ELTE Faculty of Humanities

The Faculty of Humanities is the oldest faculty of Eötvös Loránd University and is located on the institution's Trefort Garden campus in Józsefváros, Budapest, Hungary.[1] It was founded by the Cardinal Archbishop of Esztergom Prince Primate of Hungary, Péter Pázmány, in 1635.

Eötvös Loránd University – Faculty of Humanities
ELTE Bölcsészettudományi Kar
The main building of the Faculty of Humanities.
Established1635
DeanDávid Bartus
Academic staff
589
Students6960
Address
4 Múzeum körút
,
Budapest
,
1088
,
Hungary
CampusUrban
Sporting affiliations
Budapesti EAC
Websitebtk.elte.hu

History
The School of English and American Studies is located at the Hotel Pannónia

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.

Initially, there was only a three-year teaching program and 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. However, the language of teaching remained Latin until 1844. The Hungarian Revolution of 1848 also affected the university, since a university reform program, designed by József Eötvös in 1850, restructured the educational system. Included in those changes: the two-year introductory course was abandoned and was replaced with a four-year program. In addition, the Faculty of Humanities became equal to other faculties of the university.

Not many students attended in the 1850s. However, an increase of students could be seen in the late 18th century.

In 1983, the Faculty of Teacher Training was established which meant the faculty of Humanities did not train primary and secondary school teachers. However, in 2003 the Faculty of Teacher Training was terminated and the Faculty of Humanities started training teachers again along with the Faculty of Natural Sciences.

The early 2000s saw major changes in the system of the Faculty of Humanities after new faculties were created. First, the Faculty of Primary and Pre-school Education was established in 2000. Second, the Faculty of Psychology and Education and the Faculty of Sociology were created in 2003.[2]

In 2005, Tibor Frank, professor at the School of English & American Studies, was interviewed by BBC on the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.[3]

In 2016, the findings of the Faculty's researchers on the Viking culture were featured in The Times.[4]

In 2018, Viktor Orbán's chief of staff announced that government would no longer finance any university programmes on gender studies.[5]

In 2018, many institutes of the Faculty expressed their solidarity with the George Soros-founded Central European University.[6]

On August 12, 2019, the Faculty's former student and professor, Agnes Heller, died.[7]

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.[8]

Institutes

The Faculty of Humanities consists of 16 institutes:[9]

Institute of Ancient and Classical Studies[10] Institute of Archaeological Sciences[11]
Institute of Arts Communication and Music[12] Institute of Art History[13]
Institute of East Asian Studies[14] Institute of Ethnography and Folklore[15]
Institute of Germanic Studies[16] Institute of Hungarian Linguistics and Finno-Ugric Studies[17]
Institute of Hungarian Literature and Cultural Studies[18] Institute of Historical Studies[19]
Institute of Language Mediation[20] Institute of Library and Information Science[21]
Institute of Oriental Studies[22] Institute of Philosophy[23]
Institute of Romance Studies[24] Institute of Slavonic and Baltic Philology[25]
Institute for The Theory of Art and Media Studies[26] School of English and American Studies[27]

Organisation

The current leadership consists of 1 dean and 4 vice-deans.[28]

Faculty leadership
TitleName
DeanDávid Bartus[29]
Sub-deanIldikó Horn
Krisztina Horváth
Judit Bóna
Ildikó Horváth

Former Deans

Honorary doctors

The following people were awarded with Honorary title by the Faculty of Humanities.[30]

Research

Currently, there are twenty-four research centres at the department level, institution level, and faculty level.[31]

In 1998, Zoltán Dörnyei and Kata Csizér's article was published by Language Teaching Research. In their study on Language Learning motivation, they compiled a set of strategies to facilitate language teachers how to motivate learners.[32]

On April 18, 2010, Eötvös Loránd University was officially granted the status of research university. The Faculty of Humanities along with the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Law is the faculty that deals with scientific research activities. The Faculty of Humanities has always viewed scientific research and the education of future generations as highly important. Eötvös Loránd University was awarded the Social Renewal Operational Programme's research university bid called by the Hungarian National Development Agency (TÁMOP-4.2.1/B-09/1/KMR). The aim of the project was to improve the quality of higher education and foster university research. The project was implemented between June 1, 2010, and May 31, 2012, with a 3 billion forint grant from the government and the European Union.

