OVIDIU GRITTA: REDESCHIDEREA UNEI BIOGRAFII
Ovidiu Gritta: Revisiting a Biography

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a new foray into the biography of Ovidiu Gritta. He was involved in the organisation of the National Assembly of 1 December 1918, which decided the union of Transylvania with Romania. Subsequently, during the interwar period, he was in charge of police headquarters in several important Romanian cities, serving for a period as prefect of Turda County. The author of this article has dedicated several studies to him in recent years, and now presents a series of new information relevant to the biography of this character. For example, an unknown episode is that of the trial in which he was involved in 1908 and as a result of which he was sentenced to six months in prison (non executed, in the end) by the Hungarian state for an article published in the Romanian magazine Țara noastră. Another interesting episode presented in this article is that of his seizure in 1924, while he was at the rectorate of the University of Cluj, as head of the local police, after he had put down an anti-Semitic demonstration of Cluj students. Finally, no less interesting is a letter written by a fellow prisoner (Ovidiu Gritta was imprisoned after the Communist takeover of Romania), which speaks of Ovidiu Gritta's personality and condition shortly before his death.

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