peregrináció

After the Fall of Heidelberg (September 6, 1622) Protestant Students from Hungary and Transylvania went on their way directly to the Northern Netherlands, in order to continue their studies there at the Dutch Universities – especially in Philosophy, Theology and Medicine. So a first group of Students arrived at Franeker – a small town in Frisia – at the end of August, 1623. Until the year 1811, as the local Frisian University was closed, more than 1200 Hungarians were registered in the Franeker Album Studiosorum, a significantly larger number than everywhere else in the Dutch Republic.

During their stay in the northern Netherlands (Utrecht, Groningen, Franeker) a circle of most talented Hungarian Peregrini around Georgius/György T. Martonfalvi wrote Greeting Poems (carmina gratulatoria) in Latin, Greek and even in Hebrew. Petrus/ Péter P. Csedregi, a student who started his studies at Sárospatak, also belonged to that circle of Peregrini.