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The Friends of Progress: Learned Societies and the Public Sphere in the Transylvanian Reform Era

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2009

Zsuzsanna Török
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Junior Research Fellow at Pasts Inc., Center for Historical Studies of the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

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This essay addresses the political role of nationally defined scholarship in multiethnic milieus. The focus is on Transylvania, one of the marginal provinces of the Habsburg Empire without stable, state-funded institutions of higher learning and research. The time frame is the Hungarian Vormärz, known as the Reform Era, which extended from the 1830s until the revolution of 1848 and was a pivotal moment in the maturation of the national perspective in scholarship and politics, challenging the traditional order of the composite monarchy. The liberal and national impetus of the period was manifest in the foundation of numerous regional voluntary associations intended to serve the public good, and further education, scholarship, and “national improvement.”

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