Dr. Péter Balázs: Guide to the archives of Hungary (Budapest, 1976)

(Special Archives of State Organs and Social Organizations) - A Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Levéltára (Archives of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

SPECIAL ARCHIVES OF STATE ORGANS AND SOCIAL ORGANISATIONS A MAGYAR TUDOMANYOS AKADÉMIA LEVÉLTÁRA (ARCHIVES OF THE HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES) 1361 BUDAPEST, Roosevelt tér 9. (Pf. 7.) Tel. 113400 Head: Dr. László SZÓLLÓSY The formal establishment of the Archives of the Academy is marked by the decision No. 48/1963 of the Presidium of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (in the following: MTA) in September 1963. This date represented the closing of a period and the beginning of another. Since the starting of its activity (1831) the MTA always preserved its records in its own management, its Rules of 1833 devoted several paragraphs to the supervision of the archives and the nomination of an archivist. Between the two World Wars arrangements from an archival standpoint were made in the material. After World War II the archives of the Academy were taken over by the Manuscript Department of the Library of the MTA. 1949 brought the reorganization of the MTA; the Academy has become an institution having a national network of research institutes, really directing scientific life. This involved the building up of an apparatus and the quantitative growth of the archival material. In the tenth year of the reorganization the Academy had to decide, whether it should hand over the material in its registry to an archives of the state or place it in its own archives. With regard to tradition and the practice of other socialist countries the leadership of the Academy decided to keep the material in its own archives. It fitted in the Archives of the Academy to the organisational framework of the Library of the MTA as an independent department and it obliged the repository to the preservation and scientific treatment of the