Fejedelmi oktatáspolitika és az erdélyi középfokú oktatás = Princely Education Policy and Secondary Education in Transylvania

The study presents the educational concepts followed by the rulers of the Principality of Transylvania, their changes and their impact on the school network and society. The Principality of Transylvania, with its multiconfessional and multiethnic characteristics, followed a very specific educational history path, as it established its schools in four officially accepted denominations. The princes had to support all the schools, regardless of denomination, in accordance with the existing political and religious consensus. However, by a variety of means, they managed to ensure that their own denominational viewpoint prevailed. Thus, during the sixteenth century, they first supported the schools of the burgeoning Reformation, with John Sigismund supporting the Unitarians and Stephen Báthory, as a catholic, supporting the Jesuit order. In the seventeenth century, the reformed rulers of Transylvania worked to establish a system of education linked to the European protestant educational system