150 YEARS OF HIGHER AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN TRANSYLVANIA, 1869 – 2019

Abstract

The University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca, ranked today among the most prestigious universities in the country and in Europe, celebrates this year, 2019, 150 years of productive existence!
The School of Agronomy of Cluj laid its foundations in 1869, when the Institute of Agronomic Studies was established, during the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph (1830-1916) as Transylvania belonged at the time to the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. The new higher school counted on a dowry consisting in 730 acres (420 hectares) of land taken from the Roman Catholic status and from the buildings around the old Benedictine Monastery on ″Dealul Craiului″ (nowadays the location belonging to the university).