University of Debrecen

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The University of Debrecen (Hungarian Debreceni Egyetem ) is one of the most famous universities in Hungary. It emerged from a merger of four existing universities, which were combined on 1 January 2000 to the University of Debrecen:

Lajos Kossuth University
Medical University of Debrecen
University of Agriculture in Debrecen
College of Education " István Wargha " in Hajdúböszörmény

2.1 beginnings
2.2 Royal University
2.3 creation of a new university building
2.4 The period of fragmentation from 1945 to 1989
2.5 Neuvereinigung 1989-1999
2.6 The new University of Debrecen 2000
2.7 The University of Debrecen today

Structure

The university is organized into the following faculties:

Faculty of Agricultural Economics ( Agrárgazdasági és Vidékfejlesztési Kar )
Faculty of Law and Political Sciences ( Allam - és Jogtudományi Kar )
Faculty of General Medical Sciences ( Általános Orvostudományi Kar )
Faculty of Humanities ( Bölcsészettudományi Kar )
Department of Musicology, Debrecen Conservatory ( Debreceni Egyetem Konzervatóriuma )
Faculty of Health Sciences ( Egészségügyi főiskolai Kar )
Faculty of Dentistry ( Fogorvostudományi Kar )
Faculty of Pharmacy ( Gyógyszerésztudományi Kar )
Faculty of Education Hajdúböszörmény ( Hajdúböszörményi Pedagógiai főiskolai Kar )
Faculty of computer science ( Informatikai Kar )
Faculty of Economics ( Közgazdaságtudományi Kar )
Faculty of Agricultural Sciences ( Mezőgazdaságtudományi Kar )
Faculty of Engineering ( Műszaki Kar )
Faculty of Natural Sciences ( Természettudományi Kar )

Library

The University of Debrecen is home to the second largest National Library of Hungary with collections on humanities and social sciences, natural sciences, agricultural sciences, engineering, education, business, law and musicology. Your archive is home to more than 6 million volumes.

Summer University

1927 launched the university, with its still beyond the borders of Hungary famous language courses in their specially established Summer University. She was the only institution of its kind to foreigners or foreign language learning enabled learning the Hungarian language. Addition to language, Hungarian history and cultural studies is taught under the term Hungarology. The Debreceni Egyetem Nyári is an independent institution that is subordinate to the university.

History

The roots of the University date back to the 16th century, when in 1538 in Debrecen Calvinist College (Hungarian Debreceni Református Kollégium ) was founded. As early as 1567, the College began with the training of pastors and teachers. The College has been for centuries an important center of research and teaching of the Hungarian language and culture.

From 1588, all graduates of the college are already known by name. The students had one equipped with strong representation rights, Coetus who was involved in addition to the Rector in the municipal council. From this time well-known textbook Publications of the University, as a legal manual, 1577 Arithmeticaja János Laskói, Dicta Graecia sapientum and interprete Erasmo Rotterdamo and Civilitas morum Erasmi already come.

Royal University

King Franz Joseph founded on July 7 of 1912, the Royal University of Debrecen, in the three faculties of the Calvinist College of newly founded university were incorporated. Were planned following five faculties:

Reformed Theology
Law and Political Sciences
Medical Sciences
Humanities, Language and Historical Sciences
Natural sciences

In 1914, the university in October their operation in the buildings of the Calvinist College on. As of 1921, the university is named after one of her former students, István Tisza, in whose honor in 1923 a statue was erected in front of the hospital main building.

Creation of a new university building

In 1913, the plan was to locate the university on its own campus - the " university city " ( Egyetemváros ). The university was located with its clinics in the area used today for the north of the city on the edge of the great forest ( Nagyerdő ). The campus was divided into the following systems and equipment:

Complex of the Medical Faculty
Main building with library
Natural Sciences Building
Botanical Gardens and Glasshouses
Apartment Villas for professors and teachers
Youth sports grounds ( in Hungary is sports a compulsory subject for each study)

Begun in 1914, the University was inaugurated solemnly IV on 23 October 1918 by King Charles. However, the completion of the building was delayed because of the war - as was only in 1921 commence full operation, the clinic, the entire area was not completed until 1927. The centrally located on campus today dominant main building was built in 1927-1932 by the architect Flóris basket. In 1930 the observatory and the botanical garden was built in 1933. 1939-1942 next to the main building, the university church was built according to plans by József Borsos.

