The effect of the universities of the Low Countries on the intellectual history of Hungary in the early modern times
The effect of the universities of the Low Countries on the intellectual history of Hungary in the early modern times

Summary/Abstract: In the previous research, two periods were distinguished in the history of the intellectual connections between the Low Countries and Hungary in the early modern age. The first period, terminating at the beginning of the 17th century, was characterized with the impact of Renaissance Humanism, while in the second one, lasting from the 1620s to the end of the century, Cartesian philosophy and Puritan theology were mentioned among the effects reaching Hungary. This paper deals with the traces of the intellectual and literary history of Hungary and Transylvania that can be connected to the extensive philological scholarship practiced at the universities of the Netherlands. The Hungarian crowd of students invading the university of Leiden from the end of the 1610s – the university which was in the contemporary frontline of philological reflection and was also exceptional in the field of philological practice – faced the consequences of philological conceptions, especially of those permeated from Latin Humanism into the field of theology either gaining validity there or provoking intense discussion. This way, the effect of the Dutch Humanism did not decrease in this second period but – on the contrary – it just reached the zenith of its expansion and significance, being synthesized in a broader education program.

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