Dénes Dienes: History of the Reformed Church Collég in Sárospatak (Sárospatak, 2013)
Dénes Dienes: THE PROTESTANT SCHOOL IN THE 16TH CENTURY - The humanist Reformed college 1577-1599
17 follows: “an excellent man of the highest orthodox truth with a healthy theological knowledge”. In 1588 Fegyvernek! was able to get his friend, András Károlyi, who had just returned from studies abroad, employed as a fellow teacher. Károlyi did not become lector nor second teacher but rector. “This was the brief period in the Sárospatak school’s 16th century history when the educational institution had two teachers of the same rank. [...] This innovation came hand in hand with another one, that being the introduction in 1588 of two rectors alternating on a monthly basis and holding monthly disputations, a type of teaching model which was more characteristic of universities. It is to be added here that, starting in 1586, Imre Újfalvi, a former student collaborator, provided extra manpower in assuming the role of a teaching assistant for younger students. It can thus be said that, in 1588, the school attained its highest level of standards ever up to that point. It can perhaps be rightly supposed that this was an experiment in trying to develop the school in Patak into a university or college level institution”. The early death of Fegyverneki resulted in Demeter Krak- kai from Transylvania becoming the lector. A former student of Patak himself, he had studied in Strasbourg and Padua, as well as in Wittenberg. For a time, his fellow teacher (lector) was Gergely Váci who had also been a student in Sárospatak. He was the alumnus of Ferenc Dobó and his wife, Judit Kerecsényi in Wittenberg and Heidelberg, and he also made an appearance in England. Due to the frequent change of teachers, the suggestion arose to invite Albert Molnár Szenei, who was living in Germany, to come to Patak but he declined the invitation. The 16th century Protestant school in Sárospatak tracked a good evolutionary curve of development. For most of its students, the primary attraction for enrollment was still the characteristically strong humanist literacy program. Of the students, almost fifty are known by name. It is obvious from this student list that the College was not only frequented by those preparing for a profession in the ecclesiastical sphere, but present were also those who later became intellectuals in the secular world. The first page of Izsák Present also were representatives of the highly cultivated circles of the local Fegyverneki’s theological Patak society, as well as members of the nobility and aristocracy. Through its dictionary teachers and students, the school became one of the important links in the national and European Protestant network system. In all certainty, in terms of national influences absorbed, the school received its most significant impetus from Bártfa, but the spirit of the school in Tolna, once integrated in Patak, was also able to make its presence felt. With Tolna, the interaction of effect was mutual because Patak was not only on the receiving end of things but also sent teachers to the market town of Tolna, even in the difficult years when Tolna was under foreign occupation. There were also contacts in the regions east of the Tisza River (with Debrecen and Mezőtúr) and with Transylvania. The effect was most significantly felt in the most proximate geographical area where schools with high standards evolved in several small market towns of the Hegyalja region during A Ab t & Q pro principio & fine, id eft, Ante quou nihil eft, & per quo omnia fa- £tafunt,quOw.que vt omnia intereant, fuperftes manelit,Eíáix41.4. &44. 9& 48.11. Apocal.i.8. & i.#.& 11.6. U Aaron,Vide Aharon. Ab ac vc, Vide Hab ac vc. Ab ad don, Antichrifti epitheton, Apoe.p.il. Ab ari m, mofisNcbo: hinc confpicerc terram Cha- naan Mofcs iubeturjNum.xy.ix. Deut.ji.49. illic moritur Mofes, 34.V.1.* Abba, vocabulum Syriacum, ter inuenitur in no uo Tcftamento,M:urc.i4-56. Rom.*?.!<. Gai a 6.Si vbi- aue explanandi gratja additur pater. Abba (Syriacc^patrcmappellatChiiAus.Ma c *4.$*. Abba Patrem Deum vocant fidele*, kom.S-i^. Galat. 4- 6. Abdemei.e ch,Eunuchus Acrhiopsorat pro liberatione Icremi.T,le.ein.jy.v.8 o. cam impet at v. io. procurat&prxfta,t, v.H.ii.ij. Uberaturagtawio ChalAo rum, 9 v.l6.17. Abdenago,appellaturAzartas,Daniel.1.7. mittitur in fornacem, $.xt. Abpias , oeconomus domus Achab, l.R esMÄ.tJ. ein* £ 'ictas in timendo Deo Scabfconiiem.is Piophctis ki, v.J.+.iJ. /bimas Propheta: eius de Idumaeorum excidio va. riciniunhAbd.t.i. Ab poN,IuiiexIfraeIis,Iudic.ii.tj. eiusmors,v.i$. Ab e l, VideH.sBEi. /bei, aliis An e l-si a r M,vel Ab e la (id cAJtifhis, quodnomé fortaßisab illa clade accepi vjua afflicti iuntAmmonitt,Iudic.n.;?.) vibsNcrhthadi i loab obfidetur, i.Sam.ao.it. liberatur mulieris pra dentis conlilio, v.ii, a copiis Bcn-adad feritu.-.i.Re »um is-ao. z.Páral.16.4. vallatur a Thcglath-Phu faiar, i.Rcg.is.as>.
