National Széchényi Library

Országos Széchényi Könyvtár ; National Széchényi Library
	National Széchényi Library ; The National Library is located in Buda Castle
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 Perczel globe in the map collection of the National Library

A historical map of Vienna in the map collection of the National Library

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:

Jakob Ferdinand Miller (1803-1815)
István Horvát (1815–1846)
Gábor Mátray (1846–1875)
Vilmos Fraknói (1875–1879)
Béla Majláth (1879-1893)
József Szinnyei (1893-1894)
László Fejérpataky (1894-1919)
János Melich (1920–1922)
Bálint Hóman (1923)
Imre Lukinich (1924–1929)
Emil Jakubovich (1930–1934)
József Fitz (1934–1945)
József Györke (1945–1946)

Gábor Tolnai (1946–1947)
Béla Varjas (1948–1957)
Magda Jóború (1958–1966)
Géza Sebestyén (1966–1968)
Magda Jóború (1968–1982)
Péter Zircz (1982)
Ferenc Molnár (1982-1984)
Zoltán Havasi (1984–1986)
Gyula Juhász (1986-1993)
Géza Poprády (1993-1999)
István Monok (1999-2009)
Andrea Sajó (since 2010)

literature

Gabriella Somkuti: Az Országos Széchényi Könyvtár története, 1802–1918 . OSZK, Budapest 2002, ISBN 963-200-437-X ( digitized version )

Web links

Commons : National Széchényi Library - collection of images, videos and audio files

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

47.495 19.039166666667Coordinates: 47 ° 29 ′ 42 ″ N , 19 ° 2 ′ 21 ″ E

[1] Reproduction of the map of Hungary

[2] Directors , OSZK, accessed April 8, 2012