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Collegium Hungaricum Berlin
The Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (CHB) is a cultural institute in Berlin founded and maintained by the State of Hungary. From 2016 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade operates it (previously maintained by the Balassi Institute). The institute founded by Róbert Gragger in 1924 takes active part in the cultural life in Berlin and in general in Germany. It’s programs help to further integrational and interdisciplinary cooperation between Hungary and Germany.″

Foundation
The Collegium Hungaricum in Berlin, likewise in Rome and Wienna is based in a property owned by Hungary, located in the center of Berlin, in the Herz Palace. The CHB works closely with the Hungarian Institute of the University of Berlin. It’s main goal was to support talented Hungarian researchers who had been studying and researching in the capital city of Germany. Besides it’s main focus in the field of education, it was well known that the CHB was the center of German-Hungarian cultural relations (quoting from Schoen German ambassador’s letter of 1932 to the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs).

After the II. World War
In 1945 it’s building was almost completly destroyed (the new building is built on the same place). As an ancestor of the old Collegium Hungaricum, the House of Hungarian Culture opened it’s doors first in 1973 close to the Alexanderplatz in the Karl-Liebknecht Street (East-Berlin). The new institute was more focused on culture, than on science.

After 1989
In 1997 Hungary got back the old property under the Dorotheenstrasse 12. (today the new buildig is located there). The Hungarian House of Culture uses it’s original name after 2000. The new building was constructed after the plans of Peter Schweger a German achitect with transylvanian saxon predecessors.

Róbert Gragger
Róbert Gragger (1887-1926) was a philologist, a cultural diplomat, the director of the Hungarian Institute of the Humboldt Univerity of Berlin and director and founder of the CHB 1924. His name is also known in connection with the oldest poem written in Hungarian (Ómagyar Mária-siralom) as he was the one to discover it. Gragger also founded and edited the „Bibliographia Hungarica” in 1923, which was a collection of books published abroad concerning Hungary. The Gragger Institute – preserving the mentality of it’s denominator – aimes to support the the existance of hungarology in the everydays. In order to do that, they organise programs, events with the Faculty of Hungarology of the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, and other organisations.

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 * A Collegium Hungaricum Berlin honlapja