Education paper by Dallman, Kristóf
International Relations at the Pius Jesuit Gymnasium of Pécs (Accepted)
Type of Abstract (select):Abstract (max. 250 words):
The Society of Jesus is long known as one of the best network builders of the Roman Catholic Church. The Ignatian brothers are founded an international educational system all around the world. After the order's supression in 1773, the Hungarian Jesuit schools were forced for a hiatus until the second half of the nineteenth century. The Pius Catholic Gymnasium (1912–1948) – founded by Count Gyula Zichy, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pécs – was one of the most developed secodary schools in Hungary, at the first half of the twentieth century. The bishop entrusted the Jesuits with the operation of the school after the incorporation of the Independent Hungarian Province of the Society of Jesus. The school’s fist headmaster was P. Gábor Jablonkay SJ – a Jesuit monk moved from the Jesuit Gymnasium of Kalocsa – set the foundations of the school’s pedagogical program, called the Péter Pázmány Study Group to life at 1916, as a supplement beside the regular educational program and of course tended the international relations with the Office of the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, and the other institutes of the Society. The paper presentation has two goals: firstly, it is to show the archival sources related to the onetime Gymnasium’s international relations, and secondly to represent the Hungarian Jesuits networking process at the early twentieth century.
Brief Professional Bio (max. 100 words):
Kristóf Dallman is in his first year as a PhD student at the University of Pécs. He is graduated as a teacher of history and pedagogy at the Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Budapest at 2019. His research topic is the Hungarian Jesuit educational history of the XIX-XX. centuries.