O sută de ani de la publicarea broșurii Ce sînt și ce vor sașii din Ardeal
One Hundred Years since the Publication of the Brochure Ce sînt și ce vor sașii din Ardeal

Summary/Abstract: The article offers a few remarks about the author and the context in which the brochure Ce sînt și ce vor sașii din Ardeal was published. On January 8, 1919 a Saxon representative assembly adopted a declaration in which they recognized the Union of Transylvania with Romania, which was decided in the Assembly of Transylvanian Romanians, the majority of the inhabitants in this region, on December 1, 1918. Saxons were less known in the other territories of Romania after 1918. However, the historian and political man Nicolae Iorga knew them as he had visited their cities and archives. On his proposal, the German-Saxon National Council sent him a text in Romanian of their self-presentation to the Romanians south and east of the Carpathians. In addition, they asked him to handle the publication of the brochure in Bucharest and to write a recommendation foreword. The brochure was published in June 1919 and was distributed throughout the country intensively. The author of the text is not indicated and some researchers consider that Iorga wrote the entire text. In his journal the savant writes down that the journalist Emil Neugeboren was the author of the brochure. His name does not appear on the cover, probably because he did not have a friendly political attitude towards Romanians in November-December 1918 regarding the issue of Transylvania detaching from Hungary and attaching to the Romanian state. The author refers to the Saxons’ past, their economy, their culture and shows their desiderata from the Romanian state. At the same time, he highlights a new aspect of the attitude filled with understanding towards N. Iorga’s national minorities.

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