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.
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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:
Organisation
The current leadership consists of 1 dean and 4 vice-deans.
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
Research
Currently, there are twenty-four research centres at the department level, institution level, and faculty level.
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
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.