Coriolan Suciu

Coriolan Suciu (19 December 1895–27 January 1967) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian teacher and historian, and a priest in the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church.

Biography

Born in Ciugudu de Jos, Alba County, in the Transylvania region, he attended gymnasium from 1906 to 1914 and studied theology from 1914 to 1917 in nearby Blaj. He then studied history and Latin at Budapest and Cluj from 1917 to 1919, attended specialty courses in Paris from 1921 to 1922 and, following the union of Transylvania with Romania and the creation of Superior Dacia University, obtained a doctorate there in 1922. In Blaj, he taught at Saint Basil High School from 1919, was director of the apprentices' school from 1929 to 1937, becoming head of the normal school in 1937 and holding a similar position at Saint Basil from 1941 to 1945.