The Faculty of Humanities is the oldest faculty of Eötvös Loránd University in Józsefváros, Budapest, Hungary. It was founded by the Cardinal Archbishop of Esztergom Prince Primate of Hungary, Péter Pázmány, in 1635.

History

The Faculty of Humanities of the Eötvös Loránd University was founded by Péter Pázmány, Archbishop of Esztergom, on May 12, 1635. The university was operated by the Society of Jesus and it consisted of two faculties: The Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Theology. At that time, students could obtain three academic titles: Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, and Doctor of Philosophy.

In 1770, the Faculty of Humanities adopted the reforms introduced at the University of Vienna. The university then became state-owned, and a dean and a director of the Faculty were appointed to monitor its functioning. In 1777, the Faculty of Humanities was moved to Buda, the western part of today's Budapest, along with the faculty of Theology and the Faculty of Law. However, the faculties were moved back seven years later.

The late 18th century also saw changes in the university. The changes closely followed the pattern employed at the University of Vienna, but the language of teaching remained Latin until 1844. The Hungarian Revolution of 1848 leading to a university reform program designed by József Eötvös in 1850, being implemented.

The Faculty of Primary and Pre-school Education was established in 2000. The Faculty of Psychology and Education and the Faculty of Sociology were created in 2003.

In 2018, Viktor Orbán's chief of staff announced that government would no longer finance any university programmes on gender studies.

In 2018, many institutes of the Faculty expressed their solidarity with the George Soros-founded Central European University.

On August 12, 2019, the Faculty's former student and professor, Agnes Heller, died.

On September 5, 2022, the Dean of the Faculty announced that the autumn break would be postponed to December and the exams would be held online due to the energy crisis caused by the Russo-Ukrainian war.

Institutes The Faculty of Humanities consists of 18 institutes: Institute of Ancient and Classical Studies Institute of Archaeological Sciences Institute of Arts Communication and Music Institute of Art History Institute of East Asian Studies Institute of Ethnography and Folklore Institute of Germanic Studies Institute of Hungarian Linguistics and Finno-Ugric Studies Institute of Hungarian Literature and Cultural Studies Institute of Historical Studies Institute of Language Mediation Institute of Library and Information Science Institute of Oriental Studies Institute of Philosophy Institute of Romance Studies Institute of Slavonic and Baltic Philology Institute for The Theory of Art and Media Studies School of English and American Studies

Organisation The current leadership consists of 1 dean and 4 vice-deans. Faculty leadership Title Name Dean Dávid Bartus Sub-dean Ildikó HornKrisztina HorváthJudit BónaIldikó Horváth

Former Deans

1900–01: Frigyes Medveczky 1902–03: Imre Payer 1908–09: Oszkár Asbóth 1917–18: Ignác Goldziher 1925–26: Arthur Yolland 1927–28: Lajos Méhelÿ 1928–29: Antal Hekler 1932–33: Gyula Németh 1933–34: Gyula Kornis 1934–35: Zoltán Gombocz 1934–35: Gyula Németh 1944–47: István Hajnal 1956–57: István Kniezsa 1969–75: György Székely 2000–01: Sándor Fodor

Honorary doctors The following people were awarded with Honorary titles by the Faculty of Humanities. 2020–21:  Marie-Vic Ozouf-Marignier, az École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) professzora 2019–20:  Claus von Carnap-Bornheimet, a Christian-Albrechts-Universität professzora 2017–18: Waldemar Zacharasiewicz, professor of University of Vienna 2016–17: Miklós Szabó, professor emeritus 2016–17: Xu Lin, director of Language Education Council in China 2015–16: Janusz K. Kozlowski, archeologist (professor emeritus) 2014–15: Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel prize winner writer 2013–14: Robert John Weston Evans, professor of Oxford University 2012–13: Dominique Combe, professor of École normale supérieure 2012–13: Harriet Zuckerman, professor of Columbia University 2012–13: Reinhard Olt, correspondent of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Budapest 2011–12: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, professor of Stanford University 2010–11: Jacques Roubaud, contemporary French poet, mathematician, member of Oulipo 2010–11: Ferenc Pölöskei, professor at Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem 2009–10: José Saramago, Nobel Prize-winning writer† 2008–09: Zsigmond Ritoók, professor emeritus

Research Currently, there are twenty-four research centres at the department level, institution level, and faculty level.

