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    STUDIA HISTORIA - Issue no. 2 / 2004  
         
  Article:   ISTVÁN SZÉCHENYI AND THE ROMANIANS OF TRANSYLVANIA.

Authors:  FLORIN ŞTEFAN. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  István Széchenyi and the Romanians of Transylvania. The representatives of the Romanian intelligentsia up to 1848 also got in touch with the liberal doctrine through the Hungarian agency. The character who played a decisive part in the troubled history of first half of the 19th century Hungary, count István Széchenyi, formulated a message that went beyond the Pannonic Plain. Count István Széchenyi offered the Transylvanian Romanians a formula for the modernization of the society that could be ranged within the framework of Romanticism. Due to his writings, the initiatives of adjusting to the economic structures of capitalist types took shape in Transylvania. Széchenyi’s formula according to which "nations lives through language" turned into the main aim of Romanian militant activities until the Great Union. Among the representatives of Hungarian liberalism in the 19th century, István Széchenyi enjoyed the greatest popularity among Transylvanian Romanians. The perspective on his work was decisively conditioned by the controversies between Romanians and Hungarians concerning the national question.  
         
     
         
         
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