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
18 THE PROTESTANT SCHOOL IN THE 16TH CENTURY these decades. The connection established with the crypto-Calvinist circle from the Szepesség region underscores the significance of the role assumed in the intellectual life of Upper-Hungary. Among the teachers as well as the students, there were ones who were German or Slovakian from Upper-Hungary. It was indubitably the University of Wittenberg which stood at the axis of international relations in these years, but, towards the end of the century, it was the relationship with the University of Heidelberg and with the College of Strasburg which began to evolve in an ever-rapid manner. If examining the accomplishments of the teachers in the field of literature, it can generally be said that the curriculum was dominated by a humanism embedded in theology. The illustre gymnasium or illustris schola had its basis in the teaching of the foundations of introductory elementary knowledge and Latin grammar. Lectures were given about the certain required elements of linguistics, medicine and natural sciences, historiography, philology, law and evidently Reformed theology within the framework of existing domestic relations of the era. For those wishing to pursue studies in the last third of the 16th century, the school in Sárospatak provided knowledge and direction from elementary school throughout secondary to higher education within its unique college structure as fashioned on Hungarian Protestant ground. Protestant pastor in the 16th century. Teachers’attire at this time was similar except for the alb, which was the long white vestment used as a liturgical garment
