George Șerban

Gheorghe Șerban (25 June 1954 – 31 December 1998) was a

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and ...

n journalist, politician and writer, best known for his role in the writing of the ''

Proclamation of Timișoara The Proclamation of Timișoara was a thirteen-point written document, drafted on March 11, 1990, by the Timișoara participants in Romania's Romanian Revolution of 1989, 1989 Revolution, and partly issued in reaction to the January 1990 Mineriad, f ...

'' in the wake of the 1989 Revolution. Șerban was born in

Buzău The city of Buzău (formerly spelled ''Buzeu'' or ''Buzĕu''; ) is the county seat of Buzău County, Romania, in the historical region of Muntenia. It lies near the right bank of the Buzău River, between the south-eastern curvature of the Carp ...

. Before 1989, he taught

Marxism Marxism is a left-wing to far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand class relations and social conflict and a dialectical ...

at the

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. After taking part in the Revolution, he became a member of the ''Timișoara Society'' and a journalist for ''Timișoara'' newspaper. In 1994, he joined the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNȚ-CD) and was later elected to the Chamber of Deputies for

Timiș County Timiș () is a county ('' județ'') of western Romania on the border with Hungary and Serbia, in the historical region of Banat, with the county seat at Timișoara. It is the westernmost and the largest county in Romania in terms of land area. T ...

. {{DEFAULTSORT:Serban, Gheorghe 1954 births 1998 deaths People from Buzău People of the Romanian Revolution Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party politicians Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania) Academic staff of the Politehnica University of Timișoara Romanian journalists Romanian Marxists Romanian political scientists 20th-century journalists 20th-century political scientists