Metadata: Collection of the engineer Paul Herczeg and of the collector Frederic Schnid
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Maramureş County division of the Romanian National Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale. Direcţia judeţeană Maramureş
- Postal address:
- Bulevardul Bucureşti 26, Baia Mare 430052, judeţul Maramureş
- Phone number:
- 0262-437948
- Email:
- maramures.an@mai.gov.ro
- Reference number:
- Fond 39; 275
- Title:
- Collection of the engineer Paul Herczeg and of the collector Frederic Schnid
- Title (official language):
- Documente personale ale inginerului Paul Herczeg şi colecţia de fotografii şi ilustrate a lui Frederic Schnid
- Creator/accumulator:
- Paul Herczeg, Frederic Schnid
- Date(s):
- 1891/1935
- Language:
- German
- Hungarian
- Latin
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 16 files; 675 photos and postcards
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds comprises the personal records of the Jewish engineer Paul Herczeg from 1891 to 1935. They relate to his studies in Satu Mare, Oradea, Budapest and Schemnitz (Banská Štiavnica, Selmecbánya), his military records from the First World War, documents concerning his professional activity and his obituary from 1927. The collection also contains 442 photos which cover the period of his studies in Beiuş and Schemnitz, his military service in Alba Iulia and the working conditions in factories and mines in Hungary, Romania, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Austria in the first decades of the 20th century.
The collection of Frederic Schnid includes photos and postcards from the 19th and 20th century with folk costumes from Romania and Bukovina, Romanian military uniforms (gendarmes, marines, firemen, cavalry, foot soldier, artillery, bugler), images from Bucharest and other cities and folk costumes from Transylvania (Rumanian, Saxon, Szekler, Roma). The collection includes one photograph of a Jewish subject: no. 233 - Rabbi praying.
- Archival history:
- The collection of Paul Herczeg was sold in 1979 to the Maramureş County division of the Romanian National Archives by the daughter of the collector, Magdalena Ursu (née Herczeg), at the time a professor in Cluj-Napoca.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
Paul Herczeg was born on 15 April 1880 in Mara, into a Jewish intellectual family. He studied at the primary school of Botiza and then in the Roman-Catholic gymnasiums in Satu Mare and Oradea. He continued his academic studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Budapest and then in the Mining Academy in Schemnitz (now Banská Štiavnica in Slovakia). As an engineer, he worked in the gold mines of Săcărîmb and then in mining enterprises in Maramureş county. He took part in the First World War in the Austro-Hungarian army and returned a war invalid. After the war he worked in different countries (Italy, Hungary, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Romania) and as a passionate photographer gathered a collection of photos connected especially to his workplaces.
No biographical information is preserved about Frederic Schnid.
- Access points: locations:
- Alba Iulia
- Beiuş
- Botiza
- Bukovina
- Mara
- Romania
- Săcărîmb
- Schemnitz
- Transylvania
- Subject terms:
- Photographs
- Professions
- Professions--Engineers
- Rabbis
- System of arrangement:
- The collections are arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories No. 252, 501 and 541, held by the Maramureş County division of the Romanian National Archives.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Anton Dörner (retired researcher), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor) 2017
