Metadata: Superior Real State School of Arad
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Arad County division of the Romanian National Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale Române. Direcţia Judeţeană Arad
- Postal address:
- Arad, Str. Ceaikovski nr. 2-6, cod 310052, judeţul Arad
- Phone number:
- 0257-233818
- Reference number:
- Fond 12
- Title:
- Superior Real State School of Arad
- Title (official language):
- Şcoala Reală Superioară de Stat Arad
- Creator/accumulator:
- Superior Real State School of Arad
- Date(s):
- 1875/1920
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 36 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds comprises the registers, catalogues and files of the Superior Real State School of Arad from 1875 to 1920. It contains statistics concerning the students and teaching staff, records of exams, budget sheets and records of material donations to the school. 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 number of Jewish students reflects the existence in Arad of a strong Jewish community, which in 1891 numbered 4,795 member out of a total population of 42,057.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was originally held by the school inspectorate of Arad. It was transferred to the Arad County division of the Romanian National Archives, where it was inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Superior Real State School of Arad was founded in 1874, following a previous private real school that had functioned since 1863. It was recognised as a Superior State school in 1881, having 8 grades. It was focused on technic-scientific instruction of the students. The teaching language was Hungarian. Access was freely granted to Jewish students. After the First World War it was merged with the Moise Nicoară high school of Arad and Romanian was introduced as a teaching language.
- Access points: locations:
- Arad
- Subject terms:
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- System of arrangement:
- The thematic files are arranged chronologically. Within the registers and catalogues the students’ names are in alphabetical order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 94, held by the Arad 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
