Transilvania în opera polihistorului slovac Mathias Bel (1684-1749)
Transylvania in the works of slovakian polyhistor Mathias Bel (1684-1749)

Summary/Abstract: Slovakian Polyhistor Mathias Bel (1684-1749) had a lot of studies of historiography at his disposal, and they might be diversified through further research within the Romanian context, too, as it has already been proved by the research made in the past. He is the author of many works of history and geography, such as: Hungariae Antiquae et Novae Prodromus (1723), Adparatus ad Historiam Hungariae (1735-1746), Notitia Hungariae Novae Historico-Geographica (1735-1742). Different editions of his works may be found in various documentary libraries of Transylvania. The Slovakian and Magyar historiography dedicated to him a large number of works, articles and papers in the last centuries and previous decades. There will be 425 years since Mathias Bel’s birth and 260 years after his death in 2009. This is the reason why he deserves documentary attention within the context of the Romanian and Transylvanian historiography, too, on the line of several cross-cultural and cross-political interferences registered between the Transylvanian Romanians and Slovakians during the Age of Enlightenment and Pre-Enlightenment, but partially studied.

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