Graduates of Jesuit Schools and their Career Opportunities in the Hungarian Capital during the 17th Century Cover Image

A jezsuita iskolákban végzett diákok és karrierlehetőségeik a Magyar Királyság 17. századi fővárosában
Graduates of Jesuit Schools and their Career Opportunities in the Hungarian Capital during the 17th Century

Author(s): Frederik Federmayer
Subject(s): 17th Century
Published by: Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Történettudományi Intézet
Keywords: capital of Hungarian Kingdom; graduates of Jesuit schools career

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the first graduates of Jesuit grammar schools and in particular of the University of Trnava, who began to settle in the Hungarian capital, Pressburg, after 1635. The author identifies eight types of career possibilities, which he describes in detail in separate subchapters, as ways of employment in the following areas: 1. royal offices; 2. the offices of the highest state dignitaries and judges; 3. the administration of the royal courts; 4. the chapter of Pressburg as a place of authentication (locus credibilis); 5. in the service of the Catholic Church in Pressburg; 6. in the service of the Pálffy Lord Lieutenants and in the administration of the county of Pressburg; 7. in the service of the city of Pressburg and in its administrative offices; 8.the liberal professions (lawyers or doctors, for instance). The paper explores each of these career options through several examples of Pressburg men of education – graduates of Jesuit schools.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 215-236
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Hungarian