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The Eötvös Loránd University or ELTE, founded in 1635, is the largest university in Hungary
, located in Budapest
.
, Slovakia) by the archbishop and theologian Péter Pázmány
. Leadership was given over to the Jesuits. At this time, the university only had two colleges (College of Arts and College of Theology). The College of Law was added in 1667 and the College of Medicine was started in 1769. After the dissolution of the Jesuit order, the university was moved to Buda
(a part of Budapest today) in 1777 in accordance with the intention of the founder. The university received its final location in Pest
(the other side of today's Budapest) in 1784. The language of education was Latin
until 1844, when Hungarian was introduced as an official language. Women have been allowed to enroll since 1895.
It was named University of Budapest until 1921, when it was renamed Pázmány Péter University after the theologian and philosopher Péter Pázmány
(not to be confused with Pázmány Péter Catholic University
, a separate and more recent university). The Faculty of Science started its separate life in 1949. The university received its current name, Eötvös Loránd University, after the physicist Loránd Eötvös
in 1950.
by Shanghai Jiao Tong University
(2010), it was qualified as the best university in Hungary (301-400th in the complete list), with the University of Szeged
.
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
, located in Budapest
Budapest
Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
.
History
The university was founded in 1635 in Nagyszombat (today TrnavaTrnava
Trnava is a city in western Slovakia, 47 km to the north-east of Bratislava, on the Trnávka river. It is the capital of a kraj and of an okres . It was the seat of a Roman Catholic archbishopric . The city has a historic center...
, Slovakia) by the archbishop and theologian Péter Pázmány
Péter Pázmány
Péter Pázmány de Panasz was a Hungarian philosopher, theologian, catholic cardinal, pulpit orator and statesman. He was an important figure in the Counter-Reformation in Royal Hungary. He worked to convert Protestants back to Catholicism in Hungary.His most important legacy was his creation of the...
. Leadership was given over to the Jesuits. At this time, the university only had two colleges (College of Arts and College of Theology). The College of Law was added in 1667 and the College of Medicine was started in 1769. After the dissolution of the Jesuit order, the university was moved to Buda
Buda
For detailed information see: History of Buda CastleBuda is the western part of the Hungarian capital Budapest on the west bank of the Danube. The name Buda takes its name from the name of Bleda the Hun ruler, whose name is also Buda in Hungarian.Buda comprises about one-third of Budapest's...
(a part of Budapest today) in 1777 in accordance with the intention of the founder. The university received its final location in Pest
Pest (city)
Pest is the eastern, mostly flat part of Budapest, Hungary, comprising about two thirds of the city's territory. It is divided from Buda, the other part of Budapest, by the Danube River. Among its most notable parts are the Inner City, including the Hungarian Parliament, Heroes' Square and...
(the other side of today's Budapest) in 1784. The language of education was Latin
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
until 1844, when Hungarian was introduced as an official language. Women have been allowed to enroll since 1895.
It was named University of Budapest until 1921, when it was renamed Pázmány Péter University after the theologian and philosopher Péter Pázmány
Péter Pázmány
Péter Pázmány de Panasz was a Hungarian philosopher, theologian, catholic cardinal, pulpit orator and statesman. He was an important figure in the Counter-Reformation in Royal Hungary. He worked to convert Protestants back to Catholicism in Hungary.His most important legacy was his creation of the...
(not to be confused with Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Pázmány Péter Catholic University is a private university of the Catholic Church in Hungary, recognized by the State. Founded in 1635, the PPCU is one of Hungary's oldest and most prestigious institutions of higher education....
, a separate and more recent university). The Faculty of Science started its separate life in 1949. The university received its current name, Eötvös Loránd University, after the physicist Loránd Eötvös
Loránd Eötvös
Baron Loránd Eötvös de Vásárosnamény , more commonly called Baron Roland von Eötvös in English literature, was a Hungarian physicist. He is remembered today largely for his work on gravitation and surface tension.-Life:...
in 1950.
