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A BIBLIOGRAPHY, LIST OF LECTURES, AND THE PERSON BEHIND THEM: THE LIFE OF THE LEGAL SCHOLAR, DR. SÁNDOR KOVÁCS ON THE BASIS OF THE MEMOIRES OF HIS DAUGHTER, ILONA
108-130Views:141The present article intends to illuminate the colorful life of dr. Sándor Kovács, who was the first professor of the Department of the Roman Law founded in 1875 at Reformed College of Debrecen. The study focuses on the forty years’ service of Kovács pursued in the „Calvinist Rome”. Doing so, the paper scrutinizes the history and evolution of the law school in Debrecen before the arrival of dr. Kovács. Secondly, by using the manuscripts of one of his children, Ilona, the study depicts the personal and family life of the professor bedecked by the touching memories of storytelling, vineyards, and long walks in the Great Forest of Debrecen. Nevertheless, the paper takes into consideration that dr. Kovács as a high-esteemed professor of the roman law delivered lectures and publications of general interest. Creating a novelty in the research, the study collects and publishes the bibliography of dr. Kovács’s printed works together with his academic lectures in a detailed, chronological list.
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Ferenc Balogh, the Supervisor Professor of the College Choir (Kántus) between 1880-1898
90-105Views:178Ferenc Balogh, the internationally renowned professor of church history served as the supervisor of the Male Choir (Kántus) of the Reformed College of Debrecen for nearly two decades in a period of crucial changes. He devoted his agile activity into two directions. He supported the permanent employment of first long-term conductor of the choir, Sándor Mácsai, and he founded the historical researches of the choir, also giving a historical perspective
to its identity. He accumulated the necessary financial support for the teacher-conductor’s position through his beautifully composed ceremonial speeches for which his students admired him. These speeches
also served as the referential points of confidence for the young singers. This essay analyses his speeches and presents the actions that followed the rhetorical masterpieces. -
Szepsi Csombor Márton Nürnbergjének forrásai
127-135Views:162Contribution to the sources of the desciption Nürnberg by Márton Szepsi Csombor. The first travel book in Hungarian – Europica Varietas – was printed in 1620 in the town Kassa, which at that time „Cassovia Superioris Hungariae civitas primaria” was. It is well-known, that Márton Szepsi Csombor read before his travel numbersone geographical and historical books, but he hasn’t mentioned his reading list. It is most probably, that Szepsi Csombor (1595–1622) knew well the descriptions from Conrad Celtis and
Johannes Cochlaeus (Brevis Germaniae descriptio, 1512), too. From the sights of Nürnberg he has admired the fine but fortifide castle on the hill, the beautiful stone buildings, the magnificent hospitals, the famous churchyard St. Johannis, the old churches, the market-place, the fine fountain „Schöner Brunnen, and many – but not very expensive – inns. Szepsi Csombor belived, that „Norimberga* is a famous town of repute among all nations.” Finally the Author has mentioned the Altorfiana university and the name of
Dr. Remus, who „has* rendred great service to the Hungarian youth and still does.” The critical edition of the complete works of Márton Szepsi Csombor was edited by Sándor Iván Kovács and Péter Kulcsár in Budapest, 1968. The Europica Varietas translated from the Hungarian and with an Introduction by Bernard Adams [Corvina, Budapest 2014] *The quotations were taken over from the Translation of Bernard Adams.
