The Institute for History Cluj and its "Yearbook" (1920-2008)
The Institute for History Cluj and its "Yearbook" (1920-2008)

Summary/Abstract: The study makes a survey of the evolution of Institute for National History in Cluj and its Yearbook since inter-war period until 2008. The Institute of National History in Cluj set up by professors Alexandru Lapedatu (1876-1950) and Ioan Lupas (1880-1867), members of the Romanian Academy, was among the newly established Romanian institutions in Cluj, after 1918. The most important scientific duty of the Institute was to investigate Transylvania’s past; that is to identify historical-archive materials and expand the documentary database by publishing collections of historical sources related to the main issues of the past of the intra-Carpathian province, which would serve as starting point for future historical reconstructions. Shortly after the foundation of the Institute in 1920, under the patronage of its founders, its periodical publication was elaborated and published: “Yearbook of the Institute for National History” in Cluj, one of the first historical journals in Romania. The thematic content and columns of the yearbook met the demands of modern European historical research, with which the editors of the Cluj publication were quite familiar. Soon enough, the yearbook of the Cluj Institute gained its place among the scientific periodicals published under the patronage of the Romanian Academy, drawing more and more attention both in the country and abroad.

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