On November 10, in the hall of the Budapest University Catholic High School and College, the volume commemorating the work of the Székely scholar Benedek Jancsó as a historian of language and literature will be presented.
As a pedagogue, he was a militant advocate and organizer of free Hungarian-language education outside the framework of state and church schools, adult education at folk academies and folk colleges, as well as popular education lectures. He is known as the founding editor of such pedagogic, educational theory and educational policy journals as the Középiskolai Szemle (1882–1887, as well as the Egyetemes Pözoktatásügyi Szemle. In 1888, he edited the Tanulók Olvasó Tára in Budapest together with Gábor Boros.
Since the 1890s, as a historian, he has been preoccupied with issues of nationality in the Carpathian Basin and minority politics in Hungary. In particular, he trained himself as an expert in the field of population history and political-ideological movements of the Hungarian (Transylvanian) Romanian minority (e.g. Dáro-Romanian theory, Romanian irredentism, the idea of Greater Romania), and most of his journalism was published in Budapesti Hírlap or Magyar Szemle, as well as in independent volumes. covered this subject area. In these, he generally warned about the possible consequences of the aspirations of Transylvanian Romanians, and through filtered conclusions about the dangers associated with the rise of all nationalities. In the 1890s, he participated in the editorial work of the publication Arad county and the monograph of the free royal city of Arad, whose ethnographic chapters he wrote himself.
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