Biografii, dicţionare, călătorii de diplomaţi… Preocupări germane în vederea sistematizării surselor documentare
Biographies, dictionaries, diplomatic voyages… Efforts made in Germany for the systematisation of documentary sources

Summary/Abstract: In recent years, the German historical culture has provided ideal opportunities for editing and systematising documentary sources. This is a privileged domain, in which German historiography has excelled starting with the 19th century. Impressive steps forward have also been made in the area of diplomatic history. Biographies, dictionaries, diplomatic voyages come to structure and complement a type of information that for a long while had been deficient. It is relatively easy for a historian to find out where a diplomat's career begins and ends and what are its professional highlights; other information pertain to the diplomat's private life: marriage, children, parents, possessions, birthplace, death, etc. Hidden for a long time in archive files and collections, the travel memoirs of diplomats, people who change their residence frequently due to the nature of their profession, have gained ground and substance within the space of German documentary writing. It is to such research instruments that the first part of this study is dedicated to. The second part is based on the information collected from the series of five volumes Biographisches Handbuch des deutschen Auswärtigen Dienstes 1871-1945 describing the diplomatic career of the German plenipotentiaries accredited in Bucharest. The focus was mainly on their age, career history and professional perspectives opening or closing as a result of the time spent in Bucharest.

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