Деятельность педагогов-выходцев из Венгрии в России (1703–1848)
The activities of educators from Hungary in Russia (1703-1848)

Summary/Abstract: This article outlines the carriers of four scholars coming from what is known as “historical Hungary”. The first out of the four is I. Zékány who was born in 1670 in Carpathian Ruthenia and studied in Prague and Vienna. In the first decades of the 1700s, Zékány became the tutor of the young princes of the Naryshkin family (the relatives of Peter I). Later on, Peter entrusted Zékány to teach the Tsar’s grandson, future Emperor Peter II (1727–1730). The second person is T. I. Janković (1741–1814), considered to be “the father of Russian public schools”. Janković studied in Sremski Karlovci, Bratislava (Preßburg/Pozsony) and Vienna and made his good professional reputation when he worked as the director of Serbian schools in Vojvodina and the chief of the school district of Timişoara (Temesvár). In 1782, upon the invitation of Сatherine II he arrived in Russia and subsequently played the major role in the reform of elementary education in that country. Janković also was the author of numerous handbooks and methodological instructions. In detail, the article discusses activity of M. Balugyánszky (1769–1847). This scholar is well known as the teacher of law of Tsar Nicolas I, as the first rector of the St. Petersburg University and as an editor of the famous collection of Russian laws (Polnoe Sobranie Zakonov). Finally, the article indicates the main stages of the carrier of Peter Lódy (1764–1829). In Russia, he was a professor of logic and a pioneer of woman education and published several influential works. The names of the four scholars and pedagogues mentioned above are almost completely absent from the Hungarian general studies on the history of culture and education. It would be desirable for these names to be given a proper place in the cultural history of both countries.

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