Early years He was born in Frâua (called
Axente Sever since 1931), the son of Iacob Baciu and Ana, née Maxim. From 1831 to 1835 he studied in
Blaj. He then returned to pursue his studies at the Gheorghe Lazăr Gymnasium in
Sibiu, after which he returned in 1840 to Blaj to study theology and philosophy, having
Simion Bărnuțiu as professor. He later went to
Bucharest, where he was a teacher of Latin and Romanian language at a private school and at the
Saint Sava College.
The Revolutions of 1848 When the
Wallachian Revolution broke out in 1848, he served as propaganda officer for the revolutionaries in
Ilfov County, and then was sent to
Dolj County to restore the state's authority. Arrested for this massacre in late 1849, he stood trial at Sibiu,
Bistrița, and Cluj. Together with other commanders (chiefly, Iancu and ), he wrote reports on these events (published in German in newspapers from
Vienna in 1850–1853), in which he argued that the Romanians in Transylvania were loyal to the
Habsburg Emperor, and that they fought with Hungarian troops because the government in
Budapest did not recognize the rights of the Romanians as a nation. Starting in 1881, Axente Sever was part of the
ASTRA leadership in Sibiu. He moved to
Brașov in 1892. His health began to decline in late 1900, and he was hospitalized in 1904. He died two years later, and was taken by train to Blaj, where he was buried in the cemetery next to the
Church of the Holy Archangels. ==Legacy==