A Magyar Hírmondó szerepe Benkő József literatúratörténet-írói tevékenységében
The Role of Magyar Hírmondó Magazine in the Literary Historian Activity of József Benkő

Summary/Abstract: The study presents the correspondent activity of József Benkő that he carried out in the journal Magyar Hírmondó. We examined the topic of his writings in the magazine and tried to show whether or not these publications were related to his activity as a literary historian. In addition to this, we tried to show whether his writings contributed to the development of the concept of publishing a new volume that would have included information on the cultural life of Transylvania. The results of our research show clearly that half of the published writings present the careers of scientists, the history of scientific institutions, the detail of research trips, etc., so these publications fall within the conception of literary history. Benkő, although he could not write a new volume, through the character and theme of these articles he developed his chapter De re literaria in Transsilvania of his work published in 1778.

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