Metadata: Records of the Nagykőrös Calvinist Gymnasium (Lyceum), 1790-1948
Collection
- Country:
- Hungary
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Hungary, Pest County Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Pest Megyei Levéltára
- Postal address:
- Pf. 141., H-1450 Budapest, Hungary
- Phone number:
- +36 1 455 9050
- Web address:
- http://mnl.gov.hu/pml/
- Email:
- pml@mnl.gov.hu
- Reference number:
- VIII. 52
- Title:
- Records of the Nagykőrös Calvinist Gymnasium (Lyceum), 1790-1948
- Title (official language):
- Nagykőrösi Református Főgimnázium (Líceum) iratai, 1790-1948
- Creator/accumulator:
- Nagykőrös Calvinist Gymnasium (Lyceum)
- Date(s):
- 1790/1948
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Latin
- German
- Extent:
- 9.13 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection holds the records of the Nagykőrös Calvinist Gymnasium (grammar school) from the late 18th century until the nationalisation of the school in 1948-1949. The material includes the following relevant thematic groups:
VIII. 52. a. Minutes of teachers’ meetings from 1900-1903, 1933-1939 and 1945-1948, which contain information about the instructions of superior authorities (Ministry of Education), organisational and personal matters, methodological issues, the advancement of the students, grading and disciplinary issues. Some of the minutes include the text of lectures and presentations given at the meetings.
VIII. 52. b. General school records, covering various administrative, financial, personnel matters, records of funds, timetables, payrolls, minutes of meetings, statistics, essays and papers of pupils, comprehensive syllabi and class photos covering the period 1846-1848.
VIII. 52. c. Registers, 1836-1948, which covers plenty of issues, including but not limited to school reports (bizonyítványok) registration cards (törzslapok), records of examinations, comprehensive reports on the achievements of pupils, and register books (anyakönyv) of classes, minutes of enrolment (beiratkozási jegyzőkönyv), register books of school leaving exams and report cards (bizonyítványok) as well as cashier’s logs on tuition and other fees and payments to the Calvinist church treasury. Box 8 holds the records of religious studies class (hittan), grades of non-Calvinist pupils, including Israelites, from 1895-1902. Register books are particularly relevant sources for historical and sociological research, as these records contain the personal data of students, including address, religion and the names and occupations of their parents as well as the classes taught, names of instructors/teachers, and the grades.
Series VIII. 52. d-f. are of less relevance, covering general financial reports, records of funds, and the documents of pupils’ organisations. Yearbooks from the years 1853-1947 (VIII. 52. g.) contain comprehensive study, financial and administrative reports on each school year.
- Archival history:
- Following the nationalisation of the school in July 1948, the records were handed over to the Pest County Archives. The collection was taken to Nagykőrös in the 1960s. It was re-arranged and a new unit-level description was prepared in 2001.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Founded in the second half of the 16th century, Nagykőrös Calvinist Gymnasium (grammar school) is one of the oldest secondary schools in Hungary. The first surviving records date back to the 1630s. The school gained the rank of 8-grade public gymnasium (8 osztályos nyilvános főgimnázium) in 1853. Passing the school leaving exam (érettségi vizsgálat) at the gymnasium was a precondition for higher education. From these years on, Jewish pupils were also allowed to enrol. Their proportion gradually increased during the second half of the 19th century, and Jews were significantly overrepresented among the pupils until the 1930s. Gymnasia became one of the key factors of the social integration and acculturation of Hungarian Jews. In 1944, nine of the Jewish pupils of the gymnasium were deported and murdered. There were some pupils of Jewish origin in the school after 1945 as well. In July 1948, the school was nationalised by the Communist state. In 1992 the municipality returned the school to the Calvinist church, which runs it today. http://www.ajrg.hu/node/41
- Access points: locations:
- Nagykőrös
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged into seven major thematic groups numbered VIII.52. a-g., including minutes, general records, registers, financial reports, records of funds, documents of pupils’ organisations and yearbooks. Records are mostly arranged chronologically. Before 1945, the registration followed the school year and after 1945 the calendar year.
- Finding aids:
-
No original finding aids exist. An offline collection level description in Hungarian is available for the collection.
Ernő Lakatos, ed. A Magyar Állami Levéltárak fondjegyzéke, Vol. III. A Területi Levéltárak fondjegyzékei Part 13. A Pest Megyei Levéltár fondjainak jegyzéke. Budapest: Magyar Országos Levéltár, 1975.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://pestmlev.hu/data/files/175978947.pdf
- Yerusha Network member:
- Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives
- Author of the description:
- László Csősz; Hungarian National Archives; 18-12-2015 (In cooperation with the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure)
