Metadata: Personal collection Emil Szilard
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Romania, Arad county directorate
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Nationale Române. Direcţia judeţeană Arad
- Postal address:
- Strada Piotr Ilici Ceaikovski 2-6, 310052 Arad
- Phone number:
- 0040-257-233818
- Reference number:
- 146
- Title:
- Personal collection Emil Szilard
- Title (official language):
- Fond personal Szilard Emil
- Creator/accumulator:
- Szilard, Emil
- Date(s):
- 1902/1918
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 8 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds comprises documents, plans, projects and drawings from the personal collection of the engineer Emil Szilard, who was the owner of a firm of architecture and construction in Timişoara between 1902 and 1918. The material refers especially to projects regulating the rivers Danube, Tisa, Drava, Sava and Mureş and of the Bega Canal, construction of a hydroelectric plant on the Mureş, two buildings for the Polytechnical Institute of Timişoara and of several dams and canals in the area. The firm was also involved in several projects for the city of Arad, especially the Cultural Palace, one of the most representative monuments of architecture. File No. 5/1913 contains a list of Jewish industrial enterprises from Timişoara.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was transferred to the Arad county directorate of the Romanian National Archives, inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This collection was accumulated by the engineer Emil Szilard, who was a representative personality of development in the field of urbanism and architecture of several important cities in Hungary in the two decades before the First World War. He was originally from Arad, where he was born in 1869 and in 1898 married Maria Domany. He began his career as deputy engineer for the city of Arad and in 1897 he won the competition for the position of chief engineer of the city of Szombathely, occupying this position during an important period in the development of the infrastructure of the city. In 1902 he became chief engineer of the city of Timişoara. His most important achievement is the famous Bega Canal. In 1908 he was decorated by the emperor Franz Joseph. He also had a private firm of architecture and construction and had many connections with the Jewish companies and entrepreneurs of the area until the end of the First World War.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Szilard, Emil
- Subject terms:
- Architecture
- Manufacturing
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is comprised of files, which are arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory no.230, held by the Arad county directorate 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 - 2018; Ladislau Gyémánt, emeritus professor - 2018