Ion Clopoțel

The native of a rural area west of Brașov, he attended high school in that city and ultimately earned a university degree in Vienna.

Born in Poiana Mărului, Brașov County, in the Transylvania region that was then part of Austria-Hungary, his parents were Ion Clopoțel and Susana (née Lăzăroiu).

Traveling at considerable expense to Vălenii de Munte in the Romanian Old Kingdom, he attended Iorga's "summer university" for five years in a row.

At the end of the year, together with leaders of the Romanian national movement in Transylvania, he was imprisoned at Szeged;[1] his increased political activity had led to a charge of "crimes against the interest of the army and the state".

He also worked as Transylvania editor of the Bucharest newspapers Adevărul, Dimineața, Libertatea and of the magazines Lumea nouă, Pagini literare and Societatea de mâine (the last from 1924 to 1945); and was a contributor to Luceafărul.

[10] Due to his left-wing views, he was invited to join Lumea nouă in 1945 by Lothar Rădăceanu; there, he edited the foreign news and wrote about the situation in Transylvania.

[11] Among the pseudonyms he used were L. Ardelean, I. Bobei, Dumitru Corvinul, Euphraste, Traian Huniade, I. Poenaru, Dr. Titus Popa, Teofrast, Theophraste, I. Săgeată, and Horia Trandafir.

[11] In 1944, after the Coup against Romania's pro-Axis dictator, he edited the socialist Poporul newspaper from Brașov, intending to use it to reorganize the country along social democratic lines.