Transylvanian SchoolW
Transylvanian School

The Transylvanian School was a cultural movement which was founded after part of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Habsburg-ruled Transylvania accepted the leadership of the pope and became the Greek-Catholic Church. The links with Rome brought to the Romanian Transylvanians the ideas of the Age of Enlightenment. The Transylvanian School's major centres were in the cities of Balázsfalva, Nagyvárad, Lugos and Belényes.

Ion Budai-DeleanuW
Ion Budai-Deleanu

Ion Budai-Deleanu was a Romanian scholar, philologist, historian, and poet.

Petru MaiorW
Petru Maior

Petru Maior was a Romanian writer who is considered one of the most influential personalities of the Age of Enlightenment in Transylvania. Maior was a member of the Greek-Catholic clergy, a historian, philosopher, and linguist.

Samuil Micu-KleinW
Samuil Micu-Klein

Samuil Micu Klein was a Romanian Greek-Catholic theologian, historian, philologist and philosopher, a member of the Enlightenment-era movement of Transylvanian School.

Gheorghe ȘincaiW
Gheorghe Șincai

Gheorghe Șincai was an ethnic Romanian Transylvanian historian, philologist, translator, poet, and representative of the Enlightenment-influenced Transylvanian School.

Supplex Libellus ValachorumW
Supplex Libellus Valachorum

Supplex Libellus Valachorum Transsilvaniae is the name of two petitions sent by the leaders of the ethnic Romanians of Transylvania to the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, demanding equal political rights with the other ethnicities of Transylvania and a share of the Transylvanian Diet proportional to their population.

Samuil VulcanW
Samuil Vulcan

Samuil Vulcan was the Bishop of the Diocese of Oradea Mare of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church from 1806 to 1839.