Sportélet a reformkori Kolozsváron
Sports Life in Cluj/Kolozsvár in the Hungarian Age of Reform

Summary/Abstract: During the age of reform, the traditions of Hungarian sports have led a group of young aristocrats to lay down the foundations of modern sports life in Cluj/Kolozsvár. Gaetano Biasini, born near Milan, has opened his fencing school in the Redut Palace in 1818. His establishment was visited by Count Ádám Kendeffy, one of the leading personalities of the Transylvanian reform movement, Baron Lajos Jósika, Count Ferenc Béldy, and often, even by Miklós Wesselényi. The ground rules of the fencing school have been worked out by Farkas Sándor Bölöni, who – together with a significant part of the city’s aristocracy – also supported the sports institution, which has become public from the middle of the century, with generous monetary donations.

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