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THE recent celebration of the tercentenary of the X Royal Hungarian Peter Pazmany University of Budapest was worthy of a people that has played a great part in the intellectual and political life of Central Europe. The Hungarian nation began its corporate life in 896 when the Magyars entered the country from the plains of southern Russia and the slopes of the Carpathian mountains. In the fourteenth century, and again in the fifteenth century, universities were founded, but they lasted only a comparatively short time and none survived more than a few years after the disastrous Turkish victory in 1526. In 1635, when the greater part of Hungary was still under Turkish rule, Peter Pazmany, Archbishop of Gran (Esztergom) and later Cardinal, Prince Primate, founded a new university at Nagyszombat; more than a hundred years later it was transferred to Buda and in 1783 to Pest. The two cities Buda and Pest were united in 1872. Since 1922 the University has been known as the Royal Hungarian Peter Pazmany University of Budapest. This leading university of Hungary has now more than 5,000 students: its success is a remarkable demonstration of the intellectual aspirations and the national spirit of a nation which was deprived by the Treaty of Versailles of the greater part of its territory.
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Tercentenary of the University of Budapest. Nature 136, 729–730 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136729a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136729a0