SOUP KITCHENS IN CLUJ-NAPOCA IN 1817
SOUP KITCHENS IN CLUJ-NAPOCA IN 1817

Summary/Abstract: The great famine in Transylvania between 1813 and 1817 had a great effect on the economy and society. The rising number of the starving people and the consequences of the famine demanded actions from the Transylvanian Gubernium and put the municipalities under great pressure. One of the solutions to provide food for the starving people was the Rumford soup. The paper examines the question of how the Cluj-Napoca city administration and the local population tried to curb the famine and discusses the establishment and operation of soup kitchens in Cluj-Napoca in the final year of the famine.

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