Editing Avram Iancu (section)

== Early life ==
Avram Iancu was born in [[Avram Iancu, Alba|Vidra de Sus]] (currently [[Avram Iancu, Alba|Avram Iancu, Alba County]]), [[Principality of Transylvania (1711–1867)|Transylvania]], then part of the [[Austrian Empire]] into a family of peasants that had been [[emancipated]] from [[serfdom]]. His father was Alisandru Iancu<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iuNKAQAAIAAJ&q=%22avram+iancu%22++Alisandru+Iancu|title=Avram Iancu în tradița poporului român|first=Florian|last=Dudaș|date=10 March 1989|publisher=Editura Facla|isbn=9789733600664|via=Google Books}}</ref> (1787–1855) and his mother was Maria Gligor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xCAKAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Maria+Gligor%22|title=Din istoria Transilvaniei|first1=Ioan|last1=Lupaș|first2=Marina|last2=Vlasiu|first3=Florin|last3=Constantiniu|date=10 March 1988|publisher=Editura Eminescu|via=Google Books}}</ref> He had one elder brother, Ion (born 1822), who became a priest.

Iancu's grandfather was Gheorghe Iancu<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=%22Gheorghe+Iancu%22+%22avram+iancu%22#tbm=bks&q=%22este+bunicul+s%C4%83u,+b%C4%83tr%C3%AEnul+Gheorghe+Iancu%22|title="Gheorghe Iancu" "avram iancu" – Google Search|website=www.google.com}}</ref> (deceased before 1812), who had four girls and three boys, including Alisandru. Little is known about Iancu's childhood. Local tradition holds that he had a typical [[Țara Moților|moț]] character, joyful and witty, and that he had a musical talent, playing the leaf, alphorn, flute, and violin.

Iancu attended primary school in his village, in the [[Avram Iancu, Alba|Târsa]] hamlet, and then at [[Poiana Vadului|Neagra]] (now Poiana Vadului). He later attended school in [[Câmpeni|Câmpeni, Alba County]], from where he graduated at age 13.

After this, he went to [[Zlatna]], where he studied in a Hungarian school, in the [[Latin]] language, as there were no Romanian schools in this area. His teachers were Iozephus Stanken (1837–1838), Gregorius Iakabus (1838–1839) and Ludovicus Kovács (1839–1840 and 1840–1841). He graduated at age 17. He studied humanities from 1841, in the [[Piarists|Piarist College]] of [[Cluj-Napoca|Cluj]], graduating law school.