National Archives of Romania
| Romanian National Archives
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 The central building in Bucharest |
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| Archive type | State Archives |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 26 '2 " N , 26 ° 5' 33" E |
| place | Bucharest , Romania |
| Visitor address | Bulevardul Regina Elisabeta 49 Bucharest |
| Website | www.arhivelenationale.ro |
The Romanian National Archives ( Romanian Arhivele Naţionale ale României ), until 1996 State Archives ( Romanian Arhivele Statului ), are the national archives of Romania , whose headquarters are located in Bucharest . They are subordinate to the Romanian Ministry of the Interior and consist of the branches of the 41 district archives and the Bucharest city archive .
history
Up until the late 18th century, it was common in the Danube Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia for archives to be maintained only by royal chancelleries, church institutions or privately by aristocratic dignitaries in the ranks of the boyar hierarchy . Monasteries are among the oldest places where documents are stored, as they were considered relatively safe. There is evidence of an archive for the metropolis of Bucharest for the year 1775, which also kept documents on property and property boundaries.
The beginnings of modern Romanian archives go back to the Organic Regulations , which came into force from May 1, 1831 in Wallachia and from January 1, 1832 in the Republic of Moldova and created the basis for an administration based on the western liberal model. In addition to concentrating the important domestic documents in the capitals Bucharest and Iași , efforts were also made to collect copies from Austrian and Russian archives. After the unification of the two principalities to form the Principality of Romania in 1859 , with the proclamation of the Kingdom of Romania in 1862, the archiving institutions were brought together under a general directorate based in Bucharest and were subordinate to the Ministry of Justice, Culture and Public Education.
After the developments of 1918, the political unification of the Romanian state also resulted in the new provinces being integrated into the archive structure. For example, a state archive was established in Cluj in 1920, and later also in Czernowitz (1924) and Chisinau (1925). In 1925 a new law on the functioning of the state archives came into force, which among other things established regional guidelines and maintenance by the Ministry of Public Education.
In the course of the new ideological orientation during the time of the People's Republic of Romania and the later Socialist Republic, the management was subordinate to the Interior Ministry from 1951, following the Soviet model. In 1996 a new law was passed regulating the activities of the Archives Institute. At the same time, the term State Archives was replaced by that of the Romanian National Archives.
Stocks
Approx. 370,000 linear meters of archive material are stored in the archives.
Head and staff
- Gheorghe Asachi : 1832-1849, 1857-1858
- Ion Heliade-Rădulescu : 1843-1848
- Grigore Alexandrescu : 1849-1854
- Gheorghe Sion : 1855-1856
- Vasile Alecsandri : 1860-1863
- Cezar Bolliac : 1864-1866
- Constantin D. Aricescu : 1869-1870, 1871-1876
- Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu : 1876-1900