Robert William Seton-Watson (British historian and journalist of Scottish origin) decided to dedicate the income from the Czech translation of his work Racial Problems in Hungary (book dealt with living conditions of the non-Hungarian nations in Hungary) to the Slovak students. In cooperation with Milan Hodža (Slovakian politician) and Anton Štefánek (Slovakian politician, sociologist, later considered as a founder of Slovakian sociology as a science) they managed to choose six students who were supposed to go for one-semester studies to the University of Edinburgh. Over the course of three years, the following pairs of Slovaks were studying there: Fedor Ruppeldt and Vladimír Roy, Ľudovít Šenšel and Martin Rázus, Jozef Koreň and Peter Halaša. At the time of their arrival to Scotland, they all have been ordained evangelical priests; their stay in Scotland was not only to improve their theological knowledge, but also to obtain new contacts with Scottish ecclesiastical authorities, and to gain a new perspective on the organization of ecclesial life, too.