Dr. Péter Balázs: Guide to the archives of Hungary (Budapest, 1976)

Baranya Megyei Levéltár (Baranya County Archives)

Szentlórinc districts, the Pécs Attorney General's Office (1907-1944) and the Pécs Public Prosecution (1922-1944) are almost complete. Of the penitentiaries Baranya County Prison has left valuable source material (18511944). Of the institutes and institutions we preserve the material of the Pécs Episcopal Lyceum of Law (1826-1913) and the Elisabeth University of Pécs (1915-1944). The bulk of the university records after World War II are still in the custody of the institution. Research in the history of secondary education is made possible by the records and registers of the most important public schools: the Pécs Public School "Louis the Great" of the Cistercian Order from 1867 to 1948, the Pécs Episcopal Teachers' Training Institute from 1870 to 1948, the Higher Girls' School and Teachers' Training Institute of Our Lady's Order of the same period. Lower education is represented by the registers of 140 elementary schools. Of the institutions of hygiene the Archives preserves the records of the University Clinic No. 1 for Internal Diseases and of the Pécs City Hospital. The development of industry in the feudal period is illustrated by the fragmentary material of journals and records of the 17 guilds of Pécs and by the journals of the Siklós, Mohács, Szentlórinc and Szigetvár guilds. The corporations are represented by the fragmentary material of the Pécs Advocates' Chamber (1876-1944), the Pécs Physicians' Chamber (19201944), the Notaries' Chamber (1876-1950) and the forest communities of 85 parishes. The archives of the Baranya County Economic Association (1876-1944) contains important source material on the capitalistic development of the cultivation of plants, the keeping of animals and of agriculture in general. The records of the political parties of the bourgeois period have been annihilated during World War II. The repository preserves those of a single one: the Baranya County Organisation of the National Unity Party (19321942). Of the records of organisations of specialized and economic character the Public Welfare Cooperative of Baranya County (1930-1944) deserves mention. For the research in industrial and agrarian history the Fiscal Mine Board (1808-1945), the József Angster and Son Organ- and Harmonium Fabric, the Hamerli Glove Fabric and the Vilmos Zsolnay Ceramic Works have produced valuable records. The papers of the agricultural estates are our most precious archival groups. An outstanding source value may be attributed to the Boly estate of the family Batthyány-Montenuovo (1718-1945), the Pécsvárad Public Foun-