The Vice-prefect of the Third Field Legion, Florian Lăscudean (?-1849): a Forgotten Martyr of the 1848-1849 Revolution from Transylvania Cover Image

Viceprefectul Legiunii a III-a de Câmpie, Florian Lăscudean (?-1849): un martir uitat al Revoluției de la 1848-1849 din Transilvania
The Vice-prefect of the Third Field Legion, Florian Lăscudean (?-1849): a Forgotten Martyr of the 1848-1849 Revolution from Transylvania

Author(s): Nicolae Dumbrăvescu
Subject(s): History, Political history, Social history, Modern Age, 19th Century
Published by: Editura Altip
Keywords: Vice-prefect; Revolution; Third Field Legion; Martyr; Youth; Blaj;

Summary/Abstract: Through this study we aim at bringing into the historians' and the amateurs' attention the biography of the Third Field Legion’s vice-prefect Florian Lăscudean, originary from Cucerdea, Mureș County. He studied at Blaj where he would be surprised by the 1848-1849 Revolution from Transylvania. He got involved actively in the revolutionary events, taking part into the Great National Assembly from Blaj hold on the 3rd/15th of May. From the month of September 1848, Florian Lăscudean hold the office of vice-prefect of the Third Field Legion. After the losses scored by the Third Field Legion Florian Lăscudean found a refuge in Ioan Axente Sever's camp at the foot of the Apuseni Mountains. Together with his soldiers he took part into the fights near the fortress of Alba-Iulia where he was seriously injured. He died few days later.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 117-125
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Romanian