Vasile Goldiș

Vasile Goldiș (12 November 1862 – 10 February 1934) was a Romanian politician and member of the Romanian Academy.

He was born on 12 November 1862 in his grandfather's (Teodor Goldiș) house in the village of Mocirla. His parents were Isaia and Floarea Goldiș. The family of his father had its origins in the Chişcău village, Bihor County. Around 1740 Teodor Goldiș moved with his family to Mocirla where Vasile Goldiș was born.

The first years of his life were spent in the villages of Mocirla, Seleuș and Cermei in the house of his parents and grandparents. He started primary school in the village of Cermei in 1869 where he studied the first two grades in Romanian with his teacher Nicolae Albu. He studied the third grade at the general school in Padanul Nou (now Horea, Arad County). Between 1873 - 1881, he was a student of the Theoretical High School in Arad, being especially interested in history, literature and philosophy.

On 1 September 1881, he joined the classes of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy in Arad as a scholar of the Orthodox Church, in 1881–1882 and 1884–1885 he was a student of the University of Budapest and between 1882–1884 he studied at the University of Vienna where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree. During his student years, he became a member of the Petru Maior and Romania Jună societies.

After graduating, he became a professor at the Eötvös High School in Budapest on 1 September 1885. One year later he quit this job for patriotic reasons and moved to Caransebeş, where he taught History and Latin at the Pedagogic-Theological Institute.

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