HERMANN OBERTH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CLUJ. A NECESSARY CLARIFICATION
HERMANN OBERTH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CLUJ. A NECESSARY CLARIFICATION

Summary/Abstract: The present article identifies and analyses the information concerning Hermann Oberth as a student, preserved in the archives of the former Faculty of Sciences of the University of Cluj. It brings to light a series of previously unknown details regarding his enrolment in October 1922 and the formal completion of his academic record in April 1923. These documents show that the goal pursued by the future scientist was to obtain a graduation certificate and to take the capacity examination required to obtain a teaching diploma in secondary education. Thus, he followed the course of study prescribed by the Hungarian Law of Education of 1883, which was still accepted by the newly established Romanian university authorities in Cluj, in order to settle the status of the students enrolled before the war or immediately after its end. Taking this procedural detail into account ultimately leads to abandoning a notion that has circulated for several decades, namely that, in Cluj, Oberth completed a degree examination comparable to today’s system, based on the defence of a thesis.

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