Iorgu Toma
austro Hungarian-Romania journalist and politician
Iorgu G. Toma (January 16, 1871–January 13, 1935) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian journalist, translator and politician.
Born in Vama, just east of Câmpulung Moldovenesc in the Duchy of Bukovina, his parents were Gavril and Ana (née Lupașcu). From 1882 to 1891, he attended the Greek-Orthodox Gymnasium in Suceava. In 1896, he graduated from the law faculty of Czernowitz University. After an apprenticeship in Suceava, he served as a judge in Rădăuți (1899-1906). He became secretary of the Suceava tribunal in 1906. He entered the Romanian National Party of Bukovina (1905) and the Christian Social Party of Bukovina (1908). He fled to the Romanian Old Kingdom during World War I, helping found Revista Bucovinei in Bucharest in 1916. The Romanian government sent him as a volunteer officer to Russia in 1917, in order to bring back imprisoned Romanian soldiers from Transylvania and Bukovina, the Romanian Volunteer Corps in Russia. As a result of the Russian Revolution, he retreated to Siberia, whence he managed to reach Romania.
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