Metadata: Calvinist Normal School 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 140
- Title:
- Calvinist Normal School for girls of Satu Mare
- Title (official language):
- Şcoala Normală Reformată de fete Satu Mare
- Creator/accumulator:
- Calvinist Normal School for girls of Satu Mare
- Date(s):
- 1909/1919
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 6 registers and catalogues
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds comprises 6 registers and catalogues of the Calvinist Normal School for girls of Satu Mare from 1909 to 1919. 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, but there was an important Jewish community in Satu Mare. In 1910 it numbered 7,194 members out of a total population of 34,892 inhabitants. It had a strong tendency to assimilate into Hungarian society and culture so that a considerable number of Jewish girls attended this Hungarian-language institution until the First World War.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was originally held by the Calvinist church of Satu Mare and was transferred to the Satu Mare County division of the Romanian National Archives, where it was inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Calvinist Normal School for girls of Satu Mare was founded in 1903 by the Calvinist church authorities in order to prepare schoolmistresses for Calvinist elementary education. The language of instruction was Hungarian and most of the students were of Calvinist denomination, but access was also permitted to students of other religious beliefs. The local Jewish community, which was of considerable size and proportion in the local population, had a tendency to assimilate especially from a linguistic and cultural point of view into the dominant Hungarian society, which had offered full civil rights to the Jewish population since 1867. This tendency of assimilation was supported by official policy so as to increase the proportion of those who declared themselves as Hungarian speakers in the census that was taken every decade, in order to counterbalance the proportion of the other nationalities, especially the Romanians.
- Access points: locations:
- Satu Mare
- 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. 185, held by the Satu Mare County division of the Romanian National Archives.
- 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), 2018
