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• THE ITALIAN CONNECTIONS OF THE SUMMER UNIVERSITY IN KESZTHELY OF THE ERZSÉBET UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES, 1934-1936

  71-99

  Tímea Farkis

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  62

  The study presents the first two years of the summer university of the Elizabeth University of Pécs in Keszthely and the holiday home built for the students. The Italianist professor Jenő Kastner's relations with Italy are analyzed, highlighting their significance in the organization of the summer university courses. It provides an overview of the Italian-Hungarian diplomatic and cultural agreements, which fundamentally determined the concept of the courses and lectures of the Keszthely summer university, as well as the milestones of close cooperation with Italy. With the help of archival sources, we reconstruct the activities of Dr. Jenő Kastner, the head of the Italian Department of the Elizabeth University of Pécs, in Pécs, and the circumstances of the establishment of the holiday home.

• Dr. krassai lovag Kerpely Kálmán (1864–1940) – A magyar növénytermesztés modernizációjának úttörője

  28-43

  Gábor Szász

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  202

  DR. KRASSAI LOVAG KERPELY KÁLMÁN (1864–1940) PIONEER OF THE MODERNISATION OF HUNGARIAN CROP PRODUCTION. Agriculture in Hungary – more speciically crop production – dates back to the Roman 17th century. Hungarian agriculture is rooted in Western European agriculture. Its development was started in the Age of Enlightenment, during which the conditions of the modernisation of agriculture were established in the Carpathian basin in the 18th–19th century. Social transformation, the reorganisation of possessions and the establishment of the system of agricultural higher education made it possible to modernise the agricultural sector. In the 1800s, agricultural higher education institutes were esablished in Keszthely and
  Magyaróvár under modest circumstances. In 1867, a state-run institution was established in Debrecen where education and research were launched with well prepared teachers who had international knowledge. At the end of the century, Kerpely Kálmán started to work in Debrecen and crop production research was launched with the central topic of analysing the harmonious correlations of the nutrient and water supply of the produced crops. he hundred-year-old results and establishments of this research direction provide a basis for the development activity of subsequent years and the research of its basic correlations. hese scientiic activities are still timely today.

• THOUGHTS ON THE BEGINNINGS, ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESENTATION OF THEIR IRON DIPLOMA

  198-203

  József Schalbert

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  The Georgikon, founded in 1797 in Keszthely by the Festetics family, the agricultural college established in 1818 in Mosonmagyaróvár by Prince Albert Casimir of Saxony-Teschen, and later the one founded in 1868 in Pallag by the city of Debrecen, all played a significant role in advancing Hungarian agriculture throughout the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. These academies were shut down in 1948–1949, following the land reform of 1945. However, with the reorganization of socialist agriculture and the push for collectivization, it became necessary to restart agricultural education. This led to Presidential Council Decree No. 9 in 1953, which authorized the reestablishment of regional agricultural academies. The process was swift, and the academy in Debrecen was the first to reopen − ironically turning the last into the first. Acting on the instructions of then-Minister of Agriculture Ferenc Erdei, a committee was set up to determine whether the half-finished agricultural secondary school in Pallag − damaged during the war − or the one on Böszörményi Road would be more suitable for reopening the academy. In hindsight, the committee’s decision to choose the Böszörményi Road location proved wise, as it offered vast development potential. This potential was successfully realized by István Bencsik, who − based on Decree No. 35 − oversaw the transformation of the institution into a university-level college. Thanks to prioritized government investment, the new institution became a true jewel of Hungarian agricultural education.

• A debreceni agrárfelsőoktatás első 150 éve

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  István Komlósi

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  361

  The first 150 years of Agricultural Tertiary Education in Debrecen. The Georgikon in Keszthely was founded in 1797 as the first one in the line of subsequent agricultural tertiary institutions and was followed by one in Magyaróvár in 1818. It was fifty years later – that is one and a half centuries ago – that the National Higher Institution of Agriculture opened its gates in Debrecen. The speech that opened the first academic year at the new agricultural higher school was delivered by the then director Péter Papi Balogh and it has been preserved for later generations. On 5 September 2018, a hundred and fifty years later, Dean István Komlósi had the honour to recall the first 150 years of agricultural tertiary education in Debrecen. His speech is published in full length by Gerundium, the journal devoted to papers on the history of the University of Debrecen.