Archival human right
As archival human rights (including archival human rights ), the rules by the French National Assembly on 25. June 1794 (7th Messidor of the year II by revolutionary era ) decided Archives Act designates. The law, which was almost revolutionary for old European conditions, regulated the organization of a new, state-centralized archive system in the Republic of France, established the publicity of the archive material for the first time and thus introduced an early legal form of freedom of information . Article 37 of the [Law], published in Bulletin des lois 12, No. 58, regulated the free access to the archives:
“Every citizen can request inspection of the documents stored in the archives on specified days and hours. It is granted to him free of charge on site and under due supervision. "
This regulation was a revolutionary innovation in Europe. The historian and archivist Wilhelm Wiegand therefore coined the term “archival human rights” at the beginning of the 20th century . The direct effects were initially minor, however, and the liberal regulation was soon withdrawn. The opening of the state archives dragged on well into the 20th century and has not yet been completed.
Individual references / source
- ↑ Michael Scholz: The opening of the archives for everyone - on the history of public use. in: Brandenburg Archives - Messages from the Archives of the State of Brandenburg 10/1997, p. 4 (PDF; 2.0 MB)
literature
- Maria Würfel: Choc par les documents - Archival human rights , in: History in Science and Education 34 (1983), pp. 271–297.
- Frank-Michael Bischoff and Axel Koppetsch: The archival human rights - the public has had the privilege of archives for two hundred years. in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 7, 1994.