Transylvanian School

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The Transylvanian School (Romanian: Școala Ardeleană) was a cultural and political movement which started after part of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Habsburg-ruled Transylvania accepted the leadership of the pope and became the Greek-Catholic Church (c. 1700). The links with Rome brought to the Romanian Transylvanians the ideas of the Age of Enlightenment. It was the main political forum for Romanians in the Habsburg Empire and the main representative of Enlightenment in the history of Romania. Its main activity took place between 1785 and 1815.^[1]

The leaders of the movement, also known as "coryphaei", were: Ion Budai-Deleanu, Samuil Micu-Klein, Petru Maior, and Gheorghe Șincai. Often cited along them are predecessors, mainly Inocențiu Micu-Klein, and numerous political personalities or scholars influenced by it, notably Gheorghe Lazăr, Aaron Florian, Timotei Cipariu, and Alexandru Papiu Ilarian. Other members were Ioan Piuariu-Molnar, Radu Tempea, Paul Iorgovici, Petru Pavel Aron, Gherontie Cotore, Atanasie Rednic, Silvestru Caliani, Leonte Mosconas, Grigore Maior, Ştefan Crişan-Körösi, Vasile Coloşi, Ioan Corneli, Ioan and Alexandru Teodorovici, Gheorghe Constantin Roja, Mihail G. Boiagi, Ioan Alexi, Constantin Diaconovici Loga, Dimitrie Țichindeal, Damaschin Bojincă, Moise Fulea, Vasile Gergely, and Vasile Pop.^[2] The Transylvanian School's major centres were in the cities of Blaj (Balázsfalva), Oradea (Nagyvárad), Lugoj (Lugos) and Beiuș (Belényes).

The School had a moderate wing, closer to German Enlightenment and Josephinism, represented by Samuil Micu-Klein and Petru Maior, and a radical wing inspired by French Enlightenment and French Revolution ideals, led by Ion Budai-Deleanu.