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This is a list of famous Transylvanian Saxons. Academics. Adele Zay, (1848–1928), ... This page was last edited on 24 November 2024, at 14:04 (UTC).
Articles about people who were Transylvanian Saxons, people of German ethnicity who were settled in Transylvania (German: Siebenbürgen) in waves starting from the mid-12th century until the late Modern Age (specifically mid-19th century).
Arthur Arz von Straussenburg, Saxon soldier, last military leader of the Austro-Hungarian Army; Miklós Bánffy, Hungarian nobleman, politician, and novelist. Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer; Elek Benedek, Hungarian journalist and writer; István Bethlen, was a Hungarian aristocrat, statesman, Prime Minister from 1921 to 1931.
Lived since the High Middle Ages onwards in Transylvania as well as in other parts of contemporary Romania. Additionally, the Transylvanian Saxons are the eldest ethnic German group in non-native majority German-inhabited Central-Eastern Europe, alongside the Zipsers in Slovakia and Romania (who began to settle in present-day Slovakia starting in the 13th century).
Romanian people in the Principality of Transylvania (1570–1711) (7 P) Romanian people in the Principality of Transylvania (1711–1867) (27 P) Medieval Transylvanian people (15 P)
Illustration from 'Die Gartenlaube' (1884) depicting a group of Transylvanian Saxons during the Middle Ages. The Transylvanian Saxons, a group of the German diaspora which started to settle in Transylvania, present-day Romania, since the high medieval Ostsiedlung, have a regional culture which can be regarded as being both part of the broader German culture as well as the Romanian culture.
This category refers to people of German ethnicity or ancestry who were or are citizens of Romania; it includes members of the Transylvanian Saxon communities and other established ones on the present-day territory of Romania only to the measure were these were also Romanian nationals.
The first Hungarian form recorded was Erdeuelu (12th century, in the Gesta Hungarorum) while the first Romanian form recorded was in 1432 as Ardeliu. [1] [2] The initial a/e difference between the names can be found in other Hungarian loans in Romanian, such as Hungarian egres ‘gooseberry’ → Romanian agriș, agreș, as well as in placenames, e.g., Egyed, Erdőd, Erdőfalva, Esküllő → ...