Alexandru Papiu Ilarian

[1] Papiu Ilarian was born in Bezded (Hungarian: Bezdédtelek), Kingdom of Hungary (today part of Gârbou, Romania) on 27 September 1827.

In the autumn of 1838 he enters the Catholic secondary school in Târgu Mureş.

[6] He finished high school in Cluj (Hungarian: Kolozsvár) and obtain a doctorate of laws at the University of Padua.

[9] As member of the Bar in Bucharest, he pleaded in court the case of the oxcart drivers from Giurgiu, in 1873.

[10] He died in Sibiu (Hungarian: Nagyszeben) on 23 October 1877, and is buried at the Church between the Fir trees.