Metadata: Hungarian popular elementary school in Prundu Bîrgăului
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Bistriţa-Năsăud County
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale Române, Direcţia judeţeană Bistriţa-Năsăud
- Postal address:
- Gării Str. 3-5, Bistriţa 420139, judeţul Bistriţa-Năsăud, Romania
- Phone number:
- 0040-263-203-249
- Reference number:
- Fond 777
- Title:
- Hungarian popular elementary school in Prundu Bîrgăului
- Title (official language):
- Şcoala populară maghiară de stat Prundu Bîrgăului
- Creator/accumulator:
- Hungarian popular elementary school in Prundu Bîrgăului
- Date(s):
- 1899/1918
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 0.5 linear metres (29 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains 28 registers of the pupils of the Hungarian popular elementary school in Prundu Bîrgăului from 1899 to 1918 and a file of correspondence with the school inspectorate of Bistriţa-Năsăud county from the year 1902. The catalogues comprise a certain year of study and 1-2 grades. The proportion of Jewish pupils was around 35%, reflecting the existence of an important Jewish community in Prundu Bîrgăului. The data from the catalogues reflects the social structure and the national and religious composition of the schoolchildren. It also includes information on their birthdate, residence, mother tongue and other languages spoken, the profession of the parents, school results and in some cases the further schools followed by each pupil (for example: File 16/1912/1913).
- Archival history:
- The fonds was in the custody of the industrial high school in Prundu Bîrgăului and was transferred to the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Bistriţa-Năsăud County in 1984. It was inventoried in 2013.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Hungarian popular elementary school in Prundu Bîrgăului was founded in 1899. It functioned until 1918 when it was taken over and merged with the general school in Prundu Bîrgăului with Romanian as the language of instruction.
- Access points: locations:
- Prundu Bîrgăului
- Subject terms:
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 1923 of the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Bistriţa-Năsăud County.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Levente Tóth (archivist, Protestant Theological Institute Cluj-Napoca), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor Cluj-Napoca), 2017
