A Hajdú-Bihar Megyei Levéltár évkönyve 13. 1986 (Debrecen, 1986)
Tanulmányok - Tóth Béla: Az 1704. évi kollégiumi törvények
Uraimnak s’Atyáimnak nem nézvén alá való voltomat, hogy a’ klmtk Atyai Patroci- niuma és kegyes Favora alat továbrais maradhassak, hogy ebben a veszedelmes időben minden Atyai gondviselését és bene volentiáját nagy alázatossággal meg köszönhessem és minden engedelmességre Továbbra is ajánlhassam magamat. G[ene]rosor[um] D[omi]n[omm] Patronorfum] ac Clariss[imorum] Patrum humillimus Cliens Stephanus Hatházi Datfum] die 14 7bris (septembris — tőlem) A[nno] 1704.”23 A kollégiumban a tanítás, ha nagy zökkenőkkel is (az öt ízben való menekülés), az egész szabadságharc alatt folytatódott, s munkája Rákóczi erőteljes támogatását is élvezte. De ez már egy másik tanulmány tárgya. College laws of 1704 Béla Tóth The 18th century of the Calvinist College in Debrecen began with the student-rebellion of 1704. Its root grew in the conflict between the town and the College that had existed from very early times and were not completely terminated by the laws of 1657 either. Its direct cause lay in the efforts of the town administration to forestally any greater excesses by the students in the annoying situation that accompanied the beginning of the Rákóczi War of Independence. The announcement by the new “punctum”-s, acknowledged also by church leaders, the priest of the superintendency in Transtibiscia, by the ministers in Debrecen and by the dean of the tract in Transtibiscia as well as the directorate of town lead by the chief justice István Dobozi, was answered by the disobedience of the youth: the posters declaring the new laws were turn off the walls and the magistrates and professors were abused with “wiseless” words. The town council, however, did not retreat. In its session on the 12th August 1904 the new laws got their final forms and came into force; this fact was announced to college youth in the council’s still existing letter on the 24th of August. The new laws were based on the framwork of those of 1757. Their greatest novelty was that the patronate right of the town over the school was finally and clearly formulated, meaning that the independence of the old coetus was almost completely eliminated. Nothing was allowed to happen in the school’s life, any more without their knowing about it. They made decisions regarding the admission of pupils (teachers had already been selected and payed by them before) and they also controlled, through a selected curator, the internal life of the institute and even the selection of authors and books on which the lectures were based. Another feature of the laws was that they were much more detailed than the former ones, they also treated new phenomena and were, first of all, more rigorous. Their sanctions, for example, always used the form “strict order”, coming from Roman laws. They certainly narroved the scope of activities of the main pupil-officials at school, the senior and the contrascribe and of the “sedes scholastica”, directed by them. From this time on, that last organization the school and with milder delicts only. More severe cases had to be brought before the town council. The youth tried to defend itself, by the secession they had applied before, on the 24th of August, but the council did not make concessions and school life slowly consolidated. After this time until changes and newly declared laws in 1792, these laws determined, with minor modifications, the school life. The laws of both 1657 and of 1704 are seriously deficient in that, besides determining the external frames of teaching, do not even mention its contents and methods. Законы Коллегии 1704 года Бэла Тот XVIII век для дебреценской реформатской коллегии начался восстанием студентов в 1704 году. Корни этого уходят в существующие с самого начала напряженные противоречия между коллегией и городским советом, которые не были устранены и законами 1657 года, а непосредственной причиной этого волнения послужила та деятельность руководителей города, которая была направлена на то, чтобы среди волнующих явлений, сопровождающих начало 23 HBmL IV. А. 1011/1—1608—1766. 32
