Die Anfänge der ungarischen Staatswissenschaft. Politikwissenschaftliche Disputationen von ungarnstämmigen Studenten an deutschen Universitäten im 17. Jahrhundert
The Beginnings of Hungarian Political Science. Political Disputations of Hungarian-born Students at German Universities in the 17th Century

Summary/Abstract: Over the past fifteen years, Hungarian literary historians have outlined an idea of an interdisciplinary research program that aimed at exploring the early modern history of Hungarian political thinking. One of the most important elements of the proposed work has been to ensure the availability of the texts to be analysed (or analysable) for the purposes of research. The texts to be considered for research purposes are coming from highly various genres. One of the less well-known and less exploited types of texts to be analysed are pamphlets (disputations) that are related to the politics of the period and that educated the dozens of Hungarian peregrinating students who were raised in the 17th century. Contemporary students could gain an insight through these texts and disputes into one of the most popular disciplines of the era, the fundamentals of political science.The study and its annex attempt to identify all the disputations that were protected by students from Hungary or Transylvania at a university of Germany and the Netherlands in the 17th century. It gives an overview of the role of the disputes in the education and their place in contemporary political science. It compares the features available from the database of 3000 disputes protected at German universities with the similar data from its own collection.In these so far underrated works, we should recognize the first traces of theoretical foundation of the Hungarian political thinking.

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