ISTORIA MEDIEVALĂ A BANATULUI REFLECTATĂ ÎN MONOGRAFIA ÎNCHINATĂ TIMIȘOAREI DE CĂTRE EMANUIL UNGURIANU
THE MEDIEVAL HISTORY OF BANAT REFLECTED IN THE MONOGRAPHY OF TIMISOARA BY EMANUIL UNGURIANU

Summary/Abstract: Emanoil Ungurianu was born on 21 December 1845 at Satchinez, Timiş county. After finishing secondary school in Timişoara (1868) he gratuated from the Law School in Budapest (1872). From 1874 he worked as a lawyer in Timişoara. Between 1885 and1896 he was the bank manager of ‘Timişana’ Bank of Timişoara. Between 1885 and 1897 he conducted Alumneul Românesc. He sustained many Romanian cultural enterprises of the time (eg.: a founding member of Muzeul de Istorie şi Etnografie of Sibiu; a founding member of ASTRA; a founding member of ’Societatea literară Petru Maior’; a founding member of ’Asociaţia pentru cultura poporului român’ of Arad; a founding member of ’Reuniunea învăţătorilor români din Banat’, belonging to the Diocese of Arad; a founding member of ’Reuniunea femeilor române’ of Sibiu; a founding member of ’Reuniunea femeilor române’ of Timişoara; a founding member of ’Reuniunea femeilor române’ of Arad; a founding member of ’Societea pentru sprijinirea teatrului român din Ungaria şi Ardeal’; member of Casina Militară Timişoara; member of ’Societea Istoriceă şi Arheologică Timişoara’; member of ’România Jună’, the literary society of Vienna; member of ’Societatea ziariştilor români din Ardeal şi Banat’; member of ’Societea de gimnastică’ of Timişoara etc.). He was the director of Despărţământul Timişoara al Astrei, one of the founders of the museum of this institution in Sibiu as well as of ‘Dreptatea’, a newspaper printed in Timişoara. He made efforts for the foundation of the Trade Academy of Timişoara. After the Great Union he founded approximately 100 branches of the National Education House. In order to sustain the cultural institution financially, he set up the ‘Emanuil Ungurianu’ foundation which had a found of nearly 500.000 golden crowns which represented the whole inheritance bequeathed to the Diocese of Arad for this purpose. As a member of the 104 Altarul Banatului Romanian National Party, Ungurianu was an active militant for the national emancipation of the Romanians living in the Austro-Hungarian Empire as well as for the realization of the Great Union. On 1 June 1931, the monument dedicated to Emanuil Ungurianu (the first Romanian monumenterected in Timişoara) was finished and was inaugurated on 28 June the same year. The monument can be admired in front of the school which bears its name in the vicinity of Huniade Castle (the Museum of the Banat). He died on 25 March 1929.

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