Szamosújvár iskolái és diáksága 1716-1919 között
Students from the Armenian Schools of Szamosújvár (Gherla)

Summary/Abstract: The present thesis presents the analyses of students from the Armenian schools of Gherla. As work method it was used, in fi rst hand, the re-enactment of the list of students at the schools under study, upon the archive resources from the Romanian National Archives Cluj County Department and the Parish Archives and Library of the Armenian-Catholic Church from Gherla. The so gathered information was analysed after. This analysis presents in subdivisions the short history of each school, the comparison of data’s based on the perspective of geographical, social (father’s profession) and ethnic origin (religion). The schools in question: Armenian-catholic elementary school for boys (information about the girls were not found) – between 1873-1892 Professional school for crafts and commerce – between 1883-1907 Middle school for girls – between 1901-1919 Lower School for boys – between 1889-1894 High school for boys – between 1894-1919 The fi nal conclusion of this research was that the Armenian schools from Gherla had an important socio-cultural impact in the region (51% of the elementary school pupils, 53−73% of the professional school students, 68% of the boys from the middle school, and 69% of the students of the high school were not from Gherla). The ethnic percentage of students from Gherla shows that each ethnic group was represented according to the percentage in the community. It is important to notice that for the Romanian elite (priests, educators and land owners) these schools were an important factor for their socio-cultural emergence.

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