Un catalog al bibliotecii profesorului blăjean Ioan Raţiu (1869-1917)
A Catalogue of Professor Ioan Raţiu’s Library from Blaj Town (1869-1917)

Summary/Abstract: The main goal the present paper is to draw attention to Dr. Ioan Raţiu’s library. We found the catalogue of this library as part of the documents which belonged to the Greek-Catholic High School from Blaj (now to be found at the National Archives, Alba county). We took an interest in Dr. Raţiu’s catalogue for two reasons: (1) it gives us information about the level of education and reading interests of the Romanian intelligentsia from Transylvania at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century and (2) it gives us valuable information about Dr. Ioan Raţiu, a teacher at the Greek-Catholic High School from Blaj whose life and activity have remained little known. The catalogue includes more than 700 titles, most of which cover the fields of history, philology, theology, pedagogy and culture in general. The circumstances under which dr. Raţiu’s library become part of the library of the Greek-Catholic High School from Blaj are not known – it may have been a donation during his life or after his death. We tend to believe that it was a donation because it was customary for teachers at the time to donate their libraries to the schools where they used to teach.

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