Summary: Kalmán Cyril Rongé (1844–1894) was a teacher and a native of the Banat town of Nagybecskerek (today Zrenjanin, Serbia) in Austria (since 1867 Austria-Hungary), who identified himself as Hungarian but with French family origins. He worked in Bulgaria twice: once in the decade before the Liberation (i.e. between 1869 and 1873) and again in the decade after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 (i.e. from 1879 to 1889). He was a renowned innovator in the Bulgarian educational and pedagogical sector. The study aims to reveal the pedagogical and educational views, ideas, practices and activities of the teacher and writer K. C. Rongé by analyzing his documentary heritage. Since many of the founders of the New Bulgarian education held degrees or came from Central Europe (the Austrian Empire, and from 1867 Austria-Hungary) a foreign innovation could be integrated into Bulgarian society in the mid-nineteenth century, new ideas were introduced, and how Bulgarian society responded to the challenge of innovation.
Keywords: Kalmán Rongé, teaching, education, second half of the 19th cen¬tury, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria
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