20 Facts About Sever Zotta

Sever Ioan Zotta was a Romanian archivist, genealogist, historian and publicist, corresponding member of the Romanian Academy.

The Zotta family has a history dating back to the 16th century in the Principality of Moldavia.

Sever Zotta, a descendant, was a well-known genealogist and historian in Romania.

Sever Zotta studied law and social sciences, founded the Genealogical Archive magazine, and served as director of the State Archives in Iasi from 1912 to 1934.

Sever Zotta was a correspondent member of the Romanian Academy and co-founded the Society of History and Archeology in Iasi with historian Gheorghe Ghibanescu.

Sever Zotta's father was president of the political society Concordia, between 1891 and 1896, executive member of the country's culture society and of the Society for Romanian Culture and Literature in Bukovina.

Sever Zotta took his law degree in Bucharest, in 1904, with the thesis: The lease agreement in Roman and Romanian law.

Sever Zotta founded the Genealogical Archive magazine that has appeared from January 1,1912, which would be, as Zotta said, the alien to political struggles and far from any snobbish tendency of social differentiation.

At the State Archive in Iasi, whose rich deposits Sever Zotta began to explore at his arrival in Iasi, the vacancy of the head of the Archive had become vacant, because o the retirement of Gheorghe Ionescu-Gion in October 1912.

Sever Zotta was the successor of Ioan Tanoviceanu.

Sever Zotta has carried out a rich publicity activity based primarily on the country's documentary treasury, gathered at the State Archives repositories.

Sever Zotta founded the first specialized publication "Genealogical Archive".

The entire archives with the Sever Zotta works are in the Archives of Bucharest and Iasi.

Apart from these documents, studies and notes on the genealogy of some noble families and documents collected by Sever Zotta can be found.

Sever Zotta lived in Iasi by 1934, when he retired.

Surprised by the events of the summer of 1940 at his home in Davydivka, Sever Zotta preferred to stay on site to save library and the manuscript collection.

Sever Zotta died in a Gulag prison in Orsk, in the south of the Urals, in October 1943.

Sever Zotta was decorated with the Order of the Star of Romania in the rank of cavalier.

Sever Zotta has opened a road by which the nowadays genealogies of the Boerian families from Moldova are going.

Sever Zotta had a rich publishing activity in the field of historical research, in the such magazines such as The Archive, Ion Neculce, Literary Talks, The Event, The Romanian People, Opinion, The Archive Magazine, The Historical Magazine.