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.
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]
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]
^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
^Orosz, István. "Imre Mikó – President of the Hungarian Historical Society (abstract)" (PDF). Transylvanian Museum Society. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
^"Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Hungarican Historical Society. Published on 2017-06-02". Library of the Hungarian Parliament. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
^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.
^"MTT Tanári Tagozat (Teacher's Section, HHS)" (in Hungarian). facebook. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
^"Prof. István Diószegi, PhD". First World War Centennial Committee. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
^"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.
Bibliography
Cservenka, Judit. ""Emlékezzünk régiekről!" – 150 éves a Magyar Történelmi Társulat (Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Hungarican Historical Society). Published on December 8, 2017" (in Hungarian). Felvidék ma. Archived from the original on March 23, 2018. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
Nagy, László (2009). "A Magyar Történelmi Társulat történetének forrásai (Sources of History of the HHS)" (PDF). Magyar Tudomány (in Hungarian). 170 (2): 160–168. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
External links
Media related to Hungarian Historical Society at Wikimedia Commons
Official website
"Magyar Történelmi Társulat (Hungarian Historical Society)" (in Hungarian). facebook. Archived from the original on 2019-04-26. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
"Participants at the Congress of the Hungarican Historical Society. Published on 1953-06-05" (PDF). CIA. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 23, 2017. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
"Participants at the Congress of the Hungarican Historical Society. Published on 1953-06-05". CIA Library. Archived from the original on January 22, 2017. Retrieved 2018-03-23.