Ioan Popovici (brigadier general)

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Ioan Popovici (23 August 1865 – 1953) was a Romanian brigadier general. He studied at the Military Infantry and Cavalry School in Bucharest from 1885 to 1887. He rose through the ranks: sublieutenant (1887), lieutenant (1890), captain (1894), major (1904), lieutenant colonel (1909), colonel (1912), and brigadier general (1916). In World War I he served with the general staff at the army headquarters. He was nicknamed "Epure" to distinguish him from another general with the same name. After the Communists came to power, he was arrested in 1948 at age 83 and died in Sighet Prison in 1953.