Changes in the Officers of Székely Seats from the Compromise of 1867 to the Dissolution of the Seats Cover Image

A székely székek tisztikarának változásai a kiegyezéstől a székek felszámolásáig
Changes in the Officers of Székely Seats from the Compromise of 1867 to the Dissolution of the Seats

Author(s): Judit Pál
Subject(s): Political history, Social history, 19th Century
Published by: Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület
Keywords: Szekler officials; Compromise of 1867; administrative elite; composition of the civil servants corps;

Summary/Abstract: The study is a prosopographic analysis of the Szekler officials in the period immediately following the Austro-Hungarian Compromise. I sought answers to the question: to what extent did the political change affect the civil service in the Szekler seats, respectively to what extent did the civil servants before the Revolution of 1848, those during the Revolution, during neo-absolutism, those from 1861 and from 1862-1867 survive or return to power? The analysis revealed that in the summer of 1867 there were major changes, which means that we are dealing with a total change of the administrative elite, and most of the new officials were new people, except in the seat of Odorhei, where the officials mostly returned from 1861. Next, the study followed the changes in the administrative elite of the Szekler seats, respectively of the counties until 1884, to see to what extent the composition of the civil servants corps was affected by the administrative-territorial reform of 1876, which resulted in the abolition of both the Szekler and Saxon seats.

  • Issue Year: LXXXIII/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 99-116
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Hungarian