Timotei Cipariu

In 1827 he became a priest, from 1842 he was a canon, and later the chapter prefect of the Archdiocese of Alba Iulia and Făgăraș, based in Blaj where he lived for most of his life.

[2] These books were especially procured for him by his friend from Bucharest, the bookseller Iosif Romanov, and by his company's representatives in Constantinople and Cairo.

In October 1948, the communist regime imposed, according to the order from Moscow, the outlawing of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church and the assimilation of its believers into the Orthodox Church, confiscating the Cipariu Library (bequeathed to the Bishopric of Blaj) and illegally placing it in the Library's inventory Cluj Branch of the Romanian Academy.

Timotei Cipariu was one of the pioneers of Romanian journalism in Transylvania through the periodicals founded and managed by him: He collaborated at Paper for the Mind, Heart and Literature in Brașov with studies, essays, poems and translations.

In the political realm, he was among the activists for the rights of the Romanian people in Transylvania, being one of the ten secretaries of the Blaj National Assembly in 1848.