Being a member of the Szeged society of jurists is a feeling that determines our existence.
We are proud of our institutional past, the strength of our community, the knowledge and experience, which we have acquired here. The faculty decided to create a series of volumes about professors who were pivotal in the development of the law as an academic subject. The reader is holding in their hands the first memorial volume commemorating our professors who practiced before 1945, celebrating the 100[th] anniversary of the first academic year in Szeged in 1921.
The city of Szeged, since 1790, desired to have its own higher education institution, which eventually came to fruition due to the tumultuous history of the times. The University of Kolozsvár was not relocated taking into consideration the wishes of the individuals, but in line with public interest. The location that was the most suitable at a country level was Szeged.
The volume has a purpose: to pay tribute to our professors by showing the past of our Faculty. This is done by looking at the lives of the professors which span seven decades of university history which highlights the roots of our thinking. In addition to the academic work of our professors and the bibliographic data of the most important academic works, our volume also provides a short biographical overview along uniform editorial principles, which is unique both in its content and scope.
In addition to the academic work of the professors of the Faculty of Law of Kolozsvár/Szeged before 1945, we are proud of humanity, values, commitment to academia, homeland, and the community of our professors. Their example provides us with the motivation to strive for excellence. Our identity and our future are also rooted here, as "the ultimate goal is to awaken the sense of truth in ourselves, to cultivate it. To learn not to know the law, but to feel the truth, is to make our second argument what is inter virtalens summum bonum: that is, justice. The correct end goal of any study of law can only be to familiarise ourselves with the practice of truth. It is not the law, not the jurisprudence, that is the ornament of humanity. In fact, they can be just as much a curse as a blessing. The only ornament in this field is a just man who is enthusiastic about the idea of law." (Béni Grosschmid)
Former rector István Schneller - in the name of Bálint Kolosváry, who was still in Kolozsvár - handed over the new rectoral chain to Gáspár Menyhárt with these words: "do not forget about the traditions of the University of Kolozsvár." We will not forget the traditions of the Faculty of Law Kolozsvár/Szeged as well.
Happy reading. ■
Lábjegyzetek:
[1] The author is Dean.
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