Egy erdélyi forradalmi népszónok 1848/49-ben
A Transylvanian Revolutionary Priest in 1848/49

Summary/Abstract: János Bardocz, a talented young priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Transylvania, after a short period as a chaplain in Cluj/Kolozsvár, moved to Alba Iulia/Gyulafehérvár in 1848, where he taught at the main grammar school. A sermon he preached in the cathedral of Gyulafehérvár on 8 October 1848, expressing radical political views, led to the castle commander Ferenc Horák demanding his removal from the city. After the castle was placed under siege, Bardocz was ordered by his bishop to go to Târgu Mureş/Marosvásárhely, but he left for Budapest instead. In several newspaper articles he demanded the armed defence of the country against the counter-revolution and called on the Szeklers to rise up. In early January 1849, he fled to Debrecen and then to Oradea/Nagyvárad, where he gave speeches promoting the ideas of the revolution. At the end of March, he was in Kolozsvár, where he not only agitated for a republican form of government, but also presented the Hungarians as a chosen people, similar to the Jewish people. He was arrested after the suppression of the War of Independence, but escaped from his prison in Marosvásárhely and emigrated.

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