School Towns or Cultural Regional Center? The Dilemmas of the Spatial Division of Education During the Reform Age in the Light of the Collective Biographical Characteristics of Protestant Academics Cover Image

Iskolaközpontok vagy kultúrrégió-centrumok? A reformkori iskolázás térbeli tagolódásának dilemmái a protestáns akadémikusok kollektív biográfiai jellemzőinek tükrében
School Towns or Cultural Regional Center? The Dilemmas of the Spatial Division of Education During the Reform Age in the Light of the Collective Biographical Characteristics of Protestant Academics

Author(s): János Ugrai
Subject(s): History of Education
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Hungarian cultural elite; Academy; spatial divisions; 19. century;

Summary/Abstract: The study examines the geographical origin of Protestant members of the Academia in the Hungarian Reform Era with the help of collective biography. First, it assigns stages in one’s studies and course of adult life to cultural regions. Then it determins the ratio between these cultural regions, the power of their academic representation, as well as the persons’ movement among cultural regions, and the scale and intensity of their mobility. The investigation is enabled by the fact that the Academia in the Reform Era operated mechanisms balancing along various lines of intersection, and thus strove for a certain representativeness in both denominational and geographical terms. Investigating the mobility of academicians in the Reformed Era may provide new arguments for the independence (and closedness) of Debrecen and Transylvania, as well as convincing numbers substantiating the increasingly growing pull of Pest.

  • Issue Year: 32/2023
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 193-206
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Hungarian