Today
Today Eötvös Loránd University has 8 different faculties and more than 30,000 students. According to the Academic Ranking of World UniversitiesAcademic Ranking of World Universities
The Academic Ranking of World Universities , commonly known as the Shanghai ranking, is a publication that was founded and compiled by the Shanghai Jiaotong University to rank universities globally. The rankings have been conducted since 2003 and updated annually...
by Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai Jiao Tong University or SJTU), sometimes referred to as Shanghai Jiaotong University , is a top public research university located in Shanghai, China. Shanghai Jiao Tong University is known as one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in China...
(2010), it was qualified as the best university in Hungary (301-400th in the complete list), with the University of Szeged
University of Szeged
The University of Szeged is one of Hungary's most distinguished universities, and is among the most prominent higher education institutions in Central Europe...
.
Faculties
Its eight faculties are the following:- Faculty of Law and Political Sciences (ÁJK)
- Bárczi Gusztáv Faculty of Special Education (BGGyK)
- Faculty of Humanities (BTK)
- Faculty of Informatics (IK)
- Faculty of Education and Psychology (PPK)
- Faculty of Social Sciences (TáTK)
- Faculty of Elementary and Nursery School Teachers' Training (TÓK)
- Faculty of Science (TTK)
Notable alumni
- Miklós AjtaiMiklós AjtaiMiklós Ajtai is a computer scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center. In 2003 he received the Knuth Prize for his numerous contributions to the field, including a classic sorting network algorithm Miklós Ajtai (born 2 July 1946, Budapest, Hungary) is a computer scientist at the IBM Almaden...
, Knuth PrizeKnuth PrizeThe Donald E. Knuth Prize is a prize for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science, named after Donald E. Knuth.-History:...
(2003) - József AntallJózsef AntallJózsef Antall was the first democratically-elected Prime Minister of Hungary after the fall of Communism , teacher, librarian, historian and political figure...
- Wilhelm BacherWilhelm BacherWilhelm Bacher was a Jewish Hungarian scholar, rabbi, Orientalist and linguist, born in Liptó-Szent-Miklós, Hungary to the Hebrew writer Simon Bacher. Wilhelm was himself an incredibly prolific writer, authoring or co-authoring approximately 750 works in an unfortunately short life...
- Albert-László BarabásiAlbert-Laszlo BarabasiAlbert-László Barabási is a physicist, best known for his work in the research of network theory. He is the former Emil T...
, physicist, scale-free networks - Károly BezdekKároly BezdekKároly Bezdek , is a mathematician and professor and a Canada Research Chair at the University of Calgary. Bezdek is also a professor on leave from University of Pannonia and Eötvös Loránd University....
- Georg von BékésyGeorg von BékésyGeorg von Békésy was a Hungarian biophysicist born in Budapest, Hungary.In 1961, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the function of the cochlea in the mammalian hearing organ.-Research:Békésy developed a method for dissecting the inner ear of human...
, Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
in Physiology or Medicine (1961) - Christine L. BorgmanChristine L. BorgmanChristine L. Borgman is Professor and University of California Presidential Chair in Information Studies at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles...
- Zoltán DörnyeiZoltán DörnyeiZoltán Dörnyei is a Professor of Psycholinguistics at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. He is renowned for his work on motivation in second language learning. He has published numerous books and papers on motivation in second language acquisition...
- Tamás Freund, neuro-scientist, one of three (hungarian ) co-winners of the Danish Brain Award 2011
- Laszlo GaraiLaszlo GaraiLászló Garai is a Hungarian scholar of theoretical, social and economic psychology and founding professor of the Department of Economic Psychology at the University of Szeged.- Curriculum vitæ :...
- Ahn Eak-taiAhn Eak-taiAhn Eak-tai was a Korean classical composer and conductor. He conducted numerous major orchestras across Europe, including the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Rome Philharmonic Orchestra...
- Paul ErdősPaul ErdosPaul Erdős was a Hungarian mathematician. Erdős published more papers than any other mathematician in history, working with hundreds of collaborators. He worked on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and probability theory...
- Peter G. GyarmatiPeter G. GyarmatiPeter G. Gyarmati is a software engineer and computer scientist, best-known for the development of OS/360+HASP for the System/360, then later the OS/VS for the System/370, especially the resource allocation system...
