Radu Racovițan, Istoria națională, prioritatea revistei „Transilvania” între 1868 și 1918
The National History, a priority of the Transylvania Review between 1868-1918
On the solid ground created by the Illuminist historiography, represented by the Transylvanian School, and on which created by the forty-eighters-historians Aron Florian, A.T. Laurian and N. Bălcescu, who make that in the first half of the 19th century the dimensions of the history of the Romanians, reflected in historiography, to be in fact one of the nation, ASTRA is developing its preoccupations for the study of the history of the Romanian people. Through the projects forged in the frame of the historical section of the Transylvanian Association and through the organized study of some chapters of the people’s past, constitutes a theorethical support of the political struggle of the Romanians during the Austro-Hungarian dualism (1867-1918). The Transylvania Review is the organ press of ASTRA which comprises in a large sphere of preoccupations the culturalscientific activity of the Association. Preeminently in the period of our discussion the review cultivates the historical science. The aim of the historians grouped around her is gathering at one place of the documentary material necessary for the writing of a national history of the Romanian people. Three remarkable personalities of the ASTRA, through their historical activity, namely Timotei Cipariu, Al. Papiu Ilarian and G. Bariţiu imposed the fortyeighties’ historiography with a pronounced national goal. Around them shall group historians and scholars increasingly numerous, covering all the fundamental chapters of the history of Transylvania, as a component part of the national one, raking whole archives and publishing tomes of documents, evidence that the historical past was subject to researches of ample proportions and unprecedented erudition. From the three great historians up to Silviu Dragomir and Ioan Lupaş, the last active participants at the carrying out of the national ideal, the Union, the historiography developed, reaching in the evening before the national complete Unity full European devotion.
Keywords: Transylvania Review, ASTRA, George Bariţiu, national history, Romanian historiography
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