CONTRIBUŢII LA CUNOAŞTEREA DATEI NAŞTERII, BOTEZULUI ŞI ÎNSCRIERII ÎN DOCUMENTELE OFICIALE A ACADEMICIANULUI CONSTANTIN DAICOVICIU
CONTRIBUTIONS TO CLARIFY ACADEMICIAN CONSTANTIN DAICOVICIU’S BIRTH DATE, BAPTISM, AND REGISTRATION IN OFFICIAL PAPERS

Summary/Abstract: By the civil status laws voted in 1894, in force with October 1, 1895, the authorities of the Magyar state imposed the Magyarization of the first names and even of names of Romanians, Slovaks, Serbians, and Croatians. The clerks in the administrative offices in charge of civil status activity were obliged to register births, marriages, and demises in special registers, and they tried to make parents to register the Christian name of a new born with the corresponding Magyar one, after baptizing. Schoolteacher Damaschin Daicoviciu of Căvăran, the father of the future professor, archeologist, epigraphist, and member on the Romanian Academy, requested the circle notary in Sacu, to register his son as Constantin, the name he had been given with the baptism occasion. That one refused to register the Romanian first name, and mentioned in the corresponding column of the register meg nem kapott, “not given yet”, what was a falsity. Only in 1932, after demands addressed to Prefecture of Severin County, his Christian name Constantin was registered on his birth certificated written in March 6, 1898. Both along his studies at the Magyar public gymnasium and lyceum in Lugoj and Caransebeș, 1909-1916, and the military probation, 1916-1918, he was enrolled under the name of Silard. The fall of 1918 when he applied to Cluj University was the first moment he used his Christian name in official papers. The archive documents prove that he was born in February 22, 1898, as registered in the parish register of the Romanian Orthodox Parish of Căvăran and that Constantin is his Christian name. From the register of newborns of Sacu circle notary results that his birth was declared only in March 6, 1898, but mentioned as born in March 1, a stratagem of his father to avoid paying the legal fine for being back with declaring the birth within 7 days. But March 1 is Constantin Daicoviciu’s sanctioned birth day, even if the true one is February 22.

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