Egyháztörténeti Szemle 15. (2014)
2014 / 1. szám - SUMMARIES IN ENGLISH - Busku Anita Andrea: Versions of József Lonovics’s Memorial Speech on György Majláth - Kónya Péter: Evangelical schools of ‘Sáros’ county in the 16-19th centuries
Summaries in English 159 Versions of József Lonovics’s Memorial Speech on György Majláth Busku, Anita Andrea József Lonovics (1793-1867) was a famous ecclesiastical person and bishop of the 19th century Hungary. He taught a memorial speech in 1863 after the death of György Majláth (1786-1861). Majláth played important play as politician in the Hungarian “ancien regime”, before 1848. Majláth and Lonovics were the members of the conservative political group before the 1848 revolution. They took part in the end of 1848 when the revolution Hungarian government sent a committee to Windisch-Grätz, the commander of the Habsburg army fighting against Hungary. Lonovics told the whole life of Majláth with the main political stations used a lot of poetical instruments. The paper contains a comparative analysis between the manuscript and the printed version of the text of Lonovics’s memorial speech. The whole text is published on the web page of Egyháztörténeti Szemle (www.egyhtortszemle.hu). Evangelical schools of‘Sáros’ county in the i6-i9th centuries Péter, Kónya Students born in Sáros county appeared in different universities of Europe in the 14th century. This fact produces evident for the existence of an adequate lower level school system in their homeland. In the cities a certain grade of qualification was essential to satisfy the need of administration and commerce. Furthermore, the industrial production of guilds required well educated leaders too. These demands caused the spectacular rise to a higher level of education in this region. In the early period of Reformation we could find good working high level schools in the cities of Bártfa, Eperjes, Kisszeben and Nagysáros. The school of Bártfa became especially influential under the leadership of Lénárd Stöckel. Even though he spent only a few months as school director in his birthplace, he published the school laws of Bártfa (Leges Scholae Bartphaensis) here in 1540. It was the first school regulation in Hungary inspired by the Reformation, based on the work ‘Ordo Visitatoris’ by Melanchton. The school laws of Stöckel were the official regulation in the next few decades not only in Bártfa but all over the country, at least in the schools which were following Luther’s doctrines. From the second half of the 16th century the humanist-oriented evangelical school of Eperjes became the most significant one in the territory of the county. This institution reached the college level in the middle of the 17th century. During the long period of counter-reformation all these evangelical schools were atrophying. Finally the 19th century brought the possibility of progress again, when the college of Eperjes reached the highest level above the others.
