Aranka György levelezése
The Correspondence of György Aranka

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this study is the history of György Aranka’s correspondence as a special group of texts within the Aranka-collection, as well as the history of the almost two hundred years of research carried out on this text-corpus. Following the overview of previous research, I present the process through which, out of the great amount of information referring to the correspondence, at first a chronological repertoire was born, and then, as an end result, a complex database was formed, which, beside making systematization possible, allowed for search and study based on various criteria. While presenting the database I gave special attention to the stages of its design and structure: to determining the elements and structure of the data, establishing the fields, regulating the way these relate to each other, loading data into the database, and last, but not least, choosing the criteria for a complex search. With the statistics and indexes obtained with the help of the database I intended to demonstrate the significance of this correspondence in terms of the history of science and institutions, as well as to showcase the organization work carried out by György Aranka in the field of science in Transylvania during the age of the Enlightenment.

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