his son that the family was of Moldavian origin. The family name refers to the valley of the Tazlău River, where it lived prior to arriving in the Toplița area. The second of eleven children, Octavian started primary school in his native village before the age of five. From 1884 to 1889, he went to primary school in Gheorgheni. In autumn 1889, he enrolled in the Romanian high school at Năsăud. In 1890, he started at Brașov's Romanian high school, leaving for the Blaj high school in 1892. While there, in 1894, he was an active participant at the protests in support of the Transylvanian Memorandum.

In December 1895, he passed his baccalauréat at Năsăud, subsequently taking employment as a notary in Bicaz, in the Romanian Old Kingdom. In 1896, he was a teacher in Craiova, while the following year, he was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army and sent to serve at Trieste. Following examinations, he was made a second lieutenant in the reserves. From 1898 to 1902, he studied at the Literature and Philosophy faculties of the University of Bucharest, and his professors included Titu Maiorescu, Nicolae Iorga, Ovid Densusianu and Simion Mehedinți. A good student, he obtained a prize from the Carol I Academic Foundation for a work on the origins of the Hunyadi family.

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