A Wesselényi család iratöröksége és az Erdélyi Nemzeti Múzeum Levéltára
The Archives of the Wesselényi Family and the Transylvanian National Museum Archives

Author(s): Tamás Fejér
Subject(s): Local History / Microhistory
Published by: Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület
Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes the history of the archival documents of the Wesselényi family preserved in the Archives of the Transylvanian National Museum, an institution that used to function in the framework of the Transylvanian Museum Society. The Wesselényi family originally came from Nógrád county, and settled in Transylvania in the mid-16th century. The majority of the archival material containing some twenty-five thousand documents (of which three hundred medieval charters) – very rich in Transylvanian context – was preserved by the Jibou (Zsibó) branch of the family, and placed in the custody of the Transylvanian Museum Society in 1896 by Baron Miklós Wesselényi (1845–1916), count (comes) of Sălaj county. The remains of the almost completely destroyed archives of the Hodod (Hadad) and Dragu (Drág) branches, and the documents preserved in the family’s house in Cluj (Kolozsvár) were deposited in the archive of the Museum Society in the second part of the 1940s. The Wesselényi family also had a minor amount of documents in the archives of the Reformed (Calvinist) College of Cluj, which the institution handed over to the Museum Society in 1944–45. The mentioned archives are now found in the collections of the National Archives of Cluj and the University Library of Cluj.

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