Eötvös Loránd University

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The Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest (Hungarian Eötvös Loránd TUDOMÁNYEGYETEM; Latin Universitas Budapestinensis de Rolando Eötvös nominata ) - ELTE short - is a university in Budapest. She took in 1635 on their teaching and is one of the oldest universities in Hungary. After the physicist Loránd Eötvös it is named since 1950, before it bore the name of its founder Péter Pázmány.

History

The University was founded in 1635 by Cardinal Péter Pázmány, archbishop of Esztergom, in Trnava ( Hungarian Nagyszombat ) as a Jesuit college.

Hungary was occupied at that time part of the Ottoman Empire. For this reason, chose Péter Pázmány Trnava, a city in what was then the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary below. There, the provisional center of the University was established. Pázmány saw, however, from the beginning prior to the relocation to the former Hungarian capital Bratislava at a later date.

Initially there were only a liberal arts and a theological faculty. The first rector of the university was György Dabronoki. Chaired by the faculties led deans, while the Chancellor took over administrative obligations.

A fundamental step in the development of the University presented the founding of the Faculty of Law in 1667 dar. After the founding of the Medical Faculty in 1769 resembled the structure of the University of the other European universities.

At this time, the faculties were divided into 25 institutes. On February 1, 1777 Queen Maria Theresa signed the permission to move the university to Buda. In the same year it opened its doors there in the royal palace.

Within the Faculty of Humanities, the Institute of Engineering was founded in 1782, but taken over in 1857 by the Polytechnic University and eventually became part of the Technical University in 1871. 1784 the University moved to Buda to Pest was called the Royal Hungarian University. Until 1802, the University Library of Budapest took over duties as a national library and national bibliographic center of Hungary. Since 1870 is the Pedagogical Institute. The József Eötvös Collegium was founded in 1895 to increase the educational level of teachers and academics.

The University has always played a big role when it came to the spread of progressive ideas. At the end of the 18th century Enlightenment influenced the educational system significantly. Contact the University had the Hungarian Jacobins. Following the discovery of the movement in 1794 many teachers and students were victims of the repression following. On the Revolution of 1848, which led to the abolition of the feudal system, and students and professors of the University participated.

Until 1949 there was a " Pázmány Péter University of Sciences " from the faculties of Law and Political Sciences, the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Theology. In 1949 the Faculty of Medicine was separated from the University and is since then as Semmelweis University with three faculties. In the same year, the Faculty of Theology their work independently as a Theological Academy continued; it grew later, the Pázmány Péter Catholic University. The division of the Faculty of Arts in addition, the Natural Sciences was formed.

From 1921, the University was named after its founder Péter Pázmány, since 1950 it has been named after Loránd Eötvös, her former rector and professor who discovered the Eötvössche rule.

The biggest change for the university brought in the 1990's a law of the Hungarian Parliament to reorganize the higher education system and institutions should continue with it. The law was passed by Parliament in 1999. It governed a nation-wide integration of various universities, technical schools and faculties. Thus, since for example the institute and Post Graduate Centre for Sociology and Social Policy is part of the Faculty of Humanities. According to the law, the Budapest University of Education ( Budapesti Tanárképző Főiskola ) founded in 1869, was incorporated in 2000.

Over 31,000 students ( as of 2006) are of more than 1,090 professors and lecturers teaching, including 58 regular members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Faculties

Since 1 September 2003, the Eötvös Loránd University consists of eight faculties.

• Faculty of Humanities
• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Natural Sciences
• Faculty of Education and Psychology
• Faculty of Social Sciences
• Faculty of computer science
• Faculty of Primary Education
• Faculty of Special Education

Famous graduates

• Lajos Kossuth (1802-1894), Hungarian freedom fighters
• Béla Hamvas (1897-1968), Hungarian writer
• Fülöp Lénárd (1862-1947), German physicist
• György Békésy (1899-1972), Hungarian physicist and physiologist, Nobel Prize for Medicine (1961 )
• György Hevesy (1885-1966), Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1943 )
• Albert Szent- Györgyi (1893-1986), a Hungarian physician, Nobel Prize for Medicine (1937 )
• Janos Harsanyi (1920-2000), Hungarian - American economist
• John von Neumann (1903-1957), Austro- Hungarian mathematician
• Viktor Orbán (1963 - ), Hungarian Prime Minister

Scientific network

In addition to many international university partnerships is the ELTE Member of:

• Coimbra Group
• The Utrecht Network
• UNICA ( Universities from Capitals of Europe)
• European University Association EUA
• The Danube Rectors Conference
• AUDEM ( Alliance of Universities for Democracy )