The Minerva Institute of Literature and Typography Corporation (1920-1948) – part 1. History of the Most Important Newspaper, Book and Coursebook Publishing House of Transsylvania Cover Image

A Minerva Irodalmi és Nyomdai Műintézet Rt. (1920–1948) – 1. rész. Erdély legnagyobb lap-, könyv- és tankönyvkiadójának történetéhez
The Minerva Institute of Literature and Typography Corporation (1920-1948) – part 1. History of the Most Important Newspaper, Book and Coursebook Publishing House of Transsylvania

Author(s): Zoltán Tibori Szabó
Subject(s): Media studies, Theory of Communication
Published by: Medea Egyesület
Keywords: Minerva; book publishing; newspaper publishing; intellectual workshop; value creation

Summary/Abstract: In the first two decades – between 1920 and 1940 – of Hungarian minority existence in Transsylvania, as well as in the next eight years – 1940-1948 – the Minerva Institute of Literature and Typography Corporation Cluj, was the Hungarian publishing and typography company with the largest capacity in Transsylvania. It, endorsed significantly the growth of Hungarian education,press, literature, science and arts. Its founders conceived it as the keystone of information, cultivation and self-organization of the Transsylvanian Hungarians, as an institution that acts in behalf of the preservation, development, cultivation and the endorsing of self-identity of the community.

  • Issue Year: V/2010
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 11-24
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Hungarian
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