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  Aron Pumnul was borne as a serf soon at 27 November 1818 in Cuciulata.
After 4 years in Odorhei he continues his education at Blaj and Cluj where graduates in Philosophy. In 1843 became a philosophy teacher in Blaj and in the same year is send as scholar at Vienna "Santa Barbara" Theological Institute.
At his return in 1846 became again philosophy teacher in Blaj where he teaches the nationalism idea with the theories about the individual and national natural rights useful for the Romanian people freedom.
Aron Pumnul cooperates near to Timotei Cipariu with he found "Organul luminarii" paper, a church, political and literary paper named in 1848 "Organul National".
Another paper made with Timotei Cipariu was "Invatatorul poporului". In that paper Aron Pumnul begun to publish about the Romanian people life asking the Romanians to "know and cherish themselves" which means to be aware of their nationality and their rights as a people. This work was stoped by the Hungarian authority.
During the events from 1848 in Transilvania Aron Pumnul has an important part in organizing the first popular meeting in 18-30 April that preceded the national meeting from May on the Liberty Camp.
The Hungarian authorities followed the Romanian revolutionary leaders that's why Aron Pumnul must return in his borne place Cuciulata where he organized together with the local priest Sofronie Maga the Romanian resistance.
Because he was still followed he must pass to Walachia and still far away to Bucovina at the end of November 1848. Here he teaches the Romanian literature and grammar and published at "Bucovina" paper.
The Romanians from Fagaras County, using their right get in the revolution to elect Romanian political leaders, elect him as "senator" in the county district proving their special cherishes for his personality.
His dearest wish to return in Transilvania was impossible because he must stay in Bucovina for the rest of his life. Here he follows closely the Transilvanian political life by letters and newspaper article.
Aron Pumnul activity as a Cernauti teacher is the most known life part by contemporary documents but his activity as a historian is less known because most of the manuscripts and documents find in Vienna and Budapest.