Anna Tüskés PhD, Institute for Literary Studies of Research Center for the Humanities of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
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The University of Vienna (Universität Wien), which was founded in 1365, played an important role in the instruction of the intelligentsia of Croatia. Fortunately, the majority of the documents of the University of Vienna has survived. For my research, the main register and the registers of the Faculty of Humanities, the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Theology, the Medical Faculty and the register of the Hungarian nation have been the most important, as they contain exact data regarding the students’ matriculation, exams passed and degrees obtained. I restricted my research to the years between 1385, the first student from Croatia at the University of Vienna, and 1526, the year of the battle of Mohács. Of the 400 students supposedly originating from Croatia, in the cases of nearly 20 the place of origin could not be established properly. Often, only the remarks “Croatus” or “de Sclauonia” are found next to the names. The University of Vienna played a central role in the education of the Croatian ecclesiastic and secular intelligentsia. Students from Croatia were soon to matriculate in Vienna: for example, Martinus Stephani de Capransa studied in Vienna already in 1385. From this year, peregrination from Croatia to Vienna was continuous. The data shows that the number of students from Croatia was not considerable before the second decade of the 15th century. It is from this time that a continuous and significant peregrination to Vienna existed which ceased with the battle of Mohács in 1526.