Preliminarii didactice la Sibiu în secolul XIX: reflecţii pe marginea unui manuscris de istorie ecleziastică
Teaching Preliminaries at Sibiu in the XIXth Century: Reflections Considering a Manuscript of Ecclesiastical History

Summary/Abstract: The present study has proposed to sketch the genesis of a manuscript of the XIXth century, that has been used by the Transylvanian educational system; it has been kept fragmentary, because the first and the last pages are missing and there are 38 doublesided sheets. It has been written with Cyrillic script by one of the students of the Andreian Theological Institute, Aron Teodor from Simeria, and it was preserved until today in a family collection. From the perspective of ecclesiastical history, this text becomes an important part of the teaching speech file of Sibiu. Written by one of the students of the Andreian Theological Institute, not by a teacher, it has an obvious significance, but also unavoidable limits: on one hand, it is a sample of how a teacher speech has been perceived by students, in this case a correct and legible spelling; on the other hand, it is a fragmentary manuscript, which lacks the start and end sheets, which made recourse to other sources necessary to elucidate the intellectual context in which it was written. As Aron Teodor has graduated at Sibiu in the school year 1858-1859, it means that the genesis of this manuscript is in the second half of the first school year, so the year 1858. Considering the content, the manuscript contains the substance of church history course, taught at the time of Nicolae Popea. Comparing this with another manuscript of 1851-1852, we may conclude that, in fact, Nicolae Popea has used the notes of his late colleague, Grigore Pantazi. In the absence of a printed manual, we may notice the effective liaison between the educational responsibility assumed, between the schoolmaster speech and writing these lecture notes, that have been primarily used in the benefit of the students. This type of historical document - a manual of ecclesiastical history preserved in a manuscript version - is part of an important category of sources, with an unavoidable role both for the ecclesiastical historiography and for the history of ideas - as a text responsible for the formation of stereotypes and the internalization of some ideologies.

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