The time of fragmentation 1945-1989

With the seizure of power of the socialist regime all traces of István Tisza were away at university - demolished his statue. 1949 Humanities and Natural Sciences were divided and dissolved the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Theology in 1950 and 1951, the Medical Faculty spun off into their own universities. The Faculty of Humanities was reduced even further: The teaching in the languages English, French, German and Latin was shortly set to 1958. The Faculty of Theology is still subordinate to this day one of the Calvinist diocese independent university. Consisting of the Humanities and the Faculty of Science University of remaining was named 1952 Lajos Kossuth University. With the division of the university, it later came to an extension of the teaching spectrum: In 1953, the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Debrecen - later University of Agricultural Sciences. In 1966 the Academy of Music and in 1972 the Institute of Technology. In 1971 the nursery high school Hajdúböszörmény on their teaching.

Neuvereinigung 1989-1999

Mid-1980s, the party endeavored a reunion of the scattered institutes and colleges into a university. On 22 June 1991 announced President Árpád Göncz the reunification of the universities to the University Association (Debrecen Debreceni Universitas Egyesülést ( DUE) ) consisting of the University of Agricultural Sciences ( Debreceni Agrartudományi Egyetem ( DATE) ), the Medical University ( Debreceni Orvostudományi Egyetem ( DOTE ) ), the Lajos Kossuth University ( Kossuth Lajos TUDOMÁNYEGYETEM KLTE ), the Reformed Theological College ( Debreceni Református Teológiai Akadémia ( DRTA, DRHE ) ) and the atomic nucleus research Institute (MTA Atommagkutató Intézet ( ATOMKI ) ). The Association of Universities was not legally be regarded as a university, but the plan was the creation of a university from the union. Began in 1996 with the support of the World Bank, the further integration of the individual, independent universities to a common University in Debrecen. In 1998, the Franz Liszt Academy of Music has been included in these plans.

The new University of Debrecen 2000

On 1 January 2000, the combined faculties or universities participated in Debrecen under the name " University of Debrecen " ( Debreceni Egyetem, ' DE) to operate on. The merged institutions or faculties were now seen legally a university. In 2000, the University had at their reunion five university faculties, three university departments and two independent institutions:

General Medical Sciences
Faculty of Humanities
Faculty of Economics
Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
Faculty of Science
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Education Hajdúböszörmény
Faculty of Law and Political Sciences
Conservatory of Debrecen

After the union of a continuous development was observed. So in 2002 the Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, 2003, the Faculty of Dentistry and the Faculty of Pharmacy were founded. 2004 separated into the Faculty of Science from the Institute of Mathematics, the Institute of computer science and formed the independent Faculty of computer science.

The University of Debrecen today

Today the University has 10 academic faculties and three university departments as well as 2 separate institutes. The establishment of a Department of Public Health is currently in the making.

Famous graduates

Endre Ady (1877-1919), poet
János Arany (1817-1882), poet
Ézsaiás Budai (1760-1841), historian and philologist
Mihály Csokonai Vitez (1773-1805), poet
Bálint Csűry, linguists
Pál Ember Debreczeni, theologian
Dezso Baltazar (1871-1936), theologian and jurist
Sámuel Diószegi (1760-1813), botanist and theologian
Lajos Domokos (1728-1803), writer and politician
Mihály Fazekas (1766-1828), poet and botanist
István Hatvani (1718-1785), mathematician and scientist
Endre Hőgyes (1847-1906), physician
Sándor Imre, Literature and linguistics
Ferenc Kerekes (1799-1850), chemist and mathematician
Ferenc Kolcsey (1790-1838), politician, reformer, and poet
Sándor Kövy, jurist and theologian
Lugossy József (1812-1884), orientalist and linguist
Maróthi György (1715-1744), mathematician and music theorist
Ferenc Medgyessy (1881-1958), sculptor ( Steinmetz )
Zsigmond Móricz (1879-1942), writer
József Pápay, linguists
Imre Revesz, theologian
István Weszprémi (1723-1799), physician and medical historian

Partner universities

The University of Debrecen has around the world partner universities:

University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA
San Diego State University, USA
University of Georgia, USA
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, United States
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Constantine Preslawski University of Shumen, Bulgaria
University of Reading, UK
Polytechnic University of Jyväskylä, Finland
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
University of Clermont -Ferrand II Blaise Pascal, France
University of Leiden, The Netherlands
Ahmad Dahlan University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
University of Haifa, Israel
Tohoku University, Sendai, Honshu, Japan
University of Chiba, Honshu, Japan
University of Hirosaki, Japan
University of Rostock, Germany
University of Paderborn, Germany
Humboldt -Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Universitatea de Vest Vasile Goldis, Romania
University of Oradea, Romania
Christian University of Partium Oradea, Romania
University of the West Timisoara, Romania
Babeş - Bolyai University, Cluj -Napoca, Romania
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University of Košice, Slovakia
State University of Uzhgorod, Ukraine

Hungarian studies Central European University Budapest University of Jewish Studies

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