page_title: Iosif Vulcan
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Iosif Vulcan / Biography / Early life
caption_attribution_description: Română: Colegiul Național "Mihai Eminescu", fosta mănăstire și Gimnaziu Premonstratens și Academie de DreptMagyar: Premontrei Főgimnázium (hátulról) - NagyváradEnglish: "Mihai Eminescu" High School (rear view from afar) - Oradea This is a photo of a historic monument in județul Bihor, classified with number BH-II-a-B-01041
context_page_description: Iosif Vulcan was an ethnic Romanian Austro-Hungarian magazine editor, poet, playwright, novelist and cultural figure. He founded the literary magazine Familia, which he published for four decades.
context_section_description: Vulcan was born in Pusztahollód, Bihar County, in the Kingdom of Hungary, now Holod, Bihor County, Romania. His father Nicolae was the local Greek-Catholic parish priest from 1831 to 1844. Nicolae was a nephew of Bishop Samuil Vulcan and was born in Șinca Veche to a family originating in Wallachia. His mother Victoria (Viktória) Irinyi came from an old family of Romanian origins called Irimie before its name was Magyarized. The daughter of a schoolmaster from Létavértes (Leta Mare), her brother was János Irinyi. Vulcan's parents had six children, five of whom died early. His father was transferred to the Létavértes parish in 1844 before being named canon in Oradea (Nagyvárad) in 1879. Vulcan was attached to his parents as well as to Létavértes, where his mother is buried. He attended primary school there from 1847 to 1851, returning for his high school and university vacations. In later years, he came back for leisure as his busy schedule permitted.
  He attended the Premonstratensian high school in Oradea from 1851 to 1859, followed by a Law degree from the University of Pest. In 1853, while in high school,  he helped start a magazine that appeared until 1870. There are poems of his written in Pest in 1859, when he was eighteen. He became involved with Gura Satului ("The Voice of the Village") in Pest in 1861 and thereafter with Concordia and Aurora Română. Vulcan often spent time in Létavértes during his student days, writing his first love poems there, about a sweetheart who lived in the town.
caption: Vulcan's high school, now the Mihai Eminescu National College
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