Ion I. Lapedatu started 1883 the primary school in the village in which he was born; then in Brașov; he finished it 1888 in Iași, where his mother remarried after the death of his father.
Same year, he obtains a scholarship from the "Gojdu Foundation"[REF] and is admitted to the Oriental Commercial Academy and the Law and Political Sciences School of the Budapest University; he attends in parallel the Seminar for higher commercial school professors [REF].