Nederlandse financiële hulp aan het Gereformeerd College in Debrecen in de 18e eeuw
Dutch Financial Help for the Reformed College in Debrecen in the 18th Century

Summary/Abstract: Debrecen is famous for being the centre of Hungarian Calvinism. After the spread of the Reformation, the Reformed College maintained good contact with its Protestant brothers-in-faith. They could count on them in times of need. After the payment of the professors’ salary was prohibited by the Habsburgs in 1752, the professors of Debrecen requested help from those Dutch, Swiss and English Protestants with whom they had maintained centuries-long connections through the peregrinatio academica. In this paper, I deal with the financial support from the Netherlands. Between 1756 and 1792, the College received around 300 gulden from Dutch synods and the church council and parish of Amsterdam on a yearly basis, and the salary of the professors could be financed, at least partially, from this amount of money. This money had both a symbolic and political role: the Dutch brothers’-in-faith attention was also drawn to the difficult situation of the Hungarian Protestants.

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