Calvinist Grammar School (Old Building)
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Calvinist Grammar School (Old Building)
Colegiul Reformat
Historical Hungarian county:
Maros-Torda
GPS coordinates:
46.5441510207, 24.5637626342
History
At the Hungarian country assembly held in Kolozsvár in 1556, the establishment of several new Reformed schools was discussed. The first known teacher of the school was Tordai Ádám, a graduate of the University of Wittenberg (1569). In February of the following year, in Gyulafehérvár, Queen Isabella of Hungary designated the former monastery of the Franciscan Order as the site of the institution, which was named Schola Particula. In 1601-1602, General Basta's imperial troops sacked the Castle Church, and the school was moved to the site where the Lyceum still stands today.
The students of the college of Sárospatak, expelled in 1671, were taken in by the college of Gyulafehérvár. They were expelled from there in 1716 by the Austrian military on the grounds of the defence of the local fortress. In 1718, the Schola Particula in Marosvásárhely took in the institution and its students, which elevated it to the rank of a college, the third in Transylvania, along with the ones in Nagyenyed and Kolozsvár. Its first permanent building was erected in the 1760s with the permission of Governor Hadik András. Between 1777 and 1779, with the help of the curator Teleki József, a new building was constructed to house the library and auditorium. Between 1801 and 1804, the north wing was added, which is still standing (although not in its original form), according to the plans of Ugrai László.
In 1794, law is introduced in the upper classes, followed three years later by natural history. On 27 September 1802, the college took possession of the first printing press in Marosvásárhely.
In May 1804, Bolyai Farkas delivered his inaugural address, marking the beginning of the institute's boom. Bolyai Farkas advocated the modernisation of education. His son, the famous mathematician Bolyai János, also studied here. Within the walls of the institute he discovered the foundations of his theory of relativity.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the old wing of the building was demolished and replaced by the present Art Nouveau building. The new building was constructed between 1908 and 1909 to the design of Baumgartner Sándor. It was confiscated by the Romanians after the Romanian occupation and became a state school.
In 1957, on the 400th anniversary of the institution's foundation, it took the name of Bolyai Farkas. The year 1960 was a sad year in the life of the secondary school, because it was converted into a mixed-language institution by the nationalist Romanian authorities. The idea of making the school fully Hungarian again had been mooted as early as 1990, one of the triggers of the ethnic riots known as the Black March. From the 2005-2006 school year onwards, the Romanian classes were discontinued and the school became a fully Hungarian school again.
In the summer of 2007, the Reformed College's coat of arms (a white angel on a blue background) was ceremoniously reinstated on the school's facade at the World Alumni Meeting.
At present, the building owned by the Reformed Diocese of Transylvania is home to two schools, the Bolyai Farkas Lyceum and the Reformed College.
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