National Széchényi Library
Országos Széchényi Könyvtár National Széchényi Library |
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The National Library is located in Buda Castle
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founding | November 25, 1802 |
Duration | 8,000,000 media |
Library type | National Library |
place | Budapest |
ISIL | HU- |
Website | www.oszk.hu |
The National Széchényi Library ( Országos Széchényi Könyvtár in Hungarian ) is the national library of the Hungarian state . Its main tasks are the collection of written cultural heritage, its recording, maintenance and processing as well as the task of making the cultural heritage accessible to the public .
history
The library was founded by Count Ferenc Széchényi on November 25, 1802. It was the first public institute of its kind in Hungary after the Budapest University Library . At the time it was founded, the library had a little over 13,000 books, more than 1,200 manuscripts, several hundred maps, coats of arms, engravings and coins. Its founding document was approved by the king on November 26, 1802, and the institute itself was opened to the public in Pest (eastern part of Budapest) in 1803 . The library was initially financed through voluntary donations.
These funds enabled the opening of the Hungarian National Museum , into whose institutional system the National Library was integrated. After that, the national library was officially called the Széchényi National Library of the National Museum . The coins that were first owned by the library became the property of the museum.
From 1846 to 1847 the National Library was moved to the neo-classical building of the National Museum. In 1949 it became an independent institution again. Since 1985, the National Library has been housed in Building F of Buda Castle .
A preserved in this library card was in 2007 in the World Documentary Heritage of UNESCO added, namely that of Lazarus Secretarius and his teacher Georg Tannstetter designed, in 1528 in Ingolstadt printed map of Hungary: tabula hungariae .
Directors
The National Library has had 25 directors or general directors since it was founded:
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literature
- Gabriella Somkuti: Az Országos Széchényi Könyvtár története, 1802–1918 . OSZK, Budapest 2002, ISBN 963-200-437-X ( digitized version )
See also
- Bibliotheca Corviniana of the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus
Web links
- Official website
- National Széchényi Library at Google Cultural Institute
- Hungarian online library
- Bibliotheca Corviniana Digital
- Picture chronology of Hungary (in Hungarian)
- Entry in the handbook of historical book collections
- Budapest, National Library in the manuscript census of the handwritten transmission of German-language texts from the Middle Ages
Individual evidence
- ^ Reproduction of the map of Hungary
- ↑ Directors , OSZK, accessed April 8, 2012
Coordinates: 47 ° 29 ′ 42 ″ N , 19 ° 2 ′ 21 ″ E