Egyháztörténeti Szemle 18. (2017)
2017 / 2. szám - SUMMARIES IN ENGLISH - Szakál Anna: An Ethnographic Collector of the 19th Century Hungary: Life of Sándor Ürmösi - Bátoriné Misák Marianna: Zsarnay Lajos’s Sermons in the Light of the 19th Century
116 Egyháztörténeti Szemle XVIII/2 (2017) An Ethnographic Collector of the 19th Century Hungary: Life of Sándor Ürmösi I. Szakái, Anna The lengthy case study seeks to explore from a micro-historical perspective the life of a lesser-known collector involved in the most canonic 19th century Transylvanian folk-poetry collecting. The goal of this study is to present the most accurate picture possible of the social background underlying the collector network of the ‘Wild Roses’ (Vadrózsák) - published in 1863 — and through this the small world of the 19th century Unitarian pastors and teachers. This first part of the study reveals the early life of Sándor Ürmösi - his family, relatives who became intellectuals, scholastic progress, possible influences in college, promising beginnings, committed collecting of folklore, and publication of a contradictory nevertheless successful book. The author strove for applying all available sources - printed or handwritten - to introduce the life of the 19th century Unitarian pastor Sándor Ürmösi as accurately as possible. Alongside folkloristic sources church history documents (e.g. visitation logs, Episcopal and decanal correspondence, registers of births, marriages and deaths) and school history documents (e.g. parish registers, reading society logs, handwritten sheets) were applied. Most primary handwritten sources were unearthed in Transylvanian parochial and national archives. The research was made difficult due to the fact that documents were only arranged by year, or not at all. Zsarnay Lajos’s Sermons in the Light of the 19th Century Bátoriné Misák, Marianna In the study, the author examines Zsarnay Lajos funeral speeches in the light of 19th century intellectual trends. These words throws particularly scrutinized in terms of the extent to reflect the spirit of the age, in particular, to the eternal life, resurrection, and at all the facts of death of the formulation. Reading the funeral speeches and analyzed to determine whether the kind of Zeitgeist, which had been characterized by the emergence of different directions to the pastor, he could not be found. Did not question the biblical truths, not rejected dogmas which are the foundations of the Reformed Church. In contrast to the Zeitgeist of the author find her utterances about the eternal life, resurrection, which such beliefs stemming from their conviction formulated. Not all worth sermon reflected in these biblical truths to the specific wording, because sometimes you just describe them, but in any case refer to them. ‘It is no doubt a side that like Lazarus, so we can resurrect a word when the Almighty.’
