Az Erdélyi Fiatalok és a Bánffyak
The Erdélyi Fiatalok and the Bánffys

Summary/Abstract: The movement and journal called Erdélyi Fiatalok (Transylvanian Youth, operated between 1930 and 1940) was founded by a new generation of Transylvanian Hungarians, members of a national minority who proposed a scope of public service after World War I. Above village research work, they aimed to secure intellectual reinforcement as well as to raise Hungarian villages. Numerous members of the aristocratic Bánffy family played an important role in Hungarian culture, economics and politics, like baron Ferenc Bánffy, a landowner peer, count Miklós Bánffy, a culture organizer and novelist, or baron Dániel Bánffy, who was also interested in agriculture. There was one leader of the movement, who got in connection with all of these aristocrats, between 1931 and 1944. He was Imre Mikó, a lawyer, who published his work called Az erdélyi falu és a nemzetiségi kérdés (The Transylvanian village and nationality issues) with Ferenc Bánffy’s support, in 1932. Between 1939 and 1940, Mikó became confidant of Miklós Bánffy, president of the Hungarian People’s Community in Romania, while later, as a secretary general of the Transylvanian Party, Mikó co-worked with the minister of agriculture, Dániel Bánffy in the Hungarian Parliament. This study is a demonstration of these culturehistorical relations.

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