Dan Dumitru Iacob

Institutul de Cercetări Socio-Umane Sibiu / Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities in Sibiu · Urban History

The subject of this article refers to a lesser-known cartographic source, regarding the most important city of Moldavia, Iași, and its neighboring area. The source is entitled “Plan von der moldauischen Hauptstadt Jassy und ihrer Gegend” [The Plan of Moldavian Capital Iași and its Surroundings] and probably was drawn by an Austrian staff officer in...

The subject of this article is a plan of a large boyar property in Iași create by the surveyor engineer Gheorghe Filipescu Dubău, on 25th of April 1869, based on information extracted from the old property documents of the Bogdan family, from the eighteenth century. This veritable urban estate had an area of 79 hectares, was located on the coast of...

In this study we set out to present an unknown map regarding the capital of the Principality of Moldavia, Iași city, and its surroundings from the middle of the 19th century. The map is entitled Jassi und Umgebung, it is provided by the Military Archives in Vienna (Kriegsarchive) and was created during the Austrian military occupation of Moldavia (...

The subject of this study refers to several aspects of the life and activity of a military who, although was well‐known among his arms companions through his virtues and good deeds, didn’t have the chance of a historical posterity. The character of our current research is a foreigner whose destiny brought him on Romanian lands for a short time, a s...

The objective of this article is to present an unknown original plan of Focşani town inventoried at the Austrian State Archives in Vienna. It was realized in the course of the Austrian military occupation of Romanian Principalities (1855–1857), during the Crimean War. Due to its scale (1:14 400) the plan provides an accurate perspective of the town...

In this case study, we try to reconstitute the journey of a Moldovan boyar abroad, as it’s reflected in the travel expenses documents. In the autumn of 1853, the great treasurer Nicolae Rosetti-Roznovanu travelled to Vienna and Paris to send his son to school and solve his own medical problems. Besides his son, Nicolae (Nunuţă), and his private tea...

The subject of this study are the two topographical plans of the Focșanii Munteni town and its estate, on the border between Wallachia and Moldavia. These plans were carried out in 1848 by topographers Gheorghe Scipion and Constantin Aninoşanu and were used in the emancipation process of the urban community under the mastery of St. John's Monastery...

The subject of this study are the two topographical plans of the Focșanii Munteni town and its estate, on the border of Wallachia with Moldavia. These plans were carried out in 1848 by topographers Gheorghe Scipion and Constantin Aninoşanu and were used in the emancipation process of the urban community under the mastery of St. John's Monastery, wh...

In this article we have decided to present some original documents on which it can partially restore the economic situation of the hermitage Brătești, near Paşcani. The hermitage was established in 1733/1734, by boyar Iordache Cantacuzino, the landlord of Paşcani estate, and it was abolished in 1902. In four and five decades of 19th century the Bra...

The objective of this article is to present an unknown original map of Roman town and to the southern and western countryside area of the town. The map is inventoried at the Austrian State Archives in Vienna, under the title Plan von Roman, 1856, and was conducted during the Austrian military occupation of Moldova from 1855 to 1857, during the Crim...

Smaranda Balș (1785?–17.09.1848), born Sturdza, is a prominent figure of feminine elite in Moldova, in the first half of nineteenth century. She was married with the great treasurer (mare vistiernic) Alexandru Balș from Dumbrăveni. In 1833, shortly after her husband’s death, she made her will, and in 1848, after her death, the authorities drew up t...

Although the inventory of the goods is an activity that precede the advent of writing, artefacts and documents resulted, like as probate inventories (inventories of assets), have been used as historical sources only for two centuries and only in the last decades they have been observed thoroughly. An inventory of goods is, in the first place, an ec...

The topic of this volume focuses on the spaces and forms of sociability and entertainment preferred by the modern Romanian elites and on their importance in establishing and displaying a new social identity.

The volume includes studies about the material and cultural patrimonies of the social elites from Romanian countries, in the 16-19 centuries, with emphasis on Moldova and Wallachia situation. However, attention is also paid to the assets of other social categories, such as peasantry and townspeople, which are especially prevalent in Transylvania, a...

The vornic Gheorghe Beldiman’s last will, hitherto unpublished, gives a comprehensive picture about the fortune accumulated by this Moldavian great boyar until the end of his life. His material heritage was made up of estates, vineyards, apiaries, houses, pubs and shops located in Fălciu, Iași, Galați and Cernăuți counties and in Iași, Vaslui and F...

In the first half of the nineteenth century, there was a significant change in the musical life of the Romanian society. Musical tastes of the elite from Romanian Principalities has changed, passing from the folk and Oriental music, performed by folk musicians and orchestras of the Turkish princely court, to classical music, played by foreign artis...

Condemned by secular and ecclesiastical authorities since the Middle Ages, the duel was sanctioned by modern codes of law. In the mid-nineteenth century, in most European countries, among which the Romanian principalities, the duel was considered delictum sui generis, being punished by special laws or other penalties from the civil or military crim...

In the first half of the 19th century the most important public spaces in Iasi and Bucharest – the capitals of Moldavia and Wallachia principalities –, were promenades because, excepting fashionable salons, the elite social life was concentrated there. The finest and the most frequented promenades were Kiseleff Avenue, in Bucharest, and Copou Avenu...

Charity activities had an important role in the starting up and the maintaining the first modern hospitals from the Romanian principalities, the process being developed in the 18-19 centuries. The most donors were from boyar’s class and their charity initiatives were supported by the most important institutions of the times: the Reign and the Churc...

The subject of this study refers to the location of the synagogues in the urban perimeter of Iaşi town at the middle of 19th century. The main documentary support of this analysis is an unpublished document, more exactly a list of the synagogues from Iaşi at the 1st of November 1843 (see annex 1). The studying of the document has been preceded by t...

The article presents, for short, the law about urban planning of Iasi, the capital of Moldavian Principality, in the first half of 19th century, and practical effects of this law. It is emphasized the way of protection and the modernization of the down town through many urban public works, as we can mention: the streets enlargement, the traffic flo...

Balls represented the most important events of Romanian high life in mid-19th century, eliciting the admiration of contemporaries through frequency of occurrence and splendor, exclusiveness and massive attendance, as well as implications and social effects. Being real shows of high life, balls offered a proper environment for entertainment, sociali...

The census of Vaslui town in 1828, even incomplete, offers new information about demographically and social development of the town, but also about' the evolution of fiscal classes (tax payers, privileged et alii). In the relation with other sources, it presents interest for onomastic and genealogical potential which it possesses. Through a complet...

One of the many projects proposed by the Reglement Organique for the capitals' modernization and systematization of the Danubian Principalities it mainly concerns the location of signs with streets' names and houses' numbers in these towns. In Bucharest the carrying out of this project began in 1832. In Iasi the project had started much later, betw...

The paperwork presents an urban evolution episode of Iasi, in 1844-1848, about the short existence of a marketplace near Saint Parascheva church. In the context of the materialisation of an ample public utility project, through which was setting up four squares near some churches in Iasi, the authorities has been going to change a private property,...

The police of Jassy has its origins in a medieval military institution: the Agia. Between 1741 and 1832, the Agia has got more and more police functions in Jassy, the capital of the Moldavian Principality, and in this way it looses its military essential features; therefore the Agia turns into a local institution from a central institution. After t...