Royal Hungarian Locotenential Council, Records from 1861, Department V Elementary Schools

Collection description

Holding institution (official language):: Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára

Title:: Royal Hungarian Locotenential Council, Records from 1861, Department V Elementary Schools

Title (official language):: Magyar Királyi Helytartótanács, 1861. évi iratok, V. Elemi iskolai osztály

Scope and content:: Department V Elementary Schools of the Royal Hungarian Locotenential Council was responsible for personnel and educational matters of schools, including Israelite elementary schools. The records concerning Jewish schools can be found in thematic group no. 12.

Archival history:: The files of the dissolved Locotenential Council were handed over to the newly established Royal Hungarian Ministry of the Interior in 1867. Section D (Records of the Era of Absolutism) was created in 1952. The first finding aid was published in 1959. Since then, the collection has been rearranged and selected several times.

Administrative/biographical history:: Established in 1724, the Locotenential Council (Helytartótanács/Ungarische Statthalterei) was the central administrative body in Hungary under the Habsburg rule before the period of the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy (1867-1918). For a short period following the Hungarian War of Independence in 1849, the Locotenential Council (Helytartótanács/Ungarische Statthalterei), the Court Chancelleries (Magyar és Erdélyi Udvari Kancellária) and the local autonomies were dissolved and replaced by imperial ministries seated in Vienna. The so-called October Diploma (imperial decree) of 20 October 1860 signalled the end of the era of centralisation. The Vienna-based ministries were disbanded, and their function was taken over by the reorganised Locotenential Council and the Court Chancelleries. The successors of the Locotenential Council were the independent Royal Hungarian Ministries established after the Compromise of 1867, most of all the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Religious and Educational Affairs.

Finding aids:: Tuza Csilla, ed. Az abszolutizmuskori levéltár. Repertórium. Vol. 2. Budapest: MOL, 2005.