Reformed College of Kolozsvár
Liceul Teologic Reformat
Reformed College of Kolozsvár
Liceul Teologic Reformat
Original function:
school
university / college
Address:
Romá, Strada Mihail Kogălniceanu 16
Historical Hungarian county:
Kolozs
GPS coordinates:
46.7678517139, 23.5948367123
History
The first school of the Hungarian Protestants in Kolozsvár opened in 1545 in the monastery in the old town. Lutheran, then Calvinists, and finally Unitarians taught in the institute. The headmaster (rector) was Vizaknai Gergely.
In 1557 a school was established in the former convent of the Dominicans by the decision of the Diet of Torda and by the permission of Queen Isabella of Hungary. At the end of the century, this school ceased to exist as the town became Unitarian, and on 20 March 1609, Prince Báthory Gábor of Transylvania donated the ruined church of the old town to the Reformed (Calvinists), and the Reformed school was also established next to it.
The school was moved to its present location by order of Prince Bethlen Gábor of Transylvania: in 1622 the Reformed received the former Franciscan monastery together with the church on Farkas Street. Here the school building was commissioned by Prince Rákóczi György II of Transylvania and built between 1651 and 1653 according to the plans of the Venetian master Agostino Serena. The remains of this school building can still be seen today in the ruin garden next to the church. In 1733, the college was the first in Kolozsvár to establish a law department.
It was enlarged in the 1780s and completely destroyed in the great fire of 1798. Between 1799 and 1802, the new building, later called the "Old College", was completed under the direction of architect Leder József in late Baroque and neoclassical style.
The gymnasium was built in 1900, and the new three-storey building in Petőfi Street designed by Paulus Erika was also completed in 1902.
The college's printing press is based on the legacy of Szenczi Kertész Ábrahám. After the printer died in 1667 without heirs, his legacy was left to the Treasury of the Principality of Transylvania. On 12 October 1672, Prince Apafi Mihály I donated the printing house to the Reformed colleges of Nagyenyed and Kolozsvár, and in 1673 he also donated the prince's printing house of Gyulafehervár to the colleges. In the first half of the 17th century, the school already had half a thousand books in its library.
After the Romanian invasion and the Trianon Dictate, the school lost most of its property. In 1948, during the educational reform, the school was nationalised, the Hungarian-language Mechanical Engineering Vocational School and then the Electrical Engineering Secondary School were established in the Farkas Street school building, and the Hungarian Secondary Boy's School No. 2 was established in the Petőfi Street wing, built in 1902. In 1956, the old building was converted into a Romanian-language school, and the new building was named after Ady Endre. In the same year the two institutions were merged under the name of Ady-Șincai Lyceum. The Hungarian section of the lyceum was closed in 1990, and from 1991 onwards the institution was named after Șincai.
In 1990 the Reformed College was reopened. The school recovered the old school building on 20 December 2002. In September 2005, the school started its first science class. In June 2007, it was awarded the Hungarian Heritage Prize.
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