Urban Administration in the Principality of Moldavia after the Adoption of the Organic Statute: Employees of the Municipal Councils (1834)
Urban Administration in the Principality of Moldavia after the Adoption of the Organic Statute: Employees of the Municipal Councils (1834)

Summary/Abstract: After the adoption of the Organic Statute of Moldavia (1832), municipals councils were established in the main towns of the Principality. Alongside the elected municipal councillors, these new institutions also employed appointed bureaucrats: secretaries, clerks (in Iași and Galați) and a “special appointee” (in Iași only). In the present article, I aimed to reconstruct the profiles of the unelected civil servants employed by the Moldavian municipalities in the year 1834. To this end, I used the service records of these functionaries, preserved at the National Archives of Romania – Iași County Directorate, along with other sources (edited or unpublished). This collective biography comprises information regarding: the birth places of the municipal council employees; their median age (in 1834 and at the time of their “debut” in public service); their education; the foreign languages they spoke; their marital status and property; their experience and continuity in state service; their social status (as defined by family and nobility rank). These data were compared to the findings regarding the biographies of the municipal councillors and of the Interior Ministry employees in general.

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