Development Status of classical archivistics to the 30s of XX century: Three archivistics manuals of universal significance

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present a theoretical review the developed state the of classical archivistics until the first three decades of the XX century, with the purpose of exposing the theories and references of the epistemological subjection of this science, that is, describe the budgets the technical scientific discourse in which orbits this scientific discipline. In order to develop some preliminary ideas on this discernment will raise first an overview of the first three manuals published and their authors within the European context. Then, we refer to the characterization of archival conceived to the period briefly describing the object study, the principles and fundamental concepts and processes treatment of document archival.

Keywords

• Ciencia Archivística
• Archivística clásica
• Muller, Samuel
• Feith, Johan
• Fruin, Robert
• Jenkinson, Hilary
• Casanova, Eugenio