From W Amesius to E Osterhaven : 3 centuries of Hungarian Reformed peregrinations to Holland with consideration for Sarospatak College

From the time of the Reformation, most of the leadership of the Reformed Church of Hungary was trained outside Hungary. In the sixteenth century, the Hungarian Reformed ministers studied in Wittenberg, where a "Coetus Ungarorum" was in existence until their expulsion in 1592. Matyas Devai Biro, Istvan Szegedi Kiss, Peter Meliusz Juhasz, Gaspar Karolyi, and hundreds of others were alumni of Wittenberg University and members of the Hungarian student organization "Coetus Ungarorum." After the Hungarian Reformed students were forced out of Wittenberg by the intolerant Lutheranism of the age, they... Mehr ...