In the history of domestic agricultural vocational education, 2018 has written itself to the history’s gold book with two significant anniversaries. Mosonmagyarovar celebrated the bicentenary of its birth and Debrecen celebrated its existence of a century and a half. The two higher education institutions were called to l
...ife by different aspects. While Ovar opened its gates to a private initiative, in Debrecen the local farmer society was the driving force to which was connected tightly to have the mother tongue education accepted by the Viennese court. The time proved afterwards that the education in Hungarian language did not go to the detriment of expertise at none of the institutions. It must be acknowledged that in the field of vocational training, Magyarovar was the one which gave the first large faculty of teachers but soon Debrecen outgrew itself to the acropolis of vocational training too. The Ministry of Agriculture solved the incidental differences of standards by switching teachers. Due to this, some professor-individualities had the chance to teach at both places. In our compilation– as a sample – we selected a few meaningful personalities with great authority who are claimed to have by both university faculties.
FROM THE HISTORY OF AGRICULTURAL HIGHER EDUCATION. his paper connects the two periods and places of Hungarian agricultural higher education. he link is the scientiic work of Árpád Hensch – professor of Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Mosonmagyaróvár at the end of the 19th century – which has a signiicant<
.../em> efect on the Hungarian economic higher education even nowadays. his signiicance is proven by the eforts since the 1960s in Debrecen evolved on the Department of Business Economics in the former University of Agricultural Sciences.