IORGU G. TOMA (1871–1935) – 150 DE ANI DE LA NAȘTERE
150 Years since the Birth of Iorgu G. Toma (1871–1935)

Summary/Abstract: A personality of cultural-national and political life in Bukovina, Iorgu G. Toma was born on January 16, 1871, in Vama, Câmpulung County, in the family of Gavril Toma, mayor of Vama, and Ana Lupașcu. After graduating from primary school at Vama, he attended the Greek-Orthodox High School in Suceava (1882–1891) and then the Faculty of Law of the University of Chernivtsi (1891–1896). He had several jobs: judge, court adviser at the Court in Rădăuți, member and secretary of the Court of Suceava, adviser to the Court of Appeal in Chernivtsi. Iorgu G. Toma became involved in cultural-national and social activities, campaigning for the rights of Romanians in Bukovina. After the outbreak of the First World War, Iorgu G. Toma fled to Romania supporting propaganda activity in order to enter Romania into the war with the Entente Powers, whose victory could have guaranteed the realization of the Romanians’ national aspirations. In the spring of 1919, Iorgu G. Toma returned to Bukovina and became involved its political life. He was several times deputy in the Romanian Parliament, contributing to the law-making procedures intended to unify and integrate the province into the Romanian space. As an intellectual born in a rural environment, Iorgu G. Toma also contributed to the cultural and material development of his native town. He passed away in Câmpulung Moldovenesc on January 13, 1935. Today, one of the six sights in the village of Vama is the villa where Iorgu G. Toma used to live, which is named after him and transformed into an ethnographic museum. The secondary school “Iorgu G. Toma” in Vama also bears his name.

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