Eötvös Loránd University (, ELTE, also known as ''University of Budapest'') is a Hungarian

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university based in

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. Founded in 1635, ELTE is one of the largest and most prestigious public

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institutions in Hungary. The 28,000 students at ELTE are organized into nine faculties, and into research institutes located throughout Budapest and on the scenic banks of the

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. ELTE is affiliated with 5

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, as well as winners of the

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and Abel Prize, the latest of which was Abel Prize winner

László Lovász László Lovász (; born March 9, 1948) is a Hungarian mathematician and professor emeritus at Eötvös Loránd University, best known for his work in combinatorics, for which he was awarded the 2021 Abel Prize jointly with Avi Wigderson. He ...

in 2021. The predecessor of Eötvös Loránd University was founded in 1635 by

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(today

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, Slovakia) as a Catholic university for teaching theology and philosophy. In 1770, the university was transferred to

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. It was named Royal University of Pest until 1873, then University of Budapest until 1921, when it was renamed Royal Hungarian Pázmány Péter University after its founder Péter Pázmány. The Faculty of Science started its autonomous life in 1949, when The Faculty of Theology was separated from the university (now Pázmány Péter Catholic University). The university received its current name in 1950, after one of its most well-known physicists, Baron Loránd Eötvös.

History

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The university was founded in 1635 in Nagyszombat,

(today

, Slovakia) by the archbishop and theologian Péter Pázmány. Leadership was given over to the

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s. Initially the university only had two faculties (Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Theology). The Faculty of Law was added in 1667 and the Faculty of Medicine was started in 1769. After the dissolution of the Jesuit order, the university was moved to

(today part of

) in 1777 in accordance with the intention of the founder. The university moved to its final location in Pest (now also part of Budapest) in 1784. The language of education was

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until 1844, when Hungarian was introduced as an exclusive official language. Women have been allowed to enroll since 1895. Although several Hungarian universities opted for the new foundation model, Eötvös Loránd University remained state-owned. On 3 October 2023, a former student of the Faculty of Science,

Ferenc Krausz Ferenc Krausz (born 17 May 1962) is a Hungaro-Austrian physicist working in Attosecond physics, attosecond science. He is a director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and a professor of experimental physics at the Ludwig Maximilian U ...

was awarded

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Academic profile

ELTE is Hungary's largest scientific establishment with 118 PhD programs at 17 doctoral schools, and also offers 38 bachelor's programs, 96 master's programs, and over 50 degree programs in foreign languages. The course credits awarded are transferable to universities in Europe through the Bologna process. The nine faculties are (active faculties are in bold):

Timeline (1873–present)

Reputation and rankings

In the 2013-14

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, Eötvös Loránd University was ranked 551-600th. In the 2018, according to the Times Higher Education World University Ranking, ELTE ranked between 601 and 800.

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ranked the university among the best 301-400 between 2010 and 2014.

Campuses

ELTE has campuses at several places in Budapest: * Egyetem tér in the 5th district (

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, Faculty of Economics) * "Trefort Garden" () in the 8th district ( Faculty of Humanities) * Lágymányos campus in the 11th district ( Faculty of Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Informatics) * Buildings in Kazinczy utca ( 7th district) and Izabella utca ( 6th district) (Faculty of Education and Psychology) * Ecseri út in the 9th district (Bárczi Gusztáv Faculty of Special Needs Education) * Kiss János altábornagy utca in the 12th district (Faculty of Primary and Pre-School Education) Since 2017, ELTE has a campus named "Savaria University Centre" () in

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( in Latin).

Faculties

Library

The University Library and Archives was founded in 1561 and it is located in 6 Ferenciek tere. However, each faculty of the university has their own library located in different parts of Budapest. * Library of the Faculty of Humanities * Library of the Faculty of Law * Library of the Faculty of Science File:Egyetemi_Könyvtár1.JPG File:Egyetemi_Könyvtár2.JPG File:Egyetemi_Könyvtár3.JPG File:Egyetemi_Könyvtár4.JPG The library of Medieval Studies of the Central European University was located in the building of ELTE's Faculty of Humanities.

Notable alumni

Nobel Prize laureates: * Lénárd Fülöp, Nobel Prize for Physics (1905) *

Albert Szent-Györgyi Albert Imre Szent-Györgyi de Rapoltu Mare, Nagyrápolt (; September 16, 1893 – October 22, 1986) was a Hungarian biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with first isolating vitamin C and disc ...

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for the discovery of Vitamin C (1937) * Hevesy György,

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(1943) * Békésy György,

(1961) * Harsányi János,

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(1994) *

(2023) File:Phillipp Lenard in 1900.jpg, Fülöp Lénárd, physicist File:Albert Szent-Györgyi2.jpg,

, biochemist File:George de Hevesy.jpg, Hevesy György, chemist File:Georg von Békésy nobel.jpg, Békésy György, biophysicist File:Ferenc Krausz (cropped).jpg, Krausz Ferenc, physicist Other notable alumni: * Faculty of Humanities *

* Faculty of Science

Sport

The Eötvös Loránd University has its own sport club, Budapesti Egyetemi Atlétikai Club (English: Budapest University Athletic Club). The biggest achievement of the association football department of the club was qualifying for the 1924-25 Nemzeti Bajnokság I season. However, in the subsequent season ( 1925-26 Nemzeti Bajnokság I) the club were relegated to the Nemzeti Bajnokság II and has never been able to qualify to the top flight ever since.
https://www.beac.hu/

References

External links

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Information brochure (2012)
(48 pages) * (282 pages) {{DEFAULTSORT:Eotvos Lorand University 1635 establishments in the Habsburg monarchy 17th-century establishments in Hungary Educational institutions established in the 1630s Public universities Universities and colleges in Hungary Universities in Budapest