STUDENTI ROMÂNI DIN COMITATUL BIHOR ÎN
UNIVERSITĂTILE DIN EUROPA (SECOLUL XIX – ÎNCEPUTUL
SECOLULUI XX)
ROMANIAN STUDENTS FROM THE COUNTY OF BIHOR IN
THE UNIVERSITIES OF EUROPE ( 19 CENTURY BEGINNING
OF THE 20 CENTURY)
Stelean – Ioan BOIA
Universitatea de Vest „Vasile Goldis” din Arad
Facultatea de StiinŃe Umaniste, Politice si Administrative
Str. Unirii, nr. 3
E-mail: steleanioanboia@yahoo.com
Abstract
Our scientific inquiry attempted to put forward the intellectual and cultural potential of the
geographic and historic space of the Bihor County from Western Romania in the 19
the beginning of the 20
th century and atth century. Based on the researches made both in Romanian and foreign
STUDII DE STIINłĂ SI CULTURĂ ANUL IV, NR. 1(12), MARTIE 2008
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archives, but also on the information provided by the historiography, we have succeeded to identify
640 Romanian students from the Bihor County that studied in the Western and Central European
universities, in the above mentioned period, especially between 1867 and 1918. Most of them
attended the courses of the universities (academ
(125), 91 of them getting the title of “doctor” in political and juridical sciences, medicine, and
letters and philosophy.
The Bihor County, with the help of these intellectuals that studied in the European
universities, integrated (like the other counties from Transylvania and Banat) in the complex
process of cultural and national renaissance at the end of the 19
the 20
Romanian society in the modern and contemporary era.
ies) from Oradea (304), Budapest (180), and Clujth century and at the beginning ofth. Many of these scholars influenced profoundly through their work and activity the
Key words
: elites, intellectuality, foundation, scholars, faculty, university
Cuvinte chieie:
elite, intelectualitate, fondare, savanti, facultate, universitate.