Rozgonyi Sutor (Varga) János

Abstract

It was mainly the clerical-magistral order that — as there was no secular intelligentsia — was the base of official machinery in seventeenth century Transylvania. The author considers it very important to study by means of personal records the thoughts, aims and ambitions of these ecclesiastics and schoolmasters who communicated with wider social strata. Rozgonyi Sutor proves to be one of their representatives. His life is examined here thoroughly on the evidence of his autobiography Descriptio annualis, keeping in view its keyquestion, Sutor's peregrination to the Netherland academies.