Dokumentumok a magyar állatorvosi oktatás történetéhez I. 1786—1816 - Az Állatorvostudományi Egyetem Központi Könyvtárának kiadványai 3. (Budapest, 1987)

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sorship of Sándor Tolnay does not cover an eventless and uninteresting period.

The cultural policy of the age and its changes are not intended to be analyzed here as well as the contemporary process of development in the University is not wanted to be reported on. The reader can find the necessary knowledge in the literature of higher education published earlier or recently. /Comp.: Györy Tibor: Az Orvostudományi Kar története 1770-1935. Budapest, 1936. 840 p., Kotlán Sándor: A magyar állatorvosképzés története 1787-1937. Budapest, 1941. 210 p., Az Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem története 1635-1985. (Ed.: Sinkovics, István) Budapest, 1985. 448 p., Kovács GyulazFehér György: Biographia. Elhunyt tanáraink és előadóink életrajza. 2. enlarged ed., Budapest, 1986. ÁTE, 227 p., 200 éves a magyar állatorvosi felsőoktatás. 1787-1987. (Ed.: Holló, Ferenc), Budapest, 1987. 463 p./

We would like to call the attention of those who are interested in the history of veterinary education to the fact that those documents really enlighten how difficult and crude the circumstances were at the very beginning of the institute's work 200 years ago. It is why we have to bow before the human greatness and knowledge of Sándor Tolnay who was able to create some thing great and internationally remarkable under these bad conditions .

Something worthy of attention can be offered also to those who are interested in public history or cultural history. Your attention may be drawn to the appreciative expertises of Professor Wolstein /Vienna/ in the year of foundation as well as to the interesting and characteristic papers about book acquisi tion and to the presence of language problem both in education and general /Translation of Tolnay's works to Latin and Slavonic, etc./ It is also remarkable to read the rescripts of the