“The Youth is the Pledge of the Future!”

This article examines the establishment and significance of the Reformed Study Fund, which enabled Hungarian students to pursue theological education at the Free University in Amsterdam or the Theological University in Kampen. Established in 1921, this fund continued the tradition of the 1761 Bernardinum Scholarship, which facilitated Hungarian and Palatine students’ studies in Utrecht. The research explores the fund’s initiator, Jenő Sebestyén, an advocate of neo-Calvinist Abraham Kuyper, founder of Amsterdam’s Free University and influential leader within the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands – a denomination emerging from the 1892 schism in the Reformed Church. The paper analyses this ecclesiastical division, the strengthening Dutch-Hungarian relations following the First World War, and the subsequent foundation of the Reformed Study Fund.