- Zsuzsanna JakabZsuzsanna JakabZsuzsanna Jakab , born on 17 May 1951, is Director of the World Health Organization's Regional Office for Europe in Copenhagen, Denmark. She succeeded Marc Danzon on 1 February 2010...
- László KákosyLászló KákosyDr. László Kákosy was a Hungarian Egyptologist, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences...
- Andras KornaiAndras KornaiAndrás Kornai is a well-known mathematical linguist. He earned his mathematics PhD in 1983 from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest where his advisor was Miklós Ajtai...
- Ferenc KrauszFerenc KrauszFerenc Krausz is a Hungarian-Austrian physicist, whose research team has generated and measured the first attosecond light pulse and used it for capturing electrons’ motion inside atoms, marking the birth of attophysics.....
, physicist, founder of atto-physics - Miklós LaczkovichMiklós LaczkovichMiklós Laczkovich is a Hungarian mathematician mainly noted for his work on real analysis and geometric measure theory. His most famous result is the solution of Tarski's circle-squaring problem in 1989.- Career :...
, mathematician - Pál Schiller HarkaiPál Schiller HarkaiPál Schiller Harkai Hungarian philosopher and psychologist.He organized Psychological Institute at Budapest University in 1936.- His career :...
- Ágnes HellerÁgnes HellerÁgnes Heller is a Hungarian philosopher. A prominent Marxist thinker at first, she moved onto a liberal, social-democratic position later in her career...
- John HarsanyiJohn HarsanyiJohn Charles Harsanyi was a Hungarian-Australian-American economist and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner....
, Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
in Economics (1994) - László KalmárLászló KalmárLászló Kalmár was a Hungarian mathematician and Professor at the University of Szeged. Kalmár is considered the founder of mathematical logic and theoretical Computer Science in Hungary.- Biography :...
, mathematician - Radó von Kövesligethy, (astro-and geo-) physicist, Kövesligethys spectralekvation (1885)
- Karl KerényiKarl KerényiKároly Kerényi was a Hungarian scholar in classical philology, one of the founders of modern studies in Greek mythology.- Hungary 1897–1943 :...
, co-founder of modern studies in Greek mythology - László LovászLászló LovászLászló Lovász is a Hungarian mathematician, best known for his work in combinatorics, for which he was awarded the Wolf Prize and the Knuth Prize in 1999, and the Kyoto Prize in 2010....
, mathematician, Knuth PrizeKnuth PrizeThe Donald E. Knuth Prize is a prize for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science, named after Donald E. Knuth.-History:...
(1999), Bolyai prizeBolyai PrizeThe International Bolyai János Prize of Mathematics is an international prize for mathematicians founded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The prize is awarded in every five years to mathematicians having published their monograph describing their own highly important new results in the past 10...
(2007), Kyoto prizeKyoto PrizeThe has been awarded annually since 1985 by the Inamori Foundation, founded by Kazuo Inamori. The prize is a Japanese award similar in intent to the Nobel Prize, as it recognizes outstanding works in the fields of philosophy, arts, science and technology...
(2010) - Ioan LupaşIoan LupasIoan Lupaş was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian historian, academic, politician, Orthodox theologian and priest. He was a member of the Romanian Academy.-Biography:...
- Iuliu ManiuIuliu ManiuIuliu Maniu was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian politician. A leader of the National Party of Transylvania and Banat before and after World War I, he served as Prime Minister of Romania for three terms during 1928–1933, and, with Ion Mihalache, co-founded the National Peasants'...
- László MérőLászló MéroLászló Mérő is a Hungarian research psychologist and popular science author. He is a lecturer at the Experimental Psychology Department of Eötvös Loránd University and at the business school Kürt Academy. He is also a founder and leader of a software company producing computer games...
- Péter MolnárPéter MolnárPéter Molnár is a Hungarian academic and intellectual, working on questions related to communication law and freedom of speech.Molnár graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest in 1987....
- Krisztina MorvaiKrisztina MorvaiKrisztina Morvai is a Hungarian lawyer. She was elected on the list of the political party Jobbik Magyarországért Mozgalom in the 2009 European Parliament elections. Although Morvai is not a member of Jobbik, the party already declared her as its future nominee for the position of the president...
