Metadata: Primary School “Mihailo Pupin“
Collection
- Country:
- Serbia
- Holding institution:
- Historical Archives of Pančevo
- Holding institution (official language):
- Историјски архив у Панчеву (Istorijski arhiv u Pančevu)
- Postal address:
- Nemanjina 7, 26 000 Pančevo, Republic of Serbia
- Phone number:
- (+381) 13 317 344
- Web address:
- https://www.arhivpancevo.org.rs/
- Email:
- arhivsek@panet.rs
- Reference number:
- F. 36
- Title:
- Primary School “Mihailo Pupin“
- Title (official language):
- Основна школа „Михајло Пупин“
- Creator/accumulator:
- Middle Town Primary School; Primary School “Kralj Aleksandar“; Primary School “Mihajlo Pupin“
- Date(s):
- 1879/1946
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Serbian
- Extent:
- 2.5 linear metres (56 administrative books and 5 boxes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The documents created by the Primary School “Mihajlo Pupin“ in Pančevo date from 1879 to 1946. The school changed its organisation and title several times, thus the documentation created during the activities of the schools was preserved under different names. Pančevo didn't have a Jewish school and the Jewish pupils attended the existing city mixed schools. The preserved records comprise personal documents, payroll lists, class attendance and grade books, work reports, school books, etc., and provided data on the school’s students, including Jews, their parents, performances and success in the school.
- Archival history:
- The documents were transferred in 1968. There are no other details regarding the archival history of the fonds.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
There are no details on when the first school was opened in Pančevo, but it was recorded that the Normal School in Pančevo published its school schedule on 1 October 1777. By 1802 there were four schools in Pančevo: Normal, Trivial; Mathematical and School for Female Pupils. The number of schools gradually increased. In 1833 there were three two-grade trivial schools and one three-grade main school, which was upgraded with an additional grade by the order of the General Command on 31 December 1855. The school also received a new curriculum that came into force on 1 February 1856. The preserved school records date back to 1878.
Five schools existed in Pančevo in the 1880s: a four-grade Serbian primary school with four male and four female classes in Gornja Varoš, and a mixed three-grade Serbian primary school in Donja Varoš, a six-grade German primary school for girls and a six-grade German primary school for boys. After 1918, the Act on School of the Kingdom of Serbia of 1904 came into force in Vojvodina. In areas inhabited by minorities, parallel classes were organised where the lessons were taught in the respective nationalities’ languages. In the school year 1920/21, Pančevo had seven state primary schools: four with Serbian as the teaching language, two with German and one with Hungarian. Schools with Serbian as the teaching language had four grades, those with German had five and those with Hungarian six. As early as 1922, the number of overall schools dropped to six (four Serbian and two German). The Serbian elementary school in Srednja Varoš had one German section with two classes and one Hungarian section with five classes.
In 1935, the following primary schools were recorded: "Kralja Aleksandra", "Prestolonaslednika Petra", "Vožda Karađorđa", "Cara Dušana", "Cara Lazara" and the school "Dositej Obradović". The main changes in primary education came in the period 1944-1954. On the basis of the Law of October 1945, compulsory eight-year schooling was introduced. Already in the first year after the liberation, there were four classes with Hungarian as the language of instruction. In 1952/53, "Ady Endre" was singled out as a special eight-year school. In 1950, four eight-year schools were opened in Pančevo, named Osmoljetka No.1, Osmoljetka No. 2, Osmoljetka No.3 and Osmoljetka No. 4. They operated under these names until 12 February 1953, when the People's Committee of the City Municipality passed a decision on changing their names: Osmoljetka no. 1 became the Eight-Year Folk School "Dositej Obradović", Osmoljetka no. 2. Eight-Year School "Đura Jakšić", Osmoljetka no. 3, changed its name to the Eight-Year Folk School "Jovan Jovanović Zmaj", while Osmoljetka no. 4 was named the Eight-Year Public School "Branko Radičević".
According to the decision of the People's Committee of the Municipality of Pančevo (19 May 1959), the Elementary School "Žarko Zrenjanin" was founded; it ceased to exist in September 1965. The Elementary School “Mihajlo Pupin“was the legal successor of the following schools: the Middle Town Serbian and Primary State School and the Elementary School “Kralj Aleksandar“. In 1939 it was named the Elementary School “Mihajlo Pupin“.
- Access points: locations:
- Pančevo
- Subject terms:
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- There is a list of administrative books and a partial summary catalogue, although the documentation was catalogued.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Smiljka Vučur; Historical Archives of Pančevo; 2020
