The re-establishment of the Jesuit school in Cluj in 1615

Abstract

Abstract: The Jesuits opened in 1580 their first school in Cluj and in May 1581 they received from Stephen Báthory the famous diploma in which he asserted his support for this institution and expressed a desire for it to become a university. In 1603 the Jesuits were banished from Transylvania and their return was possible only after the assassination of the unstable prince Gabriel Báthory (1613). An important role in their return to Cluj and also in the re-establishment of the Jesuit school here was played by Stephen Színi, one of the most active Hungarian Jesuits of the time. He managed to recover the village of Cluj-Mănăștur and after creating the necessary material base, the Jesuit school was reopened here in 1618. In the middle of the 17th century, 130-140 students attended this school.