On August 16, 2010, Dan Payne, from BBC, interviewed Károly Szerencsés from the Institute of History on the legacy of János Kádár.[33] The title of the article was "Hungary divided over Janos Kadar and his legacy".

Notable researchers
InstituteResearcher
Institute of Ancient and Classical StudiesLászló Kákosy
Institute of Art HistoryKatalin Keserü
Institute of East Asian StudiesMózes Csoma, Imre Hamar, Gábor Kósa, András Róna-Tas, Judit Vihar
Institute of Germanic StudiesKoloman Brenner
Institute 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 StudiesKatalin É. Kiss, Kinga Fabó, Géza Fodor
Institute of Library and Information ScienceTom Hubbard, György Sebestyén
Institute of Oriental StudiesZsuzsa Kakuk, Gyula Németh, Edit Tasnádi
Institute of PhilosophyBernhard Alexander, Géza Fodor, Ágnes Heller, Gyula Kornis, Ákos Pauler, József de Révay, József Szigeti
Institute of Romance StudiesKálmán Faluba, Béla Köpeczi, Alexandru Roman
Institute of Slavonic and Baltic PhilologyMária Bajzek Lukács, Nina Király, Jerzy Snopek
School of English and American StudiesZsófia 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
Prime Minister of Hungary, József Antall
Maria Sarungi Tsehai

Library
The library of the Faculty of Humanities

The Faculty has one main library, located in Trefort Garden,[34] 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.[35]

  • Bird view
    Bird view
  • Main building
    Main building

References
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  2. Borsodi, Csaba; Tüskés, Anna (2010). Az Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem Bölcsészettudományi Karának Története Képekben 1635–2010 (in Hungarian). Budapest: Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem. ISBN 978-963-284-169-4.
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  4. Moody, Oliver. "Vikings took a crystal clear route across the Atlantic". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved July 4, 2022.
  5. "Combative premier Orban sends a chill through Hungarian culture". Financial Times. September 22, 2018. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
  6. Berlin, Oliver Moody. "Orban's Hungary drives out university founded by George Soros". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved July 4, 2022.
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  11. "Institute of Archaeological Sciences | ELTE Faculty of Humanity". www.btk.elte.hu/en (in Hungarian). Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  12. "Institute of Arts Communication and Music | ELTE Faculty of Humanity". www.btk.elte.hu/en (in Hungarian). Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  13. "Institute of Art History | ELTE Faculty of Humanity". www.btk.elte.hu/en (in Hungarian). Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  14. "Institute of East Asian Studies | ELTE Faculty of Humanity". www.btk.elte.hu/en (in Hungarian). Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  15. "Institute of Ethnography and Folklore | ELTE Faculty of Humanity". www.btk.elte.hu/en (in Hungarian). Retrieved July 30, 2022.
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  19. "Institute of Historical Studies | ELTE Faculty of Humanity". www.btk.elte.hu/en (in Hungarian). Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  20. "Institute of Language Mediation | ELTE Faculty of Humanity". www.btk.elte.hu/en (in Hungarian). Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  21. "Institute of Library and Information Science | ELTE Faculty of Humanity". www.btk.elte.hu/en (in Hungarian). Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  22. "Institute of Oriental Studies | ELTE Faculty of Humanity". www.btk.elte.hu/en (in Hungarian). Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  23. "Institute of Philosophy | ELTE Faculty of Humanity". www.btk.elte.hu/en (in Hungarian). Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  24. "Institute of Romance Studies | ELTE Faculty of Humanity". www.btk.elte.hu/en (in Hungarian). Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  25. "Institute of Slavonic and Baltic Philology | ELTE Faculty of Humanity". www.btk.elte.hu/en (in Hungarian). Retrieved July 30, 2022.
  26. "Institute for The Theory of Art and Media Studies | ELTE Faculty of Humanity". www.btk.elte.hu/en (in Hungarian). Retrieved July 30, 2022.
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  29. "2021. Február 1-Töl Bartus Dávid A Bölcsészettudományi Kar Új Dékánja". btk.elte.hu. February 1, 2021. Retrieved April 14, 2022.
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