Date noi referitoare la heraldistul József Sebestyén Keöpeczi și Stemele județelor din Transilvania
New Data Regarding the Heraldist József Sebestyén Keöpeczi and Stemele județelor din Transilvania [The Coats-of-Arms of the Transylvanian County]

Summary/Abstract: Little is known in the Romanian bibliography about the work and activity of the heraldist Jozsef Sebestyén Keöpeczi. While progress was made in particular towards knowing the context in which the Great Romanian’s coat-of-arms was set up, with its three alternatives, formalised in 1921, too little is known about its direct or indirect involvement in the process of elaborating the territorial heraldry created during the interwar period. The identification in the Bucharest archives of a number of 19 compositions holding Sebestyén signature, preserved in isolation in a file entitled “Transylvanian counties’ coat of arms”, offers the opportunity to reveal new respects of his activity during the existence of the Heraldic Consultative Commission. This paper has a purpose to analyse and contextualise the above mentioned coats-of-arms, connecting the new information with the one already known about the heraldist and with data recorded in his correspondence. These new heraldic sources come to complete the data on the work of the heraldic forum from the interwar period, in some cases illustrating the stages in setting up of the compositions, from the beginnings to their official version, due to the drawings on the back of the coats-of-arms set up by József Sebestyén.

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