DR. AUREL ISAC – UN APĂRĂTOR AL CAUZEI ROMÂNILOR ȊN TRANSILVANIA
A DEFENDER OF THE CAUSE OF ROMANIANS IN TRANSYLVANIA

Summary/Abstract: Dr. Aurel Isac is a decisive profile that marked important moments in the history of Transylvania. The lawyer had been actively involved in various associations and cultural societies, he had also been involved in the political scene of the time, but he was also a defender of the Romanian culture. A famous cultural personality of Cluj, dr. Aurel Isac, is known first of all as a noted defender in the Memorandum Process, a process that bears the mark of the integrity of his social and political conception. It should be noted that dr. Aurel Isac was a determined memorandist and a fearless fighter for national liberation. He was a dean at the Cluj Bar, a senator, a member of the Association for Romanian Literature and of the Romanian People’s Culture, a patron of the Romanian Sodal (Workers) Meeting in Cluj. On 7th September 1931, the General Congress of the Attorneys of Great Romania, gathered in Iaşi, unanimously acclaimed him as Honorary President of the Lawyers’ Union in Romania. Aurel Isac played an important role in Cluj life, both at the end of the 19th century and in the 20th century. He became the symbol of an epoch, his name is related both to the Memorandum Process and to the ideology of the Romanian policy in Transylvania. By his example he gave us a priceless weapon, that is, the unity that any nation needs. Dr. Aurel Isac remains thus a personality worthy of high respect. He strongly believed in the triumph of the Romanian nation, he supported various cultural activities, gave lectures to workers to educate them in the Romanian spirit. During his studies in Vienna, he met Mihai Eminescu, which fact made him cherish and pass this affection on to his children. His admiration for Mihai Eminescu was later experienced by his third son Emil Isac, who was also a poet. He was a man of his time through the dedication to all problems in which he was involved. He was burried with military honours and by two bishops: dr. Iuliu Hossu, a Greek-Catholic and Nicolae Ivan, an Orthodox. The funeral procession left Aurel Isac’s house, passing by the Memorandum Street and, for a minute it stopped in front of the current Etnographic Museum of Transylvania building in which the Process of Memorandum took place, in 1894, where Aurel Isac pleaded as a defender of George Pop de Băseşti. He is burried in the Central Cemetery of Cluj.

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