Catagrafia Bucureştiului din anul 1810. O nouă lectură (II)
The Census of Bucharest from 1810. A New Lecture (II)

Summary/Abstract: In 1810, during the Russian occupation of the Roumanian Principalities, the military commandement orders an extended and detailed taking the census of the country, which had to be fulfilled by local ecclesiastical authorities. At the end, after some hesitations, concluded with the deposition of both Roumanian metropolitans, the census was ended in the autumn of 1810. The hard laboured documentation of these census is deposited at the Roumanian Academy`s Library and was partially published for different countries (judeţe) or cities from Roumania. In 1908 historian Alexandru Lapedatu published the section about Bucureşti under the title „Catagrafia bisericilor bucureştene a 1810” (The census of churches from Bucureşti in 1810). This documentation interested only those which studied the ecclesiastical history of Bucureşti, and, in the historiograhy of the capital city was signaled the value of this document as a demographical source and of general interest for Bucureşti history without ever beeing analised in detail. The actual study is different from the text published in 1908, because it tries, by a new lecture, to order so the documentat`s content as by a quantity analyse the datas furnished to be put in a new light. As a result are overlighted social facts, human types and elements of psichology of the communities from the early XIXth century. The study was structured in eight chapters.

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