ROMANIANS AND HUNGARIANS IN A POLITICAL DISPUTE OVER THE IDEA OF NATION: DUMITRU BRĂTIANU AND DANIEL IRANYI ÎN „LA PRESS” NEWSPAPER (1851)

Remus TANASĂ Universitatea „Al.I. Cuza” din Iaşi (România)

Abstract

In June 1851, Dumitru Brătianu had joined Giuseppe Mazzini’s European Democratic Committee of London. The purpose of the Romanians was to take part together with the other nationalities at the European revolution against the authority traditionally exercised by the dynastic governments, especially against the Habsburg and the Tsarist Empires, in favor of a national and institutional self-determination. In this context, a polemic with the Hungarian exile was inevitable, since the leaders of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 were also in exile and were too aiming for national self-determination. A dispute over the idea of nation took place in the pages of the French newspaper „La Presse”, between Dumitru Brătianu and Daniel Iranyi, the former secretary of the Public Salvation Committee of Pest. Keywords: Forty-Eighters, exile, Transylvania, nationality, liberty, press, Europe.