{"id":"stefan-foris","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/stefan-foris","language":"en","name":"Ștefan Foriș","name_en":"Ștefan Foriș","name_ne":null,"description":"Hungarian politician from Romania (1892-1946)","headline":"Hungarian politician from Romania (1892-1946)","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Ștefan Foriș was a Hungarian and Romanian communist journalist who served as general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party between December 1940 and April 1944. Born a Transylvanian Csángó and an Austro-Hungarian subject, he saw action with the Hungarian Landwehr throughout World War I. While training in mathematics at Eötvös Loránd University, he affiliated with the Galileo Circle and, moving to the far-left, entered the Hungarian Communist Party in late 1918. During the brief existence of a Hungarian Soviet Republic, he joined the war against Romania (1919), but subsequently opted to settle in the Romanian Kingdom, at Brașov. Foriș emerged as a local leader of the Socialist Party, largely failing at convincing his subordinates to join the PCR upon its creation (1921). He took up underground work even before the PCR was formally outlawed, while establishing his public profile as an accountant and a correspondent for moderate left-wing newspapers—including Adevărul and Facla.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"9 May 1892","date":"1892-05-09"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q838826#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Tărlungeni","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15279391"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q838826#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"1946","date":"1946"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q838826#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Bucharest","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19660"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q838826#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Romania","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q218"},{"text":"Hungary","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q838826#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"journalist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1930187"},{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"},{"text":"activist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15253558"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q838826#P106"}},{"key":"party","label":"Political party","values":[{"text":"Romanian Communist Party","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q256121"},{"text":"Communist Party of Hungary","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q537649"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q838826#P102"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"Eötvös Loránd University","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q390287","end":"1914"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q838826#P69"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"Secretary General of the Romanian Communist Party (1940–1944)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134101427","start":"1940-12","end":"1944-04-04"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q838826#P39"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C8%98tefan_Fori%C8%99","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q838826"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Ștefan Foriș born?","a":"Ștefan Foriș was born on 9 May 1892 in Tărlungeni."},{"q":"What positions has Ștefan Foriș held?","a":"Positions held by Ștefan Foriș include: Secretary General of the Romanian Communist Party (1940–1944)."},{"q":"Where did Ștefan Foriș study?","a":"Ștefan Foriș was educated at Eötvös Loránd University."}],"related":[{"name":"Nicolae Ceaușescu","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/nicolae-ceausescu"},{"name":"Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/gheorghe-gheorghiu-dej"},{"name":"Emil Bodnăraș","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/emil-bodnaras"},{"name":"Constantin Pîrvulescu","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/constantin-pirvulescu"},{"name":"Elek Köblös","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/elek-koblos"},{"name":"Gheorghe Cristescu","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/gheorghe-cristescu"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/stefan-foris-2decd07f1d.jpg","width":500,"height":728,"license":"Public domain","credit":"Romanian state authorities","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stefan-foris.png"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Ștefan Foriș","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C8%98tefan_Fori%C8%99","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q838826","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q838826","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Stefan-foris.png by Romanian state authorities (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stefan-foris.png","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Ștefan Foriș, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Stefan-foris.png — Romanian state authorities, Public domain.","cite":"\"Ștefan Foriș\". DigiNepal. Last updated 4 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/stefan-foris. Retrieved 5 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-04T08:54:49Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-05","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/stefan-foris","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/stefan-foris","ne":null}}