Ritoók, Zsigmond2021-06-282021-06-282020-08-10Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis, Vol. 44 (2008) , 175–1840418-453Xhttps://hdl.handle.net/2437/317354The present paper treats some factors which influenced the development of classical scholarship in Hungary in connection with both historical crossings: a) Leo Thun’s reform of public instruction, a bourgeois liberal reform pushed through by a conservative aristocrat, which was aimed at the Germanisation of Hungarian culture, but which effected the development of Hungarian scholarly life and Hungarian classical scholarship as a specialized branch of learning; b) the crossing of German and French tradition in the development of classical scholarship in Hungary.application/pdffolyóiratcikkOpen AccessActa Classica Universitatis Scientiarum DebreceniensisActa Classica Universitatis Scientiarum Debreceniensis44Acta Class. Univ. Sci. Debr.2732-3390