STUDENŢI DIN TURDA LA MARILE UNIVERSITĂŢI EUROPENE ÎN EVUL MEDIU ȘI ÎN EPOCA PREMODERNĂ
STUDENTS FROM TURDA AT THE GREAT EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES DURING THE MIDDLE AGES AND PRE-MODERN ERA

Summary/Abstract: The content of this article falls in with cultural history and contains a presentation of students from Turda. Turda was a center of some importance in Transylvania during Middle Ages and pre-Modern era. This was reflected in the number of students from Turda at the major European universities. The first student from Turda was recorded in 1412 at the University of Vienna, Johannes Gregorii Zompol de Torda. Most of the students from Turda chose the University of Kraków, as this town was closest to their hometown. The evolution of the student population from Turda is found in two distinct phases: the first period is from 1412 until 1539 when 42 students enrolled mostly at the University of Kraków and the second period spans from 1555 until 1700 when the number of these students decreased to ten, four of whom chose the University of Wittenberg. This situation was a result of cultural isolation of Transylvania after the Battle of Mohács. On the other hand, through its students, Turda was connected with the European ideas of the time, the Medieval Scholasticism or the new ideas promoted by the Protestant Reformation. Of all the students from Turda, only thirteen were able to obtain the first academic degree artium baccalaureus and one of them was awarded a doctorate degree at the University of Padua. This person was a monk, Thomas de Torda and he became a professor at that university. This fact was unique in the history of Turda. Unfortunately, there is still a great lack of data about the students from Turda, mainly their subsequent career. Generally, it is known that they pursued the ecclesiastical career; a former student at Wittenberg became the second reformed bishop of Transylvania.

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