University of Oradea

In 1780, an "higher institution for philosophical education" was founded in Oradea, transformed in 1788 into a Faculty of Law, the oldest faculty, not only in present-day Romania, but in a vast region of eastern Europe.

Starting with 1921, all the courses of the Faculty of Law were held in Romanian so that in 1923, by founding two theological Academies, the university life of Oradea would receive new dimensions.

The Law Academy of Oradea, together with the two Theological Academies, had to take another step, by integrating a Faculty of Letters, to fulfill an older desideratum of forming a university of Cri?ana in Oradea, only in 1934, in circumstances that are quickly overlooked, the university nucleus in Oradea falls apart, and the Faculty of Law, after a century and a half of uninterrupted activity, is abolished and transferred to Cluj.