Mihalik Kálmán, a kolozsvári unitárius kollégium és a Székely himnusz 100. évfordulója
Kálmán Mihalik, the 100th Anniversary of the Székely Anthem, and the Unitarian High School in Kolozsvár

Summary/Abstract: In 1921, one year after the Treaty of Trianon, the Székely anthem was created with lyrics by György Csanády (1895–1952) from Székelyudvarhely (Odorheiu Secuiesc) and music composed by Kálmán Mihalik (1896–1922). It soon became the often-prohibited and persecuted anthem of the Székelys. In Romania it was considered an irredentist song, and between 1946 and 1989 its singing was forbidden both in Romania and in Hungary. While it has been written in many places that Mihalik Kálmán graduated from the Catholic Piarist High School in Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca), and it is true that he was enrolled there, he transferred to the Unitarian high school in Kolozsvár, where he completed the last two years of his studies and graduated at the end of the 1914–1915 school year. He then began his medical studies at Kolozsvár’s Ferencz József University. But World War I interrupted his studies and he served as a soldier and fought on the front for many years. After the Treaty of Trianon, the Ferencz József University was evacuated to Szeged, where Mihalik and many of his colleagues continued their studies. He became a research physician, but four months after the presentation of the Székely anthem, he died of typhus on September 6, 1922, at the age of 26. Today, in a corridor of the John Sigismund Unitarian High School in Kolozsvár, one can still find a photo of Kálmán Mihalik among those of his classmates on the commemorative plaque for the class of 1914–1915.

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