Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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The Hungarian Academy of Sciences (in short: HAS, in Hungarian: Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, MTA) is the most important (and prestigious) learned society of Hungary. Its seat is at the bank of the Danube in Budapest.
The history of the academy began in 1825, when Count István Széchenyi offered one year's income of his estate for the purposes of a Learned Society at a district session of the Diet in Pressburg (Pozsony, present Bratislava, seat of the Hungarian Parliament at the time), and his example was followed by other delegates. Its task was specified as the development of the Hungarian language and the study and propagation of the sciences and the arts in Hungarian. It received its current name in 1845. Its central building was inaugurated in 1865, in neo-Renaissance style.
Today it has eleven main sections:
- I. Linguistics and Literary Studies Section
- (a part of it is the Research Institute for Linguistics),
- II. Philosophy and Historical Studies Section,
- III. Mathematical Sciences Section,
- IV. Agricultural Sciences Section,
- V. Medical Sciences Section,
- VI. Technical Sciences Section,
- VII. Chemical Sciences Section,
- VIII. Biological Sciences Section,
- IX. Economics and Law Section,
- X. Earth Sciences Section,
- XI. Physical Sciences Section.
[edit] Presidents of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
| Gr. Teleki József | November 17, 1830 - February 15, 1855 |
| Gr. Dessewffy Emil | 1855. April 17, 1855 – January 10, 1866 |
| Br. Eötvös József | March 18, 1866 – February 2, 1871 |
| Gr. Lónyay Menyhért | May 17, 1871 – November 3, 1884 |
| Trefort Ágoston | May 28, 1855 – August 22, 1888 |
| Eötvös Loránd | May 3, 1889 – October 5, 1905 |
| Berzeviczy Albert | November 27, 1905 – March 22, 1936 |
| Joseph Habsburg | March 22, 1936 – October 1944 |
| Kornis Gyula | March 7, 1945 – October 29, 1945 |
| Moór Gyula | October 29, 1945 – July 24, 1946 |
| Kodály Zoltán | July 24, 1946 – November 29, 1949 |
| Rusznyák István | November 29, 1949 – February 5, 1970 |
| Erdey-Grúz Tibor | February 5, 1970 – August 16, 1976 |
| Szentágothai János | October 26, 1976 – May 6, 1977 |
| Szentágothai János | May 6, 1977 – May 10, 1985 |
| Berend T. Iván | May 10, 1985 – May 24, 1990 |
| Domokos Kosáry | May 24, 1990 – May 9, 1996 |
| Ferenc Glatz | May 9, 1996 – May 4, 2002 |
| Vizi E. Szilveszter | May 5, 2002 – May 6, 2008 |
| Pálinkás József | May 6, 2008 |
[edit] See also
- Brief history of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (in English)
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences (in Hungarian and in English)
- Picture of its central building -- additional picture
Coordinates: 47°30′3.88″N 19°2′47.4″E / 47.5010778°N 19.0465°E
