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Abstract: In the introduction, the study presents the educational situation formed under the effect of the Reformation period, the location and proportion of schools founded in the second part of the 16th century and in the 17th century. Next comes the description of a higher intellectual level necessity, which in times of independent Transylvanian principality, under the domination of Gábor Bethlen led to the foundation of a higher education, respectively named Collegium Academicum. The study relates about the economic and intellectual procedures and steps to follow in the foundation of the institution, closer about the teaching staff. This was the moment of Martin Opitz, Iohannes Alsted, Philippus Piscator and Johannes Bisterfeld’s arrival to Transylvania. Due to these teachers from abroad, the school in Gyulafehérvár becomes a well-known and attended one.As it aims for the reader to know about the history of teaching Hebrew lan-guage in Transylvania, the study details the structure of some of the taught disci-plines, among which that of the Hebrew grammar written in Latin by Alsted in 1635, too: Rudimenta Hebraicae et Chaldicae. Following the grammar presenta-tion, the study offers an analysis of Alsted’s pedagogical methods, aim and know-how of teaching foreign languages. In the history of Transylvanian schools, János Apáczai Csere takes over and continues the application of the Hebrew language teaching pedagogy, developing it at university level. The study relates about Apáczai’s life and scientific carrier. The detailed analysis of the inaugural speech from Gyulafehérvár, De Studio Sa-pientiae, of the manual entitled Magyar logikácska published in 1654, of the manual entitled Magyar Enczyklopedia, of the inaugural speech from Cluj in 1656, of the publication named De summa scholarum necessitate have as pedagogic aim the presentation and description of the importance of the Hebrew language at university level, according to Apáczai. His pedagogy and teaching politics would constitute the base for the University founded in the second part of the 19th century in Kolozsvár.
Keywords: Reformation, school, education, academy, teaching staff, analytic pro-gram, Hebrew language teaching, Hebrew grammar, university foundation
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