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Gál Kelemen, a szerkesztő
Kelemen Gál, the Editor

Author(s): György Gaal
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature
Published by: Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület
Keywords: Kelemen Gál; Kolozsvár; Unitarian College; yearbooks; review; Keresztény Magvető

Summary/Abstract: Kelemen Gál (1869–1945) graduated the Unitarian College form Kolozsvár/Cluj, then he studied at the universities from Kolozsvár and Graz, he got specialized in German and Latin. He took his doctor’s degree in Philosophy. He was a teacher of the most important Unitarian high-school from 1891 up to 1931, in the period 1900–1925 he was the head of the Unitarian College. Gál wrote studies in philosophy, philology, pedagogy, school and church history. It is important his activity as an editor. Being the head of the College, he was obliged to complete the year-books of the school. They contained all the important data referring to teachers, students, administration, as well an introductory study. These volumes were of 200-300 pages. Beginning with 1911 he became one of the editors of the oldest Unitarian review, “Keresztény Magvető” (Christian Sawyer). Together with theology professor Lőrinc Gálfi they edited yearly 6 volumes of this theological-pedagogical-cultural review up to the end of 1918. Besides these, in 1929–1930 he edited a periodical with the title Kisebbségi Iskolaügy (Minority School-Affairs) which aimed to help the church-officials, teachers and school-directors to get informed about the Romanian laws and administrative measures concerning schools.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: III
  • Page Range: 141-149
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Hungarian