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The ELTE Faculty of Humanities is the largest of the eight faculties of Eötvös Loránd University (Hungarian: Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem), the longest-running and most populous university in Hungary.

The ELTE Faculty of Humanities was founded in 1635, the same time as the university itself, and has been operating ever since. Of the approximately 25, 000 students that attend ELTE, 10, 000 are part of the Faculty of Humanities.

The Faculty aims at teaching subjects that deal with the development and evolution of human culture in detail. Within its fifteen institutes students can choose from among fifty-eight BA and fifty-two MA courses, or thirty MA teacher training courses; and in addition, six doctoral schools.

History
The predecessor of ELTE and its Faculty of Humanities was founded by Péter Pázmány, cardinal and theologian, on the 13th of November 1635, in Nagyszombat (today, Trnava in Slovakia). Since at the time most of the country was still under Ottoman rule, including the capital, Budapest, the location of the university seems to have been chosen out of necessity; in the establishing charter of the university Pázmány does allude to this. It was a Jesuit university and in the beginning it had 2 faculties, of which the Faculty of Humanities was the first one to be functioning and to admit students. Up until the 1770s, when it came under state control and was moved to the Royal Castle of Buda with the rest of the university, the Faculty offered three main courses: logics (logica), physics (physica) and metaphysics (metaphysici). The role of the Faculty was to prepare students for more advanced theological studies.

The Faculty and the rest of the university relocated to the city of Pest in 1784. From the very beginning, up until 1844, which was around the time that reforms fueled by nationalistic considerations took place, the official language of instruction was Latin. From 1844 onwards, Hungarian became the official language, although this did not mean that everything had to be or was actually taught in Hungarian. Philosophy, physics, mathematics, architecture and hydraulic engineering lectures were held in Latin, while theology, Hungarian literature and grammar, natural history, agricultural science and history were taught in Hungarian.

In 1850 the Faculty of Humanities was completely restructured, then in 1911 it acquired the former building of the technical university (Múzeum krt. 6-8) in today's Józsefváros. A number of new buildings were erected for faculty purposes in what is now the Trefort Garden.

One of the first major change after the Second World War took place in 1949 with the secession of the departments of natural history, and the foundation of an independent Faculty of Science. Following the Soviet model, the Faculty was further divided into the Faculty of History and the Faculty of Languages and Literatures in the 1950s. The students and teachers of both faculties took a part in the organisation of the revolution of 1956, and later in the armed struggle. The two faculties decided to reunite in December 1956, a step legitimised by official government consent in 1957. The Faculty of Humanities started its relocation to the original campus in the 1990s, where it now functions with 16 institutes and 8000 students as the largest faculty of Hungarian higher education.

Organization
Currently, Dr. Gábor Sonkoly is in charge of the faculty's administration. The faculty offers 47 Bachelor programs, 61 Master programs and 73 PhD programs of 4 doctoral schools (Literary Studies, Linguistics, History and Philosophy). The faculty of Humanities teaches 62 languages and their respective cultures, making it one of the first-rate institutions in Hungary. As Eötvös Loránd University is affiliated with international programs like the Utrecht Network and European University Association, the faculty of Humanities receive a wide amount of international students from 30 partner countries, covering the 85% of Erasmus+ country network

Places
The Trefort Garden surrounds the buildings of Faculty of Humanities which were built between 1880 and 1883 based on the Imre Steindl and Wéber Antal’s building planning. The buildings and garden were built in Neo-Renaissance style, which is a group of 19th-century architectural revival styles. The Garden was named after Ágoston Trefort, who reformed the education system and supported the prosperity of arts in education in the 19th century and whose statue can be found in the Garden. In the centre of the Campus is the famous Gólyavár Building, which was originally the building for freshmen, but it also had several significant historical roles as well.

Global ranking
According to QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020: Arts and Humanities published by Quacquarelli Symonds, ELTE Faculty of Humanities got the 371st place out of all faculties of Arts and Humanities around the world, tying with five other institutions, which include the University of Kansas and the National University of Córdoba.

Previously, in the company’s QS World University Rankings by Subject 2017, the faculty ended up placing in the range of 401-450.

According to "Top Universities" by September of 2020 ELTE Faculty of Humanities got the 601st place out of global universities ranking.

Hungarian ranking
In the 2020 ranking of the Hungarian economic and political weekly, Heti Világgazdaság (HVG), which listed Hungarian faculties of humanities, ELTE BTK was ranked second based on students’ excellence (same as in 2019), and third based on teachers’ excellence (placed second in 2019).

Famous alumni
Since the faculty has a history reaching back to 1635, it has had many famous and honourable alumni over the centuries.


 * Wilhelm Bacher, rabbi, orientalist, and linguist
 * Zoltán Dörnyei, psycholinguist
 * András Kenessei, art historian, writer, and journalist
 * Judit Kormos, linguist
 * András Kornai, mathematical linguist
 * László Krasznahorkai, novelist and screenwriter
 * Péter Medgyes, applied linguist and language pedagogist
 * Ádám Nádasdy, linguist and poet
 * Stephen Ullmann, linguist
 * György Mihály Vajda, philosopher
 * György Lukács, Hungarian neo-Marxist philosopher of Jewish origin, literary critic.
 * Ion Agârbiceanu, Romanian writer, journalist, parliamentarian and clergyman of the Romanian Catholic Church.
 * József Balassa, Hungarian linguist, philologist and teacher.
 * Béla Balázs, Hungarian writer, poet, playwright, screenwriter, film theorist; doctor of philosophical science.
 * Gábor Bereczki, Hungarian scientist, linguist, specialist in the field of Finno-Ugric studies, translator, teacher