Hungarian Academy of Sciences

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Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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founding November 3, 1825
Sponsorship state
place Budapest , Hungary
president László Lovász (2014)
Students 2500 PhD students
Website www.mta.hu
Hungarian Academy of Sciences

The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( MTA for short , Hungarian Magyar Tudományos Akadémia ) is the highest scientific institution in Budapest , Hungary . It is based in Budapest and has over 100 research groups and institutes in several district capitals, including Debrecen , Sopron ( GGRI ) and Miskolc . The academy has been divided into eleven sections since 1994 .

history

The academy was founded on November 3, 1825 under the mentor Count Széchenyi in Pressburg , the seat of the Hungarian Parliament at that time. The count, who worked as an entrepreneur in Vienna, was one of the best-known science and art patrons of the Austrian Empire in the time of Metternich and became the innovator of the Magyar nation. He offered his annual income for the foundation. His father, Ferenc Széchényi , founded the Hungarian National Museum in 1802 by donating his collections .

The name of the academy originated in 1845. The building, built by the architect Friedrich August Stüler in the neo-renaissance style, was inaugurated in 1865.

In the first decades - especially up to the Austro-Hungarian Compromise in 1866 - the academy a. a. with the Hungarian education system . After the political status of Hungary had been clarified, it was able to focus increasingly on the promotion of science from 1867 and has been divided into three main areas for a long time (according to the English homepage):

  • Linguistics and Fine Arts
  • Philosophical, social and historical sciences
  • Mathematics and natural sciences.

Since 2003, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in collaboration with the UNESCO , the European Commission and the International Council for Science (ICSU), the World Science Forum (WSF, dt. World Science Forum ), the world's largest international conferences on the global science policy . It takes place since 2003 every two years in the Hungarian capital Budapest place and sees itself in science as the future equivalent of the annual World Economic Forum (World Economic Forum) in Davos, Switzerland, as "the Davos of science".

Academy members and departments

According to the Academy Act of 1994, the number of ordinary academy members may not exceed 200 (but older people over 70 years of age do not count). Other outstanding scientists can - as is customary internationally - be co-opted as corresponding or external members.

The Academy of Sciences is divided into eleven departments:

In 2012, Division II was reclassified and the Humanities Research Center (Bölcsészettudományi kutatóközpont; MTA BTK) was founded. Since then, the Archaeological Institute, the Institute for Musicology, the Institute for Literary Studies, the Institute for History and the Philosophical Institute have been united under this roof.

President of the Academy

József Teleki November 17, 1 1830 - February 15, 1855
Emil Dessewffy April 17, 1855 - January 10, 1866
József Eötvös March 18, 1866 - February 2, 1871
Menyhért Lónyay May 17, 1871 - November 3, 1884
Agoston Trefort May 28, 1885 - August 22, 1888
Loránd Eötvös May 3, 1889 - October 5, 1905
Albert Berzeviczy November 27, 1905 - March 22, 1936
Joseph August of Austria March 22, 1936 - October 1944
Gyula Kornis March 7, 1945 - October 29, 1945
Gyula Moór October 29, 1945 - July 24, 1946
Zoltán Kodály July 24, 1946 - November 29, 1949
István Rusznyák November 29, 1949 - February 5, 1970
Tibor Erdey-Grúz February 5, 1970 - August 16, 1976
János Szentágothai October 26, 1976 - May 6, 1977
János Szentágothai May 6, 1977 - May 10, 1985
Iván T. Berend May 10, 1985 - May 24, 1990
Domokos Kosáry May 24, 1990 - May 9, 1996
Ferenc Glatz May 9, 1996 - May 4, 2002
Szilveszter Vizi May 5, 2002 - May 6, 2008
József Pálinkás May 6, 2008 - May 6, 2014
László Lovász May 6, 2014 -

Nobel Prize winners produced by the Academy

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Research institutes

The MTA is divided into around 40 of its own research institutes and also maintains over 100 research groups at the following universities :

Others

János Áder , Hungarian President since May 2, 2012, worked at the MTA at the Institute of Sociology. His specialty was the legislative work of Parliament.

See also

Web links

Commons : Hungarian Academy of Sciences  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Centenary of the Hungarian Academy . Short message in: Vossische Zeitung , July 3, 1925, morning edition, p. 11.
  2. ^ The Reichstag was convened at the instigation of Palatine Joseph . Joseph donated an amount of 10,000 guilders to found the academy .
  3. ↑ UAW website with the award winners and each short biography (English) ( memento of the original from October 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 12, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mta.hu

Coordinates: 47 ° 30 ′ 4.3 ″  N , 19 ° 2 ′ 47.2 ″  E