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The Hungarian Academy of Sciences will celebrate its 200th anniversary in 2025. Among its members are many distinguished students and teachers who have left their mark not only on the Academy but also on the history of our institution. Dezső Pais (1886–1973) linguist, university professor was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 1941.

The ELTE–NFI University Film Club continues the series of screenings and discussions. We welcome university citizens from all faculties of ELTE.

The ELTE–NFI University Film Club continues the series of screenings and discussions. We welcome university citizens from all faculties of ELTE.

Our series, titled “Mosaics from the Heritage of ELTE”, presents some of the outstanding cultural heritage of Eötvös Loránd University. The artwork of the month is the Chain of the rector.

On the occasion of Researchers' Night, on September 26, 2025 (Friday) at 6 p.m., Dr. Zsolt Győző Török will hold an unusual book launch for his volume „Kogutowicz – Atlas from Palmy Days of Peace”, published in June, in the Boardroom of the ELTE University Library and Archives.

Eötvös Loránd University is committed to supporting scientific research and education by providing access to a wide range of subscribed databases for its faculty members and students.

On July 23, 2025, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó announced that the New York District Attorney's Office had returned a priceless publication written in 1675 to Hungary, which had previously been stolen from Budapest.

At the second quarterly report of the K21 Quality Coordination Committee 2025, the leaders of the working groups reported on the results of the past quarter, ongoing work and changes.

We would like to inform our readers that, in line with the summer closure of the ELTE libraries, the ELTE library system will be shut down for maintenance from July 28 to approximately August 24, 2025.

In 2025, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences celebrates its 200th anniversary, honoring members like physicist Zoltán Bay, who made lasting contributions to both the Academy and scientific progress. Bay pioneered key technologies such as atomic counting and lunar radar detection, and played a role in the resistance during World War II, earning high honors. His innovations in measurement science laid the groundwork for advancements in space exploration and GPS, and his legacy is preserved in university archives.

Our series, titled “Mosaics from the Heritage of ELTE”, presents some of the outstanding cultural heritage of Eötvös Loránd University. The artwork of the month is the furniture of Gábor Devecseri.

The Hungarian feature film Cold Days will be screened in the framework of the ELTE Carpathian Basin Hungarian Summer University. In addition to the participants of the Summer University, the event is open to all ELTE citizens.

Between the 28th of July and the 31st of August 2025, our library will be closed.

Our special collections are temporarily unavailable. Thank you for your kind understanding!

The ELTE University Library and Archives will be closed on 28 June 2025 (Saturday) due to technical reasons.

According to our tradition, this year we joined the Night of Museums series of events, which included craft activities, concerts, film screenings, guided tours, restoration, fire enamel and calligraphy workshops, as well as a Mór Jókai Memorial Exhibition.

Krisztina Tóth's study „Archive on the Edge of the City” was published in the 2025/1 issue of the Archives Review, which presents the operation of the archive site at Maglódi út 8 between 2005 and 2024, its infrastructural and professional development, and the history of the building.

The Hungarian Academy of Sciences will celebrate its 200th anniversary in 2025, to which ELTE is also associated with several scientists and teachers. A prominent example is Lipót Fejér, the outstanding mathematician who gained international recognition for his research on Fourier series and who was elected a full member of the Academy in 1930. His life story – from his roots in Pécs, through studies in Budapest and Berlin, to his American lecture tour – is still a treasure in the ELTE archives.

The main goal of the ELTE Heritage Coordination is to preserve the cultural heritage of the university, which was supported by the purchase of special equipment and storage for eight organizational units in 2024. The purchases included acid-free boxes, archiving supplies, and protective equipment for the preservation of manuscripts, books, photographs, and other valuable documents. In addition to the support of the National Cultural Fund, some pieces of the University History Collection, belonging to old university uniforms, were also restored.

Due to the Night of Museums, the library services of the ELTE University Library and Archives will be inaccessible on Saturday, on the 21st of June 2025. Everyone is welcome to join our programmes starting at 15.00.