ACADEMIA DE DREPT DIN ORADEA - CONTRIBUȚII LA ISTORIA ÎNVĂȚĂMÂNTULUI JURIDIC DIN TRANSILVANIA
ACADEMY OF LAW FROM ORADEA - CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF LAW EDUCATION IN TRANSYLVANIA

Summary/Abstract: In the present study, we tried to retrace the path traveled over the centuries by the law education in the Kingdom of Hungary, that of Transylvania and, in particular, that of the city of Oradea. Our approach was justified by the fact that in 1465 King Matthew Corvin had the opportunity to choose the city of Oradea as the seat of a new university that was to be established in the Kingdom of Hungary. Unfortunately, it was the financial motivation that led the king to choose the city of Bratislava over Oradea, although the Transylvanian city already had a tradition of top-ranking educational institutions. A chapter school has operated here since the 13th century, then a Jesuit gymnasium, a Calvin gymnasium and from the 18th century a law academy. The latter operated until 1934, when it was absorbed by the University of Cluj. In other words, higher education in Oradea already had a secular tradition. In the second part of the study, we tried to decipher the motivation that led to the choice of the city of Cluj as the center of university education in Transylvania. I came to the conclusion that this city, in the context of the creation of the new state Greater Romania, had to be consolidated as the cultural capital of the Transylvanian Romanians, a center intended to ensure the formation of the Romanian intellectuals so necessary in the institutions of administration, economy and education in the region.

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