Tinerii ardeleni la academiile şi universităţile din Ungaria înaintea anului 1848
Young Transylvanians in the Academies and Universities from Hungary before 1848

Summary/Abstract: Beginning with the 8th decade of the 20th century the research of the academic pilgrimage has come into consideration, laid on a more certain documentary basis, in the interpretation of data and facts, and in their presentation in the historical discourse by applying to modern, interdisciplinary methods. Several studies and volumes have been since published, comprising in a nominal manner about ten thousands of learned Transylvanian intellectuals from 1173 to 1849. Nevertheless, there are no conclusive data about the attendance of academies and universities in Hungary by the Transylvanians. The present study is destined to this problem, but such a research being not completed, the results are preliminary. However, they allow us to draw new conclusions in the study of the Enlightenment, Reformism, of the way the 1848 revolutionary spirit grew mature in frame of Transylvania’s complex background. As a result or this research we note that, in the period studied by us, in Trnavia, Buda and Pest, in Schemnitz, Sárospatak, Debrecen, Estergom, Pozsony, Keszthely and Magyaróvár studied at least 1781 Transylvanian scholars, who, on their return to Transylvania, functioned as priests, druggists, physicians, surgeons, veterinary surgeons, engineers and office workers in mining and metallurgy, geometer engineers, agronomists and landowners, lawyers and jurists, sylviculturists and inspectors of forests, chamber office workers etc. raising the numbers of the Transylvanian intellectual élite originated in all the nationalities belonging to Transylvania.

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