Metadata: Decebal High School Deva
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Romania, Hunedoara county directorate
- Holding institution (official language):
- Serviciul judeţean Hunedoara al Arhivelor Naţionale Române
- Postal address:
- Strada Aurel Vlaicu 2, Deva 330005
- Phone number:
- 0040-254-213875
- Reference number:
- 683
- Title:
- Decebal High School Deva
- Title (official language):
- Liceul "Decebal" Deva
- Creator/accumulator:
- Decebal High School Deva
- Date(s):
- 1866/1978
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 136 files and registers
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds comprises the school registers of the Hungarian State High School of Deva from 1877 to 1920, of Decebal High School from 1920 to 1978 and of private students for the years 1922 to 1930, catalogues of grades, registers of entrance and issue of correspondence with higher authorities in the educational field and records of the teachers’ council of the high school from 1912 to 1978. The school registers include details of each student in every academic year including the following information: name, date and place of birth, names, nationality and religion of parents, date of vaccination and school results in each subject. Over 10% of the school’s students were Jewish, except during the Holocaust period when Jewish students were not accepted. This is roughly in proportion with the Jewish population of the town of Deva. In 1920 there were 728 Jewish individuals in a total of 9,382 inhabitants, in 1930 it was 848 of 12,158 and in 1966 it had gone down to 624 of 18,797.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was transferred by the Hunedoara county directorate of the Romanian National Archives in 1978, where it was inventoried and made accessible to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The high school of Deva was founded in 1871 as a state institution with a single grade. The structure was completed in the following years and the first 10 students graduated in the academic year 1879-80. The teaching language was Hungarian. Initially the high school did not have its own building but funds were collected from donations of the inhabitants of the town and surrounding area. One of the most important personalities of the teaching staff was Gabor Teglas, director from 1883 to 1904, who was a famous archaeologist from Transylvania. After the First World War the high school received the name Decebal and under the direction of Iosif Botezan was reorganised in accordance with the Romanian law of high school education. The teaching language was Romanian and 819 students graduated between 1919 and 1948. During the Second World War, due to the antisemitic policy of the Antonescu dictatorship, Jewish students were excluded from the school. After 1948 it was reorganised in accordance with the Communist reform of the educational system.
- Access points: locations:
- Deva
- Subject terms:
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is organised in thematic files, within which the registers and records are arranged in chronological order. In the registers the students are inscribed in alphabetical order.
- Access, restrictions:
- The fonds is available for research as long as restrictions for personal data less than a 100 years old are respected.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory no. 806, held by the Hunedoara county directorate of the Romanian National Archives.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Tóth Levente, archivist - Protestant Theological Institute - 2019; Ladislau Gyémánt, emeritus professor - 2019