Háromnyelvű levéltárismertető : The National Archives of Hungary : Das Ungarische Staatsarchiv : Les Archives Nationales de Hongrie

Ferenc Döry, Director József Herzog, Director of the National Archives of Hungary, of the National Archives of Hungary, 1932-1934 1934-1942 The 'old National Archives' served primarily as the archives of the Diet and the Palatine. The records of the royal government authorities (such as the Chancellery, the Regents Council and the Chamber) did not fall within its competence. Its first and main task was receiving, processing and preserving the records transferred by the Diet and the Palatine on a regular basis and, more occasionally, by families and private persons. During the revolution of 1848 the transformation of the archives appeared on the agenda to replace the institution, originally created to serve the founding organisations, with a new type of public archives serving historical research in the first place. The failure of the War of Liberation impeded the fulfilment of this plan. Nevertheless, time passed over the institution preserving an archival material of 350-400 linear metres, and when a Hungarian government responsible to Parliament was restored after the Austro-Hungarian Reconciliation CAusgleich') in 1867, historians proposed again the foundation of an entirely new 'Hungarian Royal State Archives'. On 19 September 1874 the Cabinet ordered that the archives and documents of the former government authorities together with the archives of the Hungarian and Transylvanian chancelleries and that of the offices of the former Transylvanian government should be integrated into a new National Archives. In the autumn of the same year, the King appointed the historian Cyula Pauler, a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Keeper of the National Archives. Cyula Pauler (1841-1903) was the organiser and first leader of the National Archives for