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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Our series entitled „Mosaics from the heritage of ELTE” presents some of the key material cultural heritage of the Eötvös Loránd University. The object of the month is the candle from the funeral of Mór Jókai.

The inauguration ceremony took place on 28 May 2025, the innovative solution further enhances the range of library services.

The Research Room and its library and archive services will offer reduced opening hours from 2 June 2025 until the end of October 2025. During this period, services are available between 9:00 and 16:00 on weekdays. Thank you for your understanding.

In the framework of our book adoption programme, our conservator and old book librarian gave our adopter a detailed presentation of the supported volume.

Dr. Walter Baluja García, Minister of Higher Education of Cuba, and Dr. László Borhy, Rector of ELTE, President of the Hungarian Rectors' Conference, led a rectorial delegation from the island country to the ELTE University Library and Archives on 20 May 2025.

At the invitation of the Economic Sciences Workshop of the ELTE Márton Áron Dormitory for Advanced Studies, on May 22, 2025, Tibor Faragó-Szilvási and Tibor Móring, staff members of the Education and Research Support Department of the ELTE University Library and Archives, gave an online lecture entitled „Research Support with Modern Tools: Scientific Databases, Research Data, Reference Management”.

The Hungarian Academy of Sciences, of which many ELTE students and lecturers were members, will celebrate its 200th anniversary in 2025. Loránd Eötvös, the namesake of ELTE and a renowned physicist, was a member of the academy from 1873 and played a significant role in the development of the university and Hungarian scientific life. ELTE commemorated his life's work with an exhibition in 2019, the 100th anniversary of his death, the catalogue of which will be published in 2023.