Metadata: Hungarian state primary school of Câmpulung la Tisa
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 548
- Title:
- Hungarian state primary school of Câmpulung la Tisa
- Title (official language):
- Şcoala primară maghiară de stat Câmpulung la Tisa
- Creator/accumulator:
- Hungarian state primary school of Câmpulung la Tisa
- Date(s):
- 1883/1948
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 0.30 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds comprises the registers and catalogues of the Hungarian state primary school of Câmpulung la Tisa from 1883 to 1948. The annual registers include for each student their name, birth date and birth place, their ethnic origin and religious affiliation, the name, residence and profession of their parents and their results in school subjects, including the final result of every grade. The catalogues record the presence of every student and their marks for every day of the academic year.
The students were mostly Hungarian and Romanian, but there was a Jewish community in Câmpulung la Tisa. In 1920 it numbered 341 members out of a total population of 2,676 inhabitants, the census from 1930 registered 317 Jews in a population of 2,831, while in 1941 there were 93 Jewish inhabitants out of a total population of 3,073 persons. The number of Jewish children at the local primary school reflects these proportions.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was held by the primary school of Câmpulung la Tisa before it was transferred to the Maramureş County division of the Romanian National Archives, where it was inventoried and made accessible to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Hungarian state primary school of Câmpulung la Tisa was established in 1883 in accordance with the law of the elementary education issued by the Hungarian Parliament in 1875. It functioned in this framework until the end of the First World War, when the Romanian administration was installed. The primary education was regulated by the law of 1924 which made obligatory the study of Romanian in all schools and in those of the national minorities the history and geography of Romania were also compulsorily taught in Romanian. The teachers were obliged to set exams in Romanian. In 1940 the Hungarian administration was reinstalled in Northern Transylvania and primary education was reorganised according to the Hungarian educational model. The number of Jewish students was first reduced by the introduction of the numerus clausus of 3% and then completely eliminated by the deportation of the entire Jewish community to Auschwitz. After 1945 the local primary school functioned again according to the inter-war structure until 1948, when elementary education was entirely reorganised by the Communist school reform.
- Access points: locations:
- Câmpulung la Tisa
- Subject terms:
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- System of arrangement:
- The registers and catalogues are arranged chronologically, with the students’ names in alphabetical order within.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 1140, 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:
- Levente Tóth (archivist, Protestant Theological Institute Cluj), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor), 2018