Hungarian Stamps

Eötvös Loránd University is 375 years old ␣ Eötvös Loránd University is Hungary’s oldest, longest continuously operating and largest university. It was founded in 1635 by the Archbishop of Esztergom, Cardinal Péter Pázmány, in the town of Nagyszombat (today Trnava in Slovakia), and its management was entrusted to the Jesuits. At first Philosophy and Theology were taught, and the study of Law was introduced in 1667. The university was entitled to award academic degrees. Its Faculty of Medicine was founded in 1769. In 1777 it was moved from Nagyszombat, first to Buda and then to Pest in 1784. Until 1844 the language of instruction was Latin. After the Compromise of 1867, intensive development started: new educational and clinical buildings, the University Library, and the central building were constructed, the number of departments grew and the University became Hungary’s most important academic centre. In 1921 the name the Royal Hungarian Pázmány Péter University was adopted. After 1945 evening classes began. In 1949 the Faculty of Science became an independent entity from the Faculty of Humanities, and then in 1950 the Faculty of Roman Catholic Religious Studies separated. The Faculty of Medicine became a university in its own right in early 1951. The university adopted a new name in 1950, the Eötvös Loránd University. Source: http://www.elte.hu/egyetemrol

The subject of the jubilee stamp is a detail of the tympanum of the building of the University’s Faculty of Humanities, and in the foreground the rector’s paedum, the sceptre symbolising the unity of the university, is shown. The first day cover features the coats of arms of the University and the jubilee logo, a portrait of Loránd Eötvös and, as background printing, the building of the Faculty of Humanities. The main motif of the special postmark is the number referring to the

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