At the eastern end of the Strada Iosif Vulcan is a bust of Iosif Vulcan on a
pedestal with his name on it. The bust seems to be of stone. Apart from the
memorial and the street, that is named after him, there is also the "Muzeul
Memorial Iosif Vulcan" (Iosif Vulcan Memorial Museum)
"Iosif Vulcan
Iosif Vulcan (March 31, 1841 – September 8, 1907)
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.
Biography
Early life
Vulcan was born in Pusztahollód, Bihar County, in the Kingdom of
Hungary, now Holod, Bihor County, Romania. [...]
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. [...] Vulcan
often spent time in Létavértes during his student days, writing his first
love poems there, about a sweetheart who lived in the town.
'Familia' and later activity
He launched 'Familia' literary magazine in Pest-Buda in 1865 and
would lead it for some forty years. In 1866, he published his first volume
of poetry. [...] He married Aurelia Popovici in 1871; the couple led a happy
life together and she inspired a number of his poems. [...] In 1877, he
collaborated on a Hungarian-language anthology of Romanian folk poetry,
contributing twelve ballads, sixteen romances and a preface on the general
subject. Over the course of the 1870s, he continued publishing short
stories, novels, travel accounts and a comedy play. [...] During the 1890s,
encouraged by the reception of his first play, he published a number of
other comedies. Against the backdrop of the Transylvanian Memorandum trial
and rising national sentiment, he wrote a historical tragedy about the young
Stephen III of Moldavia. [...]"
Source and further information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iosif_Vulcan