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promoting the value. The dialogue between generations and the promotion of the mutual
respect, the reconstruction of human sense and the promotion of institutional vocation
represent the necessary background to rebuild the past in its real size, so to better
understand the present and to turn it toward the good of the future” 11 .
An important example of necessary historical return is the honest reconsideration of the
complex personality and her remarkable role in the history of Zsuzsanna Lorantffy- in the
Transylvanian culture. Zsuzsanna Lorantffy (1616-1660) was the Princess of
Transylvania during 1630 and mistress of Fagaras 1634-1660. A generous spirit, admirer
of the great teacher I. Amos Comenius, she made a real development program for the
schools throughout the Transylvania County. She helped poor children to learn,
encouraged the education of girls, supported education in the mother tongue, built schools
and churches, equipped religious institutions and hospitals. Among her greatest
achievements are worth mentioned the Romanian school founded in Fagaras 1657.
The contradictory assessments of leading historians on Lorantffy Zsuzsanna’s
contribution to the establishment of the first institutionalized Romanian schools in
Fagaras are incomprehensible.
Thus, Nicolae Albu, a famous historian of Romanian education shows that school
founded in Fagaras in 1657, "brought a new spirit: a systematic organization, a detailed
plan, meeting all requirements and operating condiŃions: maintenance of the building, the
teaching staff, pupils and their duties, rights and inspections, all established by a
regulation whose content deserves to be known, not only because it presents documentary
importance, but also as it is a hint of cultural-pedagogical level "for those times 12 .
And on page 76 quoting Dr. I. Ratiu 13 he concludes, 'Appreciating the light and the
instruction which could spread within the walls of the school in Fagaras we can easily
recognize that two almost three centuries ago, it was the leading fireplace of culture in
Transylvania”.
The same author, in the same work, considers the founding of a Romanian schools in
Fagaras ”an ingenious trap to convert Romaniansfrom Olt County to Calvinism
outstretched by Lorantffi Susana, the widow of George Rakoczi I" 14 .
And on page 76 quoting Nicolae Iorga he shows that „ not a generous altruism or a
selfless love made Szuszana Lorantffi prompted Ioan Kemeny, senior captain of Fagaras,
to found here a Romanian school 15 , but an old passion, the desire to spread the Calvinism
among Romanians " 16 .
The work of the Wise Princess implies a new approach. An attempt of this kind, we
have made in the present paper.
11
www.centrul-cultural pitesti.ro / index.php? Mihaela Stănciulescu.
12
Nicolae Albu, History of Romanian Education in Transilvania until 1800 (Istoria ÎnvăŃământului
românesc din Transilvania până la 1800, Tipografia ,,Lumina” Miron Roşu –Blaj,1944 ,p.68.
13
Dr. I.RaŃiu in ,,Foaia Şcolastică”, (Blaj) An .XIII, Nr.11.
14
Nicolae Albu, o.c. p.63.
15
N. Iorga in ,,Revista Istorică ”, 1923, octombrie.
16
Ion Matei, Form a heft of a theacher (Din carnetul unui dascăl), Sibiu, 1910, p. 95.