„A ’Kegyes Oskolák Rendje’ Magyar és Erdély Országi Halhatatlan Érdemű Fő Igazgatójának” emlékére
Márton Bolla as a Teacher in Kolozsvár

Summary/Abstract: Márton Bolla was one of the most important figures of the Piarist fathers who arrived to Cluj/Kolozsvár in 1776. He was in the first group of the Piarist fathers, the religious male order that took over the school in the town of Cluj/Kolozsvár after the Jesuits were forced to give it up. At first he taught poetics and rhetorics, afterwards he found his true vocation when he started teaching history. He was a conservative with a classical culture, he wrote poetry, had as his friend another Piarist, Miklós Révay, who was quite a good poet of his time. Bolla spent 23 years in the Transylvanian town: the best years of his life. He was 25 when he arrived and 48 when he left Cluj/Kolozsvár. As a teacher his ’masterpiece’ were his pupils, among them not only the ones he educated and taught at school but also his private students, among them sons of the elite families of that time. He wrote and published quite a few important books while in the town, poetry, dramatic work and history. As a man of classical culture appreciated works written in Latin, but as he was an artists and a man of much sensitivity, he also wrote and published poems in the vernacular: in Hungarian. Thus he was among those who opened a new direction for national literature.

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