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and Helvetian), the Unitarian, the Greek-Oriental. th< Armenian,

the Baptist (since 1906), the Jewish, and the Mohammedan (since 1918). Kach h*s th its own a*'

The foil. Duration of the whole

of the former Ki' of the census of

1910:—

Religion

Roman Catholics

.Heal Hclv. Evangelica Greek Oriental. Unitarians Jews Others

Nu;i.

I'er cant, of pop.

10,888,188

52 1

2.025.508

9 7

B2I

126

1,340.14^

6 4

163

14 3

74,296

08

.458

4-5

17.452

O'l

Total

20,886,481

100

Instruction.

Public education in Hungary conipri.-es the following gra ■' I ::fant

schools ; (2) elementary schools ; (3) industrial and i-ommercial apprentice schools ; (4) higher primary and primary schools ; (5) graining colleges for teachers : (6) middle or secondary schools: gymnasia and realschools, secondary schools for girls ; (7) aoatleinies (high schools) of law ; (8) institu- tions for religious education ; (•) universities 5 (10) technical high schools, economic, mining, industrial, and commercial .special schools.

School attendance is compulsory for children of six to twelve years. The industrial law of 1884 requires special courses for apprentices. Every parish or commune is bound, according to its means, to maintain an infant school or permanent or summer fost-r-home. There were iti the school year 1916 altogether 2,285 infants' schools and permanent foster-homes with 214,199 infants, and 9 training colleges for female teachers of infant schools.

In Old Hungary there were in the school-year 1916-17 15,224 elementary schools ; the prevailing language in 12,503 was Hungarian, in 428 German, in 304 Slovak, in 1,707 Rumanian, in 1.767 Croatian and Serb, in 42 other languages. The number of pupils at elementary daily schools was 1,795,443, and the number of teachers 29,611. The "number of primary schools was 533, with 104,355 pupils and 4,256 professors. The number of training colleges for teachers and female teachers for elementary schools was 86, and for primary schools 9.

In the middle schools the curriculum extends over eight years. They are maintained by the State, by the larger communes, or (in the case of the denominational schools) by ecclesiastical foundations, with sometimes a sub- vention from the State. There were in 1916-1917, 186 gymnasia, with 3,198 teachers and 67,190 pupils; 34 realschools, with 628 teachers and 12,662 pupils, and 39 secondary schools for girls, with 802 teachers and 9,899 pupils.

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