HUNGARIAN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY ELECTS PRESIDIUM

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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 143
• Publication Date: July 6, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Sociological - Public education
Biographic - Presidium of new society
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30 Apr 1953
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The recently founded Tarsadalom-es Termeazettudomanyi IsmeretterJeszto
Talsulat (Society for the Prapagation of Social and Natural Sciences) Lsee
00-W-2663) held its first general meeting on 29 April 1953 in the assembly
hall of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. A presidium consisting of the
following members was elected at the meeting:
Erzsebet Andics, First Deputy Minister of Higher Education and President
of the National Peace Council; Elemer Balogh, teacher at the political univer-
sity of the party; Nezso Bognar, academician and Kossuth Prize winner; Jozsef
Darvas, Minister of Education and President of the Hungarian League of Authors;
Mrs Lec David, teacher and Kossuth Priz:- winner; Lajos Elekes, Secretary-Gen-
eral of the Historical Society; Tibor Erdelyi-Gruz, Minister of Higher Educa-
tion; Ferenc Erdei, Minister of Agriculture.
Bela Fogarasi, academician and Kossuth Prize winner; Ferenc Fulop, Di-
rector of the National Historical Museum; Sandor Gaspar, Secretary of the
National Council of Trade Unions; Pal Gombas, vice-President of the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences; Bela Kelen, Secretary-General of the Hungarian-Soviet
Society; Istvan Kiraly, Kossuth Prize winner and university docent; Ferenc
Koch, academician and university professor; Kalman Lissak, corresponding mem-
ber of the academy; Erno Mihalyfi, Deputy Minister of Culture and President
of the National Association of Hungarian Journalists.
Erik Molnar, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Gyorgy Non, First Deputy Min-
ister of Culture; Gyorgy Osztrovszki, Acting Secretary-General of the Hungar-
ian Academy of Sciences; Dezso Pals, Kossuth Prize winner and academician;
Karoly Pater, Rector of the University of Agricultural Science; Istvan Ruszn-
yak, President of the Hungarian Academy Sciences; Kurt Sedlmayr, academi-
cian and Kossuth Prize winner; Jozsef Sc'tiandl, university professor, Director
of the Livestock Breeding Research Institute.
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Ferenc Szabo, composer and Kossuth Prize winner; Elemer Szadeczky-Kardoss
and Imre Toro, academicians and Kossuth Prize winners; Endre Valko, Secretary-
General of the Association of Technical and Scientific Societies; Jozeef Vero,
university professor, Director of the Research Institute for the Iron Industry;
and Laos Vegvari, Director of the Metropolitan Picture Gallery.
Elected to the society's Control Committee were Dezso Nemes, member of
the board of directors of the Historical Society; Imre Mathe, university pro-
fessor; and Adam Muttnyanszky, university professor and Kossuth Prize winner.
Rezso Bognar, Kossuth Prize winner, academician and chief speaker of the
meeting, said that it was the sacred duty of all Hungarian intellectuals to
participate in the work of the new society. According to Bogner, the society
will serve a dual purpose: it will acquaint the working masses with the latest
developments in art, science, and technology, and at the same time it will 're-
educate the intelligentsia by familiarizing it with the classical exponents of
Marxism.
Bogner recommended that the society should establish departments of phi-
losophy, political science, and fine arts, in addition to the existing depart-
ments of biology, agronomy, hygiene, geography, mathematics and astronomy,
chemistry and physics, technology, history, and literature. He concluded by
requesting the party to supervise and direct the work of the society.
Prominent among those who contributed to the discussion following Bognar's
speech were Imre Razso and Kalman Lissak; corresponding members of the academy;
Keroly Peter; Lajos Cseterki, Secretary of the National Council of Trade Unions;
Tibor Mendol, university professor and delegate of the Hungarian Geographic So-
ciety; Pal Fandi, Secretary of the Society of the History of Hungarian Litera-
ture; Endre Bereczky, Kossuth Prize winner and Dean of the Veszprem University
of Industrial Chemistry; Agoston Kollanyi, Director of the Magyar Hirado es
Dokumentum Filmgyar (Hungarian Newsreel and Documentary Film Factory); and Gabor
Ferenczi, mechanical engineer of the Wilhelm Pieck Vagon es Gepgyar (Wilhelm
Pieck Railroad Car and Machine Factory).
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