The National Archives of Hungary (Budapest, 2006)

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL ARCHIVES OF NATIONAL COLLECTION - Hungarian National Archives by Géza Érszegi and István G. Vass

of artificial run-in records from different archives, most of which are from the archives of families. The archives were reconstructed in the first half of the 1950s in order to ease research. The written material regarding the Thököly revolt was collected from the materials of Thököly family and from Chambers of the settlements of Pozsony and Szepes.The material of the archives of Rákóczi War of Independence comes from the family archives of Rákóczi - Aspremont families and from the above mentioned cameralistic archives. Therefore certain governmental, reigning chancellery documents can be found in them, too. The Ministerial Archives of the years of 1848 and 1849 owe its formation to a variety of sources. They are as follows: the collection of Kossuth documents that arrived from Vienna in the 1960s, from the archives of chancellery, council of governor-general and chambers and the collection after the battle of Mohács, 1526. Besides the Hungarian Arhives ministerial records about the king as a person, home affairs, finance, public works and transport, agricultural, industrial and commercial, religious, public educational national defence management (the documents of Ministerial Provisional Board) can be found here as well. Most of the documents given over from the Archives of Vienna, (1000 - 1918 - section 1) became part of the Hungarian National Archives in 1927 and then others later through an agreement between the Hungarian and Austrian governments. (Baden, 1926) Its material is the documents of the Hungarian state provinentia. The collection includes mostly copies of certificates, medieval documents and files. Of particular interest are, the copied estates of Mr. Adám Ferenc Kollár, the royal librarian of Vienna and the written materials relating to Hungarian Parliament are significant although they are not of registratura type. The Archives of Government Agency of bourgeois, civil age, (1867 - 1945 - K section), include the official written material of Hungary. The government of the country changed in 1848 and then finally in 1867 from the former feudal state into a bourgeois, civil state based on parliamentary constitution. The government seat operating on a corporate basis in the Hungarian central Administration after 1867 was ineffective and replaced by the independent Hungarian ministry. Each member of the ministry - each minister was responsible for the official arrangement of different cases within his particular competency. The partner typed administration was replaced by the principle of personal responsibility; this occurred even within the departments inside of the ministries.The preparation of different clearances was done not by clerks but by ministerial departments. Decisions were made not by boards but by the