Eroism la românii ardeleni în primul război mondial
Heroism and the Transylvanian Romanians in the First World War

Summary/Abstract: The present study discusses the perceptions on the hero during and after the First World War in official Romanian discourses (from Transylvania and from Romania), regarding the Romanian soldiers from Transylvania who were involved in the war, either fighting for their own country Austria-Hungary, either for their future country Romania.These are the years when the concept of heroism receives firm and precise connotations. Being a hero comprises a full set of civic and national values that animate the armed man. Generally speaking, war has brought a radical change of register regarding the identification and praise of heroes, regardless of the place where it caused casualties. With Word War I, hero conceptualization is complete. The Romanian space proposes a formula adapted to our own realities, marked by the evolution of war and by its final result, as the hero becomes the creator of “the union”, fulfilling the national dream. In this formula, it became difficult for the Transylvanian soldiers who fought for Austria-Hungary to be seen as heroes.

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