A Hajdú-Bihar Megyei Levéltár évkönyve 26. 1999 (Debrecen, 1999)

Tanulmányok - Antal Tamás: A debreceni közigazgatás átalakulásának néhány kérdése a Batthyány kormány időszakában

Hajdú-Вihar Megyei Levéltár Évkönyve XXVI

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A debreceni közigazgatás 1848-as átalakulásának bemutatása - természetesen - nem lehet teljes az 1849. év történéseinek ismertetése nélkül, ezért a dolgozat és a téma ezirányú folytatása pro futuro várható - a következő Évkönyvben.

Tamás Antal

Public administration in Debrecen and the general meeting of people’s representatives in 1848

One hundred and fifty years after the 1848-49 Revolution and War of Independence we have, thanks to the work of our researchers, now become acquainted with most of the details of the events of those days. The subtle events and sophisticated truths of the past are revealed to the present by excellent studies and monographs. On the other hand, the processing of any kind of historical topic can never be regarded as absolutely completed; there may emerge newer and newer areas of research, which analyse and categorise the events in the already known fields of knowledge and deduce from them wider processes, in a different approach, from a different point of view.

Neither does the present study wish to do more: No matter that there have been several researchers concerned with the history of the Free Royal City of Debrecen in 1848-49 - for example István Szűcs in his monograph on the history of the City (1872), Dániel Zelizy (1882), and in the 20th century István Szabó in a voluminous monograph on the topic under study, and quite recently the 2nd volume of the serial work History of Debrecen, in a chapter by István Balogh, touch upon the topic — the detailed contemporaneous public administrative history of the City has not yet been written. The present study tries to make a modest attempt to make up for the deficiency mentioned - naturally, without any claim to completeness. The objective is to discuss - after describing the preliminaries - the establishment and operation of the first Assembly of People’s Representatives in Debrecen in the successful days from the middle of March 1848 until the end of the year.

The purpose of the author is to bring - in a multilateral survey - close to those interested the happenings and atmosphere of an era