Notable researchers Institute Researcher Institute of Ancient and Classical Studies László Kákosy Institute of Art History Katalin Keserü Institute of East Asian Studies Mózes Csoma, Imre Hamar, Gábor Kósa, András Róna-Tas, Judit Vihar Institute of Germanic Studies Koloman BrennerInstitute of Historical StudiesGéza Alföldy, Ferenc Glatz, István Hahn, Antal Hekler, Gábor Klaniczay, Károly Marót, Tibor Szamuely, Gábor Vékony Institute of Hungarian Linguistics and Finno-Ugric Studies Katalin É. Kiss, Kinga Fabó, Géza Fodor Institute of Library and Information Science Tom Hubbard, György SebestyénInstitute of Oriental Studies Zsuzsa Kakuk, Gyula Németh, Edit Tasnádi Institute of Philosophy Bernhard Alexander, Géza Fodor, Ágnes Heller, Gyula Kornis, Ákos Pauler, József de Révay, József Szigeti Institute of Romance Studies Kálmán Faluba, Béla Köpeczi, Alexandru RomanInstitute of Slavonic and Baltic Philology Mária Bajzek Lukács, Nina Király, Jerzy Snopek School of English and American Studies Zsófia Bán, Enikő Bollobás, Kata Csizér, Zoltán Dörnyei, Ágnes Gergely, Katalin É. Kiss, Zoltán Kövecses, Tibor Frank, Judit Kormos, Tibor Lutter, Péter Medgyes, Ádám Nádasdy, Miklós Szenczi, Arthur J. Patterson, Arthur B. Yolland

Notable alumni

Magda Ádám, historian

Géza Alföldy, historian József Antall, Prime Minister of Hungary, 1990–1993 Wilhelm Bacher, Jewish Hungarian scholar, rabbi, Orientalist, and linguist Erzsébet Bajári, entomologist, wasp researcher Zsófia Bán, writer György Bence, philosopher Therese Benedek, Hungarian-American psychoanalyst Nóra Berend, historian András Bereznay, historian Maria Berényi, historian and poet Jakob Bleyer, literary scholar Koloman Brenner, politician György Csepeli, psychologist Kata Csizér, applied linguist Mózes Csoma, koreanist Sándor Csoóri, writer Zoltán Dörnyei, applied linguist Ahn Eak-tai, Korean classical composer Péter Esterházy, novelist Kinga Fabó, poet, essayist, and linguist Endre Fülei-Szántó, linguist Alabert Fogarasi, philosopher Tibor Frank, historian László Garai, scholar of psychology Ágnes Gergely, writer Ferenc Glatz, historian (1964) István Hahn, historian Imre Hamar, sinologist Béla Hamvas, poet Pál Schiller Harkai, philosopher and psychologist Ágnes Heller, philosopher István Hiller, politician Rózsa Hoffmann, politician Zsuzsanna Jakab, director of the World Health Organization's Regional Office for Europe László Kákosy, egyptologist András Kenessei, art historian, writer and journalist Karl Kerényi, scholar in classical philology, co-founder of modern studies in Greek mythology György Konrád, novelist Judit Kormos, applied linguist Gyula Kornis, philosopher László Krasznahorkai, writer Viktor Kubiszyn, writer Endre Kukorelly, writer György Lukács, philosopher Tibor Lutter, literary scholar Bálint Magyar, politician Károly Marót, historian Péter Medgyes, linguist László Mérő, research psychologist and popular science author István Mészáros, philosopher Teodor Murăşanu, Romanian writer and teacher Ádám Nádasdy, linguist and poet Gábor Nógrádi, poet Eszter Ónodi, actress Raphael Patai, Hungarian-Jewish ethnographer, historian, Orientalist and anthropologist Ákos Pauler, philosopher Arthur J. Patterson, literary scholar Ágoston Pável, Hungarian Slovene writer, poet, ethnologist, linguist and historian Csaba Pléh, psychologist Karl Polanyi, philosopher and historian László Rudas, philosopher Mária Schmidt, historian Tamás Soproni, politician József Szájer, MEP (Fidesz) Miklós Szenczi, literary scholar Viktor Szigetvári, politician Ágnes Szokolszky, psychologist Stephen Ullmann, linguist of Romance languages, scholar of semantics Maria Sarungi Tsehai, activist István Stumpf, politician Gábor Vona, politician Moritz Wahrmann, politician Sándor Wekerle, three-time prime minister of the Kingdom of Hungary István Winkler, psychologist Arthur B. Yolland, literary scholar

Library

The Faculty has one main library, located in Trefort Garden, and 13 libraries at institutional levels. The Institute of Romance Studies has libraries at the departmental level. School of English and American Studies Library Institute of Philosophy Library Institute of Germanic Studies Library Institute of Library and Information Science Library Institute of Hungarian Literature and Cultural Studies Toldy Ferenc Library Institute of Hungarian Linguistics and Finno-Ugric Studies Library Institute of Art History Library Institute of Ethnography and Folklore Library Institute of Ancient and Classical Studies Harmatta János Library Institute of Archaeological Sciences Library Institute of Slavonic and Baltic Philology Library Institute of East Asian Studies Library Institute of Historical Studies Szekfű Gyula Library The library of Medieval Studies of the Central European University was located in the building of ELTE's Faculty of Humanities.

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