Az Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület 1906–1943 közötti vándorgyűlései
The Travelling Conferences of the Transylvanian Museum Society between 1906 and 1943

Summary/Abstract: The travelling conferences of the Transylvanian Museum Society look back upon a past of more than one hundred years. The travelling conferences, medical congresses and scientific conferences organized within the confines of the Society contributed in a great measure to the raising of the standards pertaining to Hungarian scientific life in Transylvania. Scientific assemblies and special exhibitions, cultural programs and excursions favoured, at the same time, the members’ deeper familiarization with the historical past, natural endowment, as well as the social and medical problems of the region. The travelling conferences were widely regarded as joint celebrations of the Society and Transylvania, and furthered the conscience of community in the Hungarian people cast in a minority situation after the First World War. From 227 sectional talks held at the 18 travelling conferences, 125 (45%) were in the fields of the humanities and history, 75 (27%) in the area of the natural sciences, 45 (16%) were medical, and 32 (12%) concerned jurisprudence and social sciences. The distribution according to scientific sections of the 197 papers published in the annals is as follows: 90 – 58 – 26 – 23 (46 – 29 – 13 – 12%). Adding the scientific addresses held at the medical congresses and medical postgraduate courses to the sectional talks, we come up to a number of 454, of which 222 (48,9%) scientific addresses had a medical subject matter, and from the 337 addresses published in the annals, a number of 166 (49,2%) were also in the field of medical science. The travelling conferences secured a framework for the Hungarian intellectuals from Transylvania in making their contribution to the cultivation of science and the spreading of their scientific and professional results. Through the travelling conferences, the Transylvanian Museum Society broadened its scientific and scientific propagation activity, as these conferences offered an opportunity to harmonize scientific activities, popularize the Museum Society and propagate science in the widest possible circles. Complementing their function of assemblies for the popularization of science, the travelling conferences also became scientific forums and cultural manifestations with high standards.

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