Iuliu Coste (26 April

1876 Events January–March * January 1 ** The Reichsbank opens in Berlin. ** The Bass Brewery Red Triangle becomes the world's first registered trademark symbol. * February 2 – The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs i ...

Nădlac Nădlac (; sk, Nadlak; hu, Nagylak) is a town in western Romania, Arad County. A former part of the town lies across the border with Hungary; this village is called Nagylak. An international border town, Nădlac is the main border crossing into ...

, jud. Arad,

Banat Banat (, ; hu, Bánság; sr, Банат, Banat) is a geographical and historical region that straddles Central and Eastern Europe and which is currently divided among three countries: the eastern part lies in western Romania (the counties of T ...

, – 8 December

1967 Events January * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 5 ** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and ...

, Timisoara,

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

) was a Romanian attorney and politician.

Life

Iuliu Coste attended primary school in his hometown and high school in

Makó Makó (, german: Makowa, yi, מאַקאָווע Makowe, ro, Macău or , sk, Makov) is a town in Csongrád County, in southeastern Hungary, from the Romanian border. It lies on the Maros River. Makó is home to 23,272 people and it has an area ...

and Chisinau-Cris and studied Law in

Oradea Oradea (, , ; german: Großwardein ; hu, Nagyvárad ) is a city in Romania, located in Crișana, a sub-region of Transylvania. The county seat, seat of Bihor County, Oradea is one of the most important economic, social and cultural centers in the ...

and

Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...

. In 1899 he passed the bar exam and in 1903 started his own office in Arad. Later he established an office in

Ciacova Ciacova ( hu, Csák; german: Tschakowa; sr, Чаково, Čakovo; tr, Çakova) is a town in Timiș County, Romania. It administers four villages: Cebza, Macedonia, Obad and Petroman. When it was declared a town in 2004, the villages of Gad and G ...

, until he moved to Timisoara in 1921. In 1916 he was drafted into the KuK Infantry Regiment Nr. 61 in Timisoara for a year. In 1918 he was one of the delegates for Ciacova for the Great National Assembly of Alba Iulia on 1 December. The delegation he was part of, failed to reach Alba Iulia because the group was arrested at the station in Timisoara by Serbian military forces and detained until 2 December. After the union of

Transsylvania Transylvania ( ro, Ardeal or ; hu, Erdély; german: Siebenbürgen) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and south its natural border is the Carpathian Mountains, and to the west the ...

with Romania, Coste joined the National Liberal Party and established the Timisoara chapter of the party in 1930. He held the position of

prefect Prefect (from the Latin ''praefectus'', substantive adjectival form of ''praeficere'': "put in front", meaning in charge) is a magisterial title of varying definition, but essentially refers to the leader of an administrative area. A prefect's ...

of Timiș-Torontal twice, from 4 February 1922-4 July 1925 and 27 June 1927-15 November 1928. After the establishment of the royal dictatorship by King Carol II in 1938, he became president of the Timisoara chapter of the

National Renaissance Front The National Renaissance Front ( ro, Frontul Renașterii Naționale, FRN; also translated as ''Front of National Regeneration'', ''Front of National Rebirth'', ''Front of National Resurrection'', or ''Front of National Renaissance'') was a Romani ...

(Romanian: Frontul Renașterii Naționale, FRN). He practiced law until his retirement in 1947. For his merits for the community, he was awarded the Order of the Romanian Crown. His life in communist Romania was difficult: in 1952 he was arrested as an " enemy of the state" and released after 9 months in detention. He subsequently lost his pension. His son

Brutus Coste Brutus Coste (10 February 1910 – 3 September 1984) was a Romanian diplomat whose service was cut short by the Second World War and who spent most of the rest of his life as an anti-communist campaigner in the United States. When U.S. govern ...

was a diplomat who had

emigrated Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere (to permanently leave a country). Conversely, immigration describes the movement of people into one country from another (to permanentl ...

to the United States in 1947.

Family

Iuliu Coste and his wife Zoe had two sons, Brutus and

Zeno Zeno ( grc, Ζήνων) may refer to: People * Zeno (name), including a list of people and characters with the name Philosophers * Zeno of Elea (), philosopher, follower of Parmenides, known for his paradoxes * Zeno of Citium (333 – 264 BC), ...

, and two daughters, Zoe and Hortensia.

External links

Iuliu Coste
in the „Lucian Blaga" Central University Library of Cluj-Napoca
Biography in Romanian

The Coste family in the 1930s

Literature

Dumitru Tomoni :REGIONALISMUL CULTURAL ÎN BANATUL INTERBELIC. ÎNFIINŢAREA ŞI ORGANIZAREA REGIONALEI „ASTRA BĂNĂŢEANĂ" Transilvania: revistă lunară de cultură, 1918-12-01 Maria Berenyi: Cultură românească la Budapesta în secolul al XIX-lea, 2000 Cornel Sigmirean: Elită și destin național. Bursierii „Gojdu” în perioada interbelică. Elite and national destiny. “Gojdu” scholarships in the interwar period, 2019

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Coste, Iuliu 1876 births 1967 deaths Prefects of Romania National Liberal Party (Romania) politicians 20th-century Romanian lawyers People from Nădlac Romanian Austro-Hungarians Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I Delegates of the Great National Assembly of Alba Iulia