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Joseph Haltrich, author of fairytales/stories for children from the Transylvanian Saxon folklore; Dutz Schuster, writer and poet; Oskar Pastior, poet; Dr. Misch Orend, author, "Kruge und Teller", and other works about Transylvania
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.
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).
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).
Transylvanian School (8 P) Pages in category "People from Transylvania" ... This page was last edited on 12 February 2021, at 13:41 (UTC).
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 is a list of localities in Transylvania that were, either in majority or in minority, historically inhabited by Transylvanian Saxons, having either churches placed in refuge castles for the local population (German: Kirchenburg = fortress church or Wehrkirche = fortified church), or only village churches (German: Dorfkirchen) built by the Transylvanian Saxons.
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 → ...