The Batthyány Society of Professors ( hu, Professzorok Batthyány Köre) is a Hungarian association of conservative

university professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professor ...

s founded in 1995 as a

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. Members are committed to what they call "traditional European social virtues" and they aim to "give intellectual stimulation to the Hungarian nation thereby contributing to its spiritual and

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". The society supports

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and politicians who "work for a 'civic' Hungary". The Society is affiliated with the Lajos Batthyány Foundation, an association aiming at the promotion of a "Hungarian political mentality committed to the Hungarian people and

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, focussing on

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and resting on common

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values and a democratic parliamentary governing".

Renowned members

As of March 2012 the Society has 213 members. Some of the more renowned are: *

Attila Borhidi Borhidi Attila (born 28 June 1932), is a Széchenyi Prize The Széchenyi Prize ( hu, Széchenyi-díj), named after István Széchenyi, is a prize given in Hungary by the state, replacing the former State Prize in 1990 in recognition of those who ...

- Biologist * Tamás Freund - Neurobiologist *

Balázs Gulyás Balázs Gulyás (born 26 June 1956) is a Hungarian neurobiologist. Personalia Gulyás is a Hungarian born neurobiologist based, since 1988, in Stockholm, working at the Karolinska Institute. Since 2013, while keeping his professorship at the K ...

- Neurobiologist *

József Hámori József Hámori (20 March 1932 – 1 May 2021) was a Hungarian biologist and politician, who served as Minister of Culture between 1998 and 1999. He was a member of the Batthyány Society of Professors. Publications Books *''Mi a neurobioló ...

- Politician and Biologist * Zsolt Liposits - Neuroendocrinologist *

András Prékopa András Prékopa (September 11, 1929 – September 18, 2016) was a Hungarian mathematician, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was one of the pioneers of stochastic programming and has been a major contributor to its literature. H ...

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* György Szabad - Politician and Historian *

Eörs Szathmáry Eörs Szathmáry (born 1959) is a Hungarian theoretical evolutionary biologist at the now-defunct Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study and at the Department of Plant Taxonomy and Ecology of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He i ...

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* Tivadar Tulassay - Physician * Tar Pál- businessman and diplomat pediatrician,

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of the

Semmelweis University Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (; hu, Semmelweis Ignác Fülöp ; 1 July 1818 – 13 August 1865) was a Hungarian physician and scientist, who was an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures. Described as the "saviour of mothers", he discovered that t ...

between 2003 and 2012

References

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