Hungarian Historical Society

The Hungarian Historical Society (Hungarian: Magyar Történelmi Társulat) is a learned society in Hungary, established in 1867. Its main responsibilities are the cultivation of the History of Hungary, dissemination of scientific findings, supporting research and development and representing the history of Hungary domestically and around the world.

Hungarian Historical Society
The seal and the motto of the Hungarian Historical Society
Motto"Emlékezzünk régiekről!″ (Remember the Old Ones)
Formation15 May 1867 (1867-05-15)
TypeHistorical society, GO, NGO, IGO
Headquarters1097 Tóth Kálmán str. 4. B building 512, 9th District of Budapest, Hungary
Coordinates47.4736°N 19.0727°E / 47.4736; 19.07274
Region served
Hungary
Official language
Hungarian
President
Róbert Hermann D.Sc
WebsiteEnglish version

Aims

The historical society's aims are:

  • Cultivating and promoting Hungarian historiography and history, organizing archival research and publishing national historical sources according to the unpolitical spirituality.
  • Spreading the recent study results of the Hungarian and – as far as possible – Universal History to reach the widest audience.
  • Its traditional aims are to become a large, informal "guild" to defend and represent the interests of the Hungarian historians, the educators of the history of Hungary and those people who are interested in history.[1]

Motto
The portrait of Count Imre Mikó, engraving of Zsigmond Pollák, 1876
"Emlékezzünk régiekről!″ (Remember the Old Ones)

History

The Hungarian Historical Society was established on May 15, 1867. The first session to establish the society was held on 2 February 1867 which was summoned by Arnold Ipolyi. Here they discussed the ways in which the society was formed and chose a committee to elaborate the basic rules. The first General Assembly was held with 300 members at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. On 13 June Imre Mikó was elected to the chairman of the society, and acted as a leader until 1876.[2]

21st century

The goal of the new millennium was that the society renewed the old traditions of conferences and congresses related to the various significant anniversaries, and it began monthly talk series about "Critical Issues in the national history" and the modernization of Periodical Századok. The society celebrated its 150th anniversary on May 15, 2017, and on this occasion a memorial conference was held at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on 6 December 2017.[3]

Organisation

The management and the Board of Directors is run by the General Assembly. The 20 members of the Board of Directors are elected by the ordinary Annual General Assembly meeting among regular members by secret ballot. The management is consisting of nine members: the chairperson, the five deputy chairpersons among whom one serves as an acting chairperson, the general secretary, the chairman of the Editorial Board of Periodical Századok and its editor-in-chief.[4]

Committees

Leadership

Chairpersons
Imre Mikó1867 – 1876
Mihály Horváth1877 – 1878
Arnold Ipolyi1878 – 1886
Gábor Kemény1887 – 1888
Antal Szécsen1888 – 1894
Géza Teleki1894 – 1913
Lajos Thallóczy1913 – 1916
Kuno von Klebelsberg1917 – 1932
Bálint Hóman1933 – 1944
Ferenc Eckhart1946 – 1949
Erzsébet Andics1949 – 1958
Erik Molnár1958 – 1966
Győző Ember1967 – 1975
Iván T. Berend1975 – 1982
László Makkai1982 – 1985
Sándor Balogh1986 – 1990
István Diószegi1991 – 1999[6]
Domokos Kosáry1999 – 2007
István Orosz2007 – 2015
Róbert Hermann2015 – present

Current Management
Róbert HermannChairman
Enikő CsukovitsGeneral Secretary
Attila PókActing (deputy) chairman
Enikő A. SajtiDeputy chairwoman
Magdolna BaráthDeputy chairwoman
László CsorbaDeputy chairman
László SzarkaDeputy chairman
Csaba FazekasDeputy General Secretary
Tibor FrankChairman of the Editorial Board of Periodical Századok

Types of the Publications of the Society

The society published several journals, periodicals and books from its establishment, 1867, e.g monographs, book series, sourcebooks, study books, biographies, mémoires, e.g. about significant Hungarian historical persons like Ladislaus IV of Hungary, Louis I of Hungary, Mary, Queen of Hungary, Matthias Corvinus, Tamás Bakócz, Sigismund Rákóczi, Péter Pázmány, Gabriel Bethlen, Miklós Zrínyi, George II Rákóczi, Emeric Thököly. In 1867 it established its most important periodical named Századok (Centuries) which has survived until now.[7]

References
  1. Ferenc Glatz (1961). "A Magyar Történelmi Társulat megalakulásának története (The Establishment of the Hungarian Historical Society)" (PDF). Századok (in Hungarian). 101: 233–267. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-03-19. Retrieved 2018-03-23. ISSN 0039-8098
  2. Orosz, István. "Imre Mikó – President of the Hungarian Historical Society (abstract)" (PDF). Transylvanian Museum Society. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
  3. "Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Hungarican Historical Society. Published on 2017-06-02". Library of the Hungarian Parliament. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
  4. Szőts, Zoltán Oszkár. "Tisztújítás a Magyar Történelmi Társulat élén (The election of the officials of the Hungarian Historical Society in 2015" (in Hungarian). újkor.hu. Archived from the original on 2018-03-25. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
  5. "MTT Tanári Tagozat (Teacher's Section, HHS)" (in Hungarian). facebook. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
  6. "Prof. István Diószegi, PhD". First World War Centennial Committee. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
  7. "A Magyar Történelmi Társulat fontosabb kiadványai 1867– (Selected Publications of HHS)" (PDF) (in Hungarian). Magyar Történelmi Társulat (Hungarian Historical Society/HHS). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-04-21. Retrieved 2018-03-23.

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