- Teodor MurăşanuTeodor MurasanuTeodor Murăşanu was a writer and teacher in Turda, Romania in the first half of the 20th century....
- Ádám NádasdyÁdám NádasdyÁdám Nádasdy is a Hungarian linguist and poet. He is associate professor at the Department of English Linguistics of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest...
- John von NeumannJohn von NeumannJohn von Neumann was a Hungarian-American mathematician and polymath who made major contributions to a vast number of fields, including set theory, functional analysis, quantum mechanics, ergodic theory, geometry, fluid dynamics, economics and game theory, computer science, numerical analysis,...
,mathematician, inventor of the computer - Viktor OrbánViktor OrbánViktor Orbán is a Hungarian populist and conservative politician and current Prime Minister of Hungary...
, Prime Minister of Hungary, 1998-2002, 2010- - Raphael PataiRaphael PataiRaphael Patai , born Ervin György Patai, was a Hungarian-Jewish ethnographer, historian, Orientalist and anthropologist.-Family background:...
- Rózsa PéterRózsa PéterRózsa Péter , Hungarian name Péter Rózsa, was a Hungarian mathematician. She is best known for her work with recursion theory....
, mathematician - Ágoston PávelÁgoston PávelÁgoston Pável, also known in Slovenian as Avgust Pavel was a Hungarian Slovene writer, poet, ethnologist, linguist and historian....
- Karl PolanyiKarl PolanyiKarl Paul Polanyi was a Hungarian philosopher, political economist and economic anthropologist known for his opposition to traditional economic thought and his book The Great Transformation...
- Michael PolanyiMichael PolanyiMichael Polanyi, FRS was a Hungarian–British polymath, who made important theoretical contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and the theory of knowledge...
, polymath, father of John Polanyi (Nobel prize winner in chemistry) - Peter PulayPeter PulayPeter Pulay is a theoretical chemist. He is the Roger B. Bost Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Arkansas, U.S....
- József SzájerJózsef SzájerJózsef Szájer, is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union party, a Vice-Chairman of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.Szájer is a substitute for the...
- Albert Szent-GyörgyiAlbert Szent-GyörgyiAlbert Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt was a Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with discovering vitamin C and the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle...
, Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
in Physiology or Medicine (1937) - Franz TanglFranz TanglFranz Tangl was a Hungarian physiologist and pathologist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences....
- Éva TardosÉva TardosÉva Tardos is a Hungarian mathematician, winner of the Fulkerson Prize , and professor of Computer Science at Cornell University.Research Interests:...
, member of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesAmerican Academy of Arts and SciencesThe American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an independent policy research center that conducts multidisciplinary studies of complex and emerging problems. The Academy’s elected members are leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business, and public affairs.James Bowdoin, John Adams, and... - Stephen UllmannStephen UllmannStephen Ullmann was a Hungarian linguist who spent most of his life in England and wrote about style and semantics in Romance and common languages....
- Ferenc A. VáliFerenc A. VáliFerenc A. Váli was a Hungarian lawyer, author, and political analyst specialising in International Law. He was born in 1905 in Budapest, Hungary. He received his Doctorate at the University of Budapest in 1927, and his Ph.D. in political science at the University of London in 1932...
- Sándor WekerleSándor WekerleSándor Wekerle was a Hungarian politician who served three times as prime minister.He was born in Mór, in the comitatus of Fejér. His mother was Antónia Szép.After studying law at the University of Budapest he graduated doctor juris...
, three-times prime-minister - Franz Wittmann
- Michael SomogyiMichael SomogyiDr. Michael Somogyi was an Austro-Hungarian- born professor of biochemistry at the Washington University and Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, who prepared the first insulin treatment given to a child with diabetes in the USA in October 1922...
External links
- Eötvös Loránd University (list of faculties)
- ELTE Faculty of Science (description in English)
- ELTE Faculty of Humanities with information on admissions
- Its full history in Hungarian
- Academic Ranking of World Universities - 2005
- Pictures, sorted by faculties
- Site of Faculty of law
- Site of Faculty of Informatics