Membrii biroului redacțional al Enciclopediei Române

The paper aims to present the activity of the members of the workgroup that coordinated the first Romanian encyclopedia, published between 1896and 1904. The authors are working on publishing the correspondence the members of the editorial Board had with the over 200 collaborators. With this occasion they highlighted the intense activity, little known until now, carried out by the 6–7intellectuals from Sibiu who read the 60000 articles sent to their office, of which 37622 were published, they made corrections and wrote hundreds of letters. The members of the Board were in those years, at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the20th century, at the beginning of their career, some of them had a beautiful professional and social ascension in the next decades. The coordinator of the entire paper was Corneliu Diaconovici, at that moment he was the secretary of the cultural association Astra, under the auspice of which the encylopedia was published. The members of the editorial Board, presented in this paper, were: professors Ioan Popovici, Vasile Bologa,Ilie Moga and Ioan Fodor, priest Nicolae Togan, the medic Ilie Beu, the bank clerk Iulian Popescu; temporary, students Ilarie Chendi and Suciu have helped as well. The members of the Board also edited articles from their areas of specialization, especially when other collaborators were missing. They made a significat contribution in the development and pusblishing of the first Romanian encyclopedia, a true monument of the cultural unity of Romanians, then scattered over several states.