Discurs oficial şi discurs oral privind înfţiinţarea Universităţii "Babeş-Bolyai" la 1959
Official and Oral Speech Regarding "Babeş-Bolyai" University Setting Up in 1959

Summary/Abstract: After dr. Petru Groza's pro-communist government was installed on 6th March 1945, Romanian communists, following the intemational proletarian ideology, agreed with "'Babeş-Bolyai" University setting up in Cluj; it was an institution where the Hungarian minority in Transylvania was to study. This university had functioned without interruption till 1959, when the communist authorities in Bucharest proposed its dissolution, fearing certain anticommunist movements; this decision came as a response to the 1956's revolution in Hungary whose echo was also felt among the Hungarian intellectuals in Cluj. Romanian communism's nationalization allowed the young party leader Nicolae Ceauşescu to distinguish himself; his actions lead to the Hungarian University's assimilation within the Romanian University "Victor Babeş". In 1959's summer, Camil Mureşan, Dumitru Salade, and Aurel Negucioiu that were young professors at that time, witnessed the two universities' joinder. The new joint university, named "Babeş-Bolyai", raised lot of problems that concerned especially the organizing aspects and encountered some negative reactions coming from certain Hungarian professors. By using oral testimonies, this study attempts to clarify some of the "mysterious" aspects of this joinder, which are perceptible in the official written speech of the leaders and the communist press.

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