The reform of teacher’s training as a part of the Bologna process of the higher education is one of the key questions of the educational reforms in the European Union today. This reform however aims to transform the historically shaped pattern of teachers’ training model, that followed the patterns of the European trends that were formed inbetween the beginning of 19th century and the middle of 20th century - with some time-lag of course in the different regions. Our research aims to follow the process of the institutionalization of Hungarian teachers’ training and teacher’s knowledge which was characterized by the above mentioned ’dual system’. This process passed off under the influence of the national traditions as well as the central European tendencies. In the centre of our research stand the two different professional knowledg-type (elementary and secondary school teachers’) and also the contents of the theoretical reflection which appeared in the fields of science. Our lecture focuses on this very complex process and analyses the events the Hungarian teacher’s training textbooks and educational publications of the late 19th and early 20th century.