The 100 anniversary of the publishing of the journal of the Royal Croatian, Slavonic, Dalmatian National Archives (1899-1999)

Ovim radom autor želi pokazati kakav je bio položaj Zemaljskog arhiva Kraljevine Hrvatske, Slavonije i Dalmacije - središnje arhivske ustanove onoga vremena, kao i njegovo značenje za hrvatsku kulturu i znanost, posebice za arhivstvo toga vremena. Vezano uz to, obrazlaže i značenje pojave prvoga arhivističkog časopisa u Hrvatskoj, što ga je Zemaljski arhiv počeo izdavati 1899. godine pod nazivom Viestnik Kr. hrv. slav. dalm. Zemaljskog arkiva. Časopis je doduše bio više povijesnog usmjerenja negoli arhivističkog, objavljivao je arhivsko gradivo te donosio vijesti i pregled stručne povijesne literature, ali je svakako i unaprijedio tadašnju arhivsku praksu svojim redovitim izlaženjem, kao i razmjenom publikacija s drugim arhivskim i srodnim ustanovama u Europi i svijetu.In this article the author wants to explore what was the real meaning and importance of the very publishing of the first archival periodical publication - the Journal of the Royal Croatian, Slavonic, Dalmatian National Archives for Croatian culture and science and, first of all, for the archival science in those times in Croatia. The chief editor was the director of the National Archives of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia, doctor of the historical auxiliary sciences, Ivan Bojničić of Knin, who has undertaken all possible administrative measures to publish this periodical. In 1870, according to the Law on Archives, there was only four persons active in the National Archives. So, publishing of this periodical was a relatively great achievement. The main concept was to publish archival documents as sources for the Croatian history, in general, then to publish inventories or reviews of the main archives in Croatia and to publish reviews of the historical and other professional literature that was publish either in Croatia or abroad, mostly in Hungary, Austria, Italy or elswhere in Europe. The National Archives and Bojničić himself succeded in publishing regularly this Journal as the first and oldest archival periodical in Croatia, although it was much more a historical than really an archival, professional review. Indeed, Bojničić himself wanted, a few years later, to change the title of the periodical and proposed a new title, "The Historical Review", instead "The Review of the State Archives"