Consideraţii privind funcţionarii publici români din Transilvania. Studiu de caz: Comitatul Sibiu şi Scaunele Săseşti care l‑au format (1861–1918)
Considerations regarding the Romanian Civil Servants from Transilvania. A case study: Sibiu County and the pradating Saxon Sees (1861-1918)

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with three aspects related to Romanian civil servants in Transylvania between 1861 and 1918. It begins with a short overview of the Romanian historical writing, which up until the last decade, showed very little interest in the subject. Second, a case study on the southern regions of Transylvania (mainly the Saxon sees forming the post-1876 county of Szeben) is meant to identify the actual Romanian presence within the civil servants’ corps, while highlighting some practical and methodological issues, which an extended research on the subject needs to take into consideration. A special focus point within the case study is represented by the extent to which biographical data on Romanian clerks is available in various sources. The final part of the paper sheds some light on the complicated entanglement between the Romanian civil servants and the national political and cultural movement, presenting its evolution during the Liberal and Dualist periods, together with its echoes into historiography.

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