Universitäts- und Gymnasialmatrikeln als Quellen für die siebenbürgische genealogisch-prosopografische Forschung
University and Secondary School Matriculation Registers as Sources for Transylvanian Genealogical and Prosopographical Researches

Summary/Abstract: This article presents important older and more recent sources for genealogical research and studies in the cultural history of the Transylvanian Saxons. The Hungarian-language publications of the historians Sándor Tonk (Klausenburg) and Miklós Szabó (Neumarkt am Mieresch) include the academically educated Transylvanians from the beginnings (12th century) to Modernism, until 1850. Since in the Transylvania before 1872 there was no comprehensive university, the academic elite had to secure its young generation by sending the youth to study at foreign universities and high schools in many European countries. Tonk (1979) presents the students from Transylvania that studied at universities abroad in the Middle Ages until 1520, then Szabó and Tonk (1992) those who were enrolled in the Early Modern Period from 1521 to 1700, followed by Szabó and Szögi (1998), finally Szabó, Simon and Szögi (2014) provide a record of the Transylvanian students until 1918. Prof. László Szögi (Archive of the University Eötvös Loránd of Budapest) started the project on students from historical Hungary abroad in modern times 25 years ago. 23 of the 24 volumes are already published and are listed here. There are also presented two volumes relating to the Middle Ages (Vienna, Krakow and Prague). In addition, it is shown that Transylvanian Saxons are not only to be found exclusively at high schools in the Saxon cities, but also at the reformed colleges of Neumarkt am Mieresch (Târgu Mureș) and Großenyed /Straßburg am Mieresch (Aiud), as well as at the Roman-Catholic Royal Lyceum of Klausenburg (Cluj-Napoca). These findings come from the four books (Tonk, 1994, Jakó and Juhász, 1979 and Varga Júlia, 2000 and 2007 respectively). Finally, it should be pointed out that some German professional schools (not grammar schools) also have published the names of their pupils (Rudolf David: Gremialhandelsschule zu Kronstadt, 1941). The article points to a minority of the Transylvanian Saxons, who had migrated to Old-Romania (Moldavia and Wallachia) and founded there their evangelical church-communities and schools. This minority is recommended to be taken into consideration as well by the genealogical and prosopographical studies on the Transylvanian Saxons (Stache and Theilemann, 2012).

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