“For over a century, the national movement of the Romanians in Transylvania and Hungary has represented a ‛classical’ interest area for the Romanian historiography. Starting from monographs and collections of documents, to biographies, local history studies and published correspondence, the historians have reached this particular theme from various perspectives, but mainly through a primarily positivistic methodological spectrum. Ironically, however, this most rigorous (theoretically) approach has not produced equally rigorous results, at least not in the field of biographical knowledge, where large gaps can still be found, even today. […]
The present work contains a number of prosopographic and statistical studies regarding the elite of the Romanian national movement in Transylvania between 1861 and 1918, chronologically ordered in the form of chapters and accompanied by a high number of tables and graphs. The interested reader should find the entire composition of the Romanian national movement’s leadership, minimal biographical data about the members of the elite (year of birth, denomination, place of residence, profession and so on), as well as the analysis of some statistical indicators meant to illustrate its evolution.” (Foreword)

Contents

Foreword

Chapter I. The structure of the Romanian National Committees (1861, 1863) and of the Central Electoral Committees of the Romanian National Party from Transylvania (1869 – 1881)

Chapter II. The membership of the Central Electoral Committees between 1881 and 1896

Chapter III. Case study. The organisation of the Romanian National Party in the Lower Alba County (1881–1896)

Chapter IV. The membership of the Central Electoral Committees between 1896 and 1918

Chapter V. On the written heritage of the Romanian political elite from Hungary (1867–1918)

Conclusions

List of figures

List of abbreviations

Annex no. 1. The bibliographical catalogue of the Romanian political elite

Annex no. 2. The bibliographical catalogue of the Romanian political elite. Translation

Selected sources and bibliography

Onomastic index

Topographic index