Draskóczy István - Varga Júlia - Zsidi Vilmos (szerk.): Universitas - Historia. tanulmányok a 70 éves Szögi László tiszteletére - Magyar Levéltárosok Egyesülete kiadványai 15. (Budapest, 2018)

Oktatástörténet - 2. 19-20. század - Sigmirean, Cornel: Katolikus hálózat - Erdélyi román diákok az európai egyetemeken

Cornel Sigmirean: The Catholic Network - Romanian Students

from Transylvania at European Universities

and Bishop of Pécs, studied in Bologna between 1491 and 15003. Another noble of Romanian origin, Gheorghe Paclizaru, studied liberal arts at the University of Cracow in 1494. Based on the same ethnic criterion, we can also remark names like Gheorghe Bona Sibianul, Nicolaus Olahus’ grandson, who studied in Padua between 1552 and 1559. Other two grandsons of the great humanist Olahus, Sebastian Liszt and Nicolaus Wolf, studied in Vienna in 1555.

The list of the Romanians from Transylvania, who studied during the Middle Age at Central and Western European universities also includes Jayzi Jacobus Valachus (in 1592), according to the name appearing in the register, Ladislaus Puskarius (1596—1597), Talian Paulus Valachus (1602), Gabriel Ivaly Valachus (1640—1642)4 - at the University of Graz; Stephanus Georgius Buitul (1619), Gabriel Ivuly Valachus (1640—1642) and Franciscus Patachi (1688)5 — at Vienna; Georgius Buitul in 16196 at Rome; Mihai Halici (“Valachus Poeta”) at the University of Basel (1674) and the University of Leiden (1679)7, and Matei Talabä (1696) at the University of Frankfurt am Oder8.

Certainly, until 1700, few Romanians studied at European universities, especially in relation to what the “academic peregrination” phenomenon represented in the case of the Germans and Hungarians. Between 1184 and 1520, around 2494 young people from Transylvania studied at European universities9, and between 1521 and 1700, a number of 1854 Transylvanians are registered10. Probably, among the 5,348 young people from Transylvania, who studied during the Middle Age at Western universities, some other Romanians might have studied there, besides those mentioned above, but the ascertainment of the students’ ethnic identity for the period prior to the 19th century represents an extremely difficult task. The family name is not always sufficiently eloquent to determine the ethnic identity. Consequently, any attempt of drawing an exhaustive list with the Romanians who studied in the Middle Age at European universities up to 1700 is extremely difficult to achieve, the historian having to assume possible errors from the very beginning. Nevertheless a fact is certain, namely that the number of Romanians who studied at European universities until the modern epoch was

3 loan Drägan: Nobilimea romäneascä din Transilvania 1440-1514. Bucureffi 2004. 360.

4 S^ögi L.: Studenp románi din Transilvania op. cit. 144.

5 Ibidem 75.

6 Ibidem 178.

7 S^abó Miklós — Tónk Sándor: Erdélyiek egyetemjárása a korai újkorban 1521—1700. Szeged 1992. 198.

8 Ibidem 175.

9 Tónk Sándor: Erdélyiek egyetemjárása a középkorban. Bucurejti 1979.

10 S\abóM. — Tónk S.: Erdélyiek egyetemjárása op. cit.

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