Metadata: Roman-Catholic gymnasium for girls of Satu Mare
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Satu Mare County division of the Romanian National Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale Române. Direcţia Judeţeană Satu Mare
- Postal address:
- Satu Mare, Str. 1 Decembrie 1918, 13, Satu Mare, 440010, jud. Satu Mare
- Phone number:
- 0261-711102
- Reference number:
- Fond 286
- Title:
- Roman-Catholic gymnasium for girls of Satu Mare
- Title (official language):
- Gimnaziul Romano-Catolic de Fete Satu Mare
- Creator/accumulator:
- Roman-Catholic gymnasium for girls of Satu Mare
- Date(s):
- 1889/1947
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 15 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds comprises the school registers and the certificates of study issued by the Roman-Catholic Gymnasium for girls of Satu Mare from 1889 to 1947 for the four gymnasial grades. The registers include for each student their name, birth place, birth year and religious affiliation, the name, residence and profession of their parents and their results in school subjects. The final certificates include the results of exams taken at the end of the gymnasial studies. They were compulsory documents for the continuation of studies in high school.
Most students are Hungarian, German and Romanian, but Jewish students also attended the school in the same proportion as the Jewish community represented in the population of Satu Mare until the Holocaust. Between 1940 and 1944 the Hungarian antisemitic legislation strictly limited the admission of Jewish students, while after the Second World War and the Holocaust no more Jewish students are to be found in the registers.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was originally held by the National College Ioan Slavici in Satu Mare. It was transferred to the Satu Mare County division of the Romanian National Archives in 2004, where it was inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Roman-Catholic Gymnasium for girls from Satu Mare was founded in 1889 and functioned until the First World War in accordance with the Austro-Hungarian legislation on confessional schooling, being subordinated to the Roman-Catholic church. After the First World War, the Romanian educational system modified the regime of the confessional school, making compulsory the teaching of Romanian as the state language as well as the teaching of some subjects, such as the history of Romania, in this language. It was also compulsory to have a delegate of the Ministry of Education present at the final exams. Between 1940 and 1944 the Hungarian school system was reintroduced, while after the Second World war the inter-war legislation became valid again until 1948 when the Communist regime abolished both confessional schools and separate institutions for girls.
- Access points: locations:
- Satu Mare
- Subject terms:
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged chronologically. Within the registers the students’ names are in alphabetical order.
- Finding aids:
-
Inventory No. 371, held by the Satu Mare County division of the Romanian National Archives.
The inventory is also available online.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Attila Gidó (researcher, Institute for Study of National Minorities, Cluj-Napoca), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor), 2017
