Acta Papensia 2007 - A Pápai Református Gyűjtemények Közleményei 7. évfolyam (Pápa, 2007)
1-2. szám - Műhely - Szabadi István: A Debreceni Református Kollégium és a magyar művelődés
Műhely FELHASZNÁLT IRODALOM BALOGH Ferenc: A Debreceni Református Kollégium története adattári rendszerben, Debrecen, 1904. BARCZA József (szerk.): A Debreceni Református Kollégium története. Jubileumi kiadvány. Budapest, 1988. BARCSA János: A debreceni Kollégium és partikulái, Debrecen, 1905. GYŐRI L. János: Kősziklán épült vár. A Debreceni Református Kollégium története. Debrecen, 1993. NAGY Sándor: A debreceni református kollégium. Hajdúhadház, 1933. S. SZABÓ József: A debreceni református kollégium, Debrecen, 1928. ZSIGMOND Ferenc: A debreceni református Kollégium története 1538(?)—1938. Debrecen, 1937. Summary ISTVÁN SZABADI The Debrecen Reformed College and the Hungarian Culture Culture and education are terms that have been associated with Debrecen. During the decades of the 1500s, which were filled with struggles and defeats, Debrecen opted for eternal values. Through the College, Debrecen became the school of the country. The foundations of the Debrecen culture had been provided by monastic and parochial schools during the Middle Ages. Both the Franciscans and the Dominicans operated schools. After the spread of Reformation high quality education nurtured by a humanist spirit became dominating, with a system following the most modern European models. It was in the 17th Century, when the persecution of protes- tants took a start and then following the Turkish invasion, that Debrecen, being aware of its responsibility as a survivor, through taking over the role of the Sárospatak and Nagyvárad schools, gained more importance. As for the reforms in the 18th Century, György Maróthi's professorship is to be considered as a turning point. The importance of some of the professors during the Enlightenment outgrew the inner life of the College. They created standing values in the history of Hungarian reformed education. Compared not only to the Hungarian standard but to the universal one as well, some of them represent the Hungarian culture at the highest scholarly level. At the beginning of the 1800s, the idea of national education was already an important feature of the latin oriented schooling system. In the 19th Century the College divided into faculties and excellent teachers continued to impart their knowledge. The 20th Century College had three faculties, those of arts, law and theology. The Debrecen University was founded and operated for decades in the building of the College. When the education at the university began, 17 out of the 27 university professors had been former professors of the Debrecen College. Acta Papensia VII (2007) 1-2. 141
