Budapest University Library
| Budapest University Library | |
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| founding | 1561 |
| Duration | 1.5 million media |
| Library type | University library |
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| management | Katalin Kálóczi |
| Website | www.konyvtar.elte.hu |
The Budapest University Library (Hungarian: Egyetemi Könyvtár , Latin: Bibliotheca Universitatis ) is the library of the Loránd Eötvös University of Budapest (ELTE). Its inventory comprises around 1.5 million bibliographic media units.
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Beginnings as a Jesuit library
The Budapest University Library is the oldest university library in Hungary .
For the first few decades the library belonged to the Jesuit college of Tyrnau (today: Trnava) in what was then Upper Hungary. The library was founded in 1561 by the Archbishop of Gran, Miklós Oláh (1493–1568). It was not until 1635 that the then Archbishop Péter Pázmány (1570–1637) had the University of Tyrnau founded, and the college library became a university library.
Moved to Budapest
The university and library were secularized by Queen Maria Theresa in 1773 , and both were declared state and public. Both facilities were moved to Buda (Ofen) in 1777 and finally to Pest in 1784 . At that time the library holdings numbered around 15,000 volumes. Between 1780 and 1790, the University Library received a large increase from the former monastery libraries of various Roman Catholic religious orders.
At the beginning of the 19th century, the Budapest University Library was the most important library in Hungary and also had functions as the national library. Its holdings were expanded through acquisitions until the present-day Széchényi National Library was founded in 1802 . The total inventory of the University Library comprised around 520,000 volumes in 1918 and around 800,000 volumes in 1945. Through the exchange of documents, purchases and deposit copies, their inventory has grown to 1,500,000 media units to date.
In 2011 the university library celebrated its 450th anniversary.
Directors
The library has had nineteen directors since its nationalization . In the first few years after moving to Buda there were two co-directors. In 1780 Bretschneider was appointed general manager and Pray became its deputy director. Bretschneider, who came from Saxony, was a staunch Josephinist and had to resist the still strong ideological influence of the Jesuits . He created the first library catalog ; after four years, however, a Jesuit took over again with Pray.
- György Lakits (1774–1780)
- Csapodi Lajos (1774–1777) and György Pray (1777–1780)
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main building
The central library of the UB is housed in its main building on Franziskanerplatz ( Ferenciek tere ) in the fifth Belváros-Lipótváros district of Budapest . The house, built between 1873 and 1876 by the Hungarian architect Antal Szkalnitzky in the eclectic style of the neo-renaissance , was one of the first representative buildings of the city unified in 1873.
Collections and holdings
General collections
In addition to the central library, the university library has a network of eight faculty libraries and more than 50 institute and other specialist libraries, with a focus on philosophy, general psychology, general history of the Middle Ages and modern times , history of religion, religious studies, Hungarian literature and foreign literature.
The media inventory up to 1900 comprises around 350,000 volumes, with around half (174,500 volumes) in foreign-language literature. The proportion of German-language literature up to 1900 was around 15% (52,000 volumes).
Faculty Libraries
- Faculty Library of the Faculty of Law
- Faculty library of the curative education faculty
- Faculty library of the Philosophical Faculty
- Faculty library of the Faculty of Computer Science
- Faculty library of the Pedagogical and Psychological Faculty
- Faculty library of the primary and secondary education faculty
- Faculty library of the Faculty of Natural Sciences
- Faculty library of the Faculty of Social Sciences
Faculty-independent specialist libraries
- Library of the Botanical Garden
- Library of the inter-university center for French Romance studies
- Library of the Confucius Institute
- Gothard Astrophysical Observatory Library
Special collections
Collection of manuscripts and rarities
The interdisciplinary holdings of the manuscripts and raras collection of the Budapest University Library are considered to be one of the most important academic centers of Hungarian and European cultural history.
The manuscript archive includes a codex collection of almost two hundred, mainly Latin codices , manuscripts from the so-called subject system collection of the individual faculty libraries, as well as source collections from Jesuit historians, and a collection of guild letters (Litterae Coehales).
The rare collection consists of the most important incunabula collection in Hungary with over 1,000 bibliographical units, the "Old Hungarian Library" (RMK) with around 2,000 bibliographical units and the "Rariora Hungarica Collection" with rare Hungarian literature from the Middle Ages . The collection of engravings, maps and landscapes, the collection of small prints, the collection of party history and a microfilm collection also belong to the rarity collection .
Old prints
A total of around 65,000 volumes in the Alte Drucke holdings are part of the old holdings , i.e. from the times before the university library was secularized in 1777 . The university library has around 9,600 bibliographical units from the 16th century, almost 11,000 bibliographical units from the 17th century and around 45,000 bibliographical units from the 18th century.
See also
- Bibliotheca Corviniana of the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus
literature
- Miklós Vértesy : The History of the Incunabula Collection of the University Library in Budapest. Contributions to incunabulum. 3rd episode, Vol. 3. Berlin, 1968, pp. 107-121.
- András Tóth, Miklós Vértesy: The History of the Budapest University Library (1561-1944). Budapest 1982.
Web links
- Official site (Hungarian, English, German)
- Digitized basic catalog of the collection of old prints
- Entry in the handbook of historical book collections
- Budapest, university library in the manuscript census of the handwritten tradition of German-language texts from the Middle Ages
Individual evidence
- ↑ Department of Old Prints ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Library of the Eötvös Lorand University
- ↑ Description of the holdings of the Budapest University Library in the science portal b2i
- ↑ Collection of manuscripts and rarities ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Library of the Eötvös Lorand University
- ↑ Department of Old Prints ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Library of the Eötvös Lorand University
