Ioan Lupaș

Ioan Lupaş (9 August 1880 – 3 July 1967) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian historian, academic, politician, Orthodox theologian and priest. He was a member of the Romanian Academy.

Born in Săliște (near Sibiu, Transylvania, at the time part of Austria-Hungary), Lupaş attended between 1892 and 1900 the State School in Sibiu and the Andrei Șaguna Orthodox School in Braşov. He studied Philosophy and Literature at the University of Budapest, graduating in 1904, and received his PhD from the University of Berlin (1905) with the thesis The Romanian Orthodox Church in Transylvania and the Communion with Rome in the 18th Century. Between 1905 and 1909, Lupaş taught Church History and Romanian History at the "Andreian" Institute of Theology in Sibiu and attended Theology courses.

During his studies he made his debut in journalism and co-founded the Romanian-language Luceafărul magazine. Due to his firm stance in favor of political rights for the Romanians in Transylvania, Lupaş was imprisoned for three months in Szeged in 1907, forced out of the Institute in 1909, and appointed priest to the Sălişte parish.

The Romanian Academy elected him an associate member in 1914 and full member in 1916, at Nicolae Iorga's suggestion.

After Romania's entry in World War I on the Allied side, Lupaş was exiled to Sopron County (western Hungary) and placed under house arrest. In 1918, he was elected representative for Sălişte in the Transylvanian National Assembly that declared the Union of Transylvania with the Kingdom of Romania.

Starting with 1919 he became professor at the University of Cluj, teaching Modern History and Transylvanian History until 1946, and in 1920, together with Alexandru Lepădatu, co-founded the National History Institute, located also in Cluj; he also taught Church History at the Theological Academy. Lupaş was elected president of the History Section of ASTRA and, between 1932 and 1935, president of the History Section of the Romanian Academy.

In the interwar period, Ioan Lupaş served in the Chamber of Deputies for several mandates, and as Minister of Health and Social Security in the Alexandru Averescu cabinet (1926–1927), as well as Minister of Culture and Arts in the Octavian Goga cabinet (1937 – 1938).

Due to his political activity, he was arrested by the communist regime on 5 May 1950 and detained at Sighet prison until 5 May 1955.

• Câteva pagini din trecutul comunei Sălişte
• Schiţă istorică, Sibiu, 1903
• Şovinismul confesional în istoriografia românească ardeleană. Studiu critic, Sibiu, 1903
• Biserica ortodoxă din Transilvania şi unirea religioasă din veacul al XVIII-lea, Budapest, 1904
• Contribuţii la istoria culturală şi politică a epocii lui Şaguna, Sibiu, 1907
• Mitropolitul Andrei Şaguna. Scriere comemorativă la serbarea centenară a naşterii lui, Sibiu, 1909
• Viaţa unei mame credincioase: Anastasia Şaguna, Sibiu, 1912
• Misiunea episcopilor Gherasim Adamovici şi Ioan Bob la Curtea din Viena în anul 1792, Sibiu, 1912
• Viaţa şi faptele lui Andrei Şaguna, mitropolitul Transilvaniei, Bucharest, 1913
• Principele ardelean Acaţiu Barciai şi mitropolitul Sava Brancovici. 1658-1661, Bucharest, 1913
• Contribuţiuni la istoria românilor ardeleni. 1780-1792, Bucharest, 1915
• Episcopul Vasile Moga şi profesorul Gheorghe Lazăr, Bucharest, 1915
• Din istoricul ziaristicii româneşti, Arad, 1916, 78 p.
• Luptători pentru lumină, Arad, 1916
• 12 peţitori ai episcopiei transilvane vacante de la 1796 la 1810, Bucharest, 1916
• Istoria bisericească a românilor ardeleni, Sibiu, 1918
• Mitropolitul Andrei Şaguna, Sibiu, 1921
• Andrei Şaguna şi conducătorii "Asociaţiei transilvane" (1861-1922)", Bucharest, 1923
• Din activitatea ziaristică a lui Andrei Mureşanu, Bucharest, 1925
• Contribuţii la istoria ziaristicii româneşti ardelene, Sibiu, 1926
• Lecturi din izvoarele istorice române, Cluj, 1928
• Istoria unirii românilor, Bucharest, 1937
• Paralelism istoric, Bucharest, 1937
• Realităţi istorice în voivodatul Transilvaniei în secolele XII-XVI, Bucharest, 1938
• Doctorul Ioan Piuariu Molnar. Viaţa şi opera lui, 1749-1815, Bucharest, 1939
• Emanuil Gojdu, 1802-1870. Originea şi opera sa, Bucharest, 1940
• Documente istorice transilvane , Cluj, 1940
• La Transilvania nel quadro geografico e nel ritmo storico rumeno, Bucharest, 1942
• Zur Geschichte der Rumänen. Aufsätze und Vorträge, Sibiu, 1943
• O carte de istorie bisericească ilustrată, Bucharest, 1933
• Manual de istorie a românilor pentru clasa VIII-a secundară, Sibiu, 1944
• Manual de istoria Bisericii Române pentru clasa a IV-a de liceu, Craiova, 1944