Csécs Teréz: Arrabona - Múzeumi Közlemények 51. (Győr, 2015)
Varga József: "Arany papnak - fakehely"
ARRABONA 2013. 51. TANULMÁNYOK FLÓRIS RÓMER AND THE MÁRIA DOROTHEA ASSOCIATION Flóris Römer (1815-1889) is generally known by the public as a Benedictine monk, archaeologist and art historian. At the same time he was attached to the education with a thousand bonds: he taught at the Benedictine Arch-Grammar School of Győr, in the meantime (after the War of Independence and his release from jail) he was a tutor in Pozsony for 2 years. Already at the beginning of July 1848 he proposed his elaborate views about the education reform of József Eötvös. At the “universal teachers’ congress” convened on 20th July 1848 he chaired the “section of teachers of higher education”. From 1862 he directed the Roman Catholic Arch- Grammar School of Buda, and later he became a university private teacher, unordinary teacher and finally ordinary teacher. While fulfilling these positions he got in touch with people who also did a lot for the education and the education staff, including Sándor Péterfy, “the father of Hungarian teachers” and creator of the House of Teachers and the Eötvös Foundation and Janka Zircen, the head of the first Hungarian state teacher training school, the library of which received 2000 books right from the National Museum where Römer worked. Due to these connections he had up-to-date information about the conditions of the education staff and the key problems of the women’s education. So, it was not accidental that they three were the very persons who initiated the creation of the first association of the Hungarian schoolmistresses in 1885: the Mária Dorothea Association with the purpose to help unemployed educators and schoolmistresses to find a job and provide assistance and social help to old or abandoned schoolmistresses. This paper highlights Rómer’s role in the creation and operation of this association. József Varga 340
