Technikatörténeti szemle 23. (1997-98)

TANULMÁNYOK - Vámos Éva Katalin: Women’s Opportunities of Studying and Practising Engineering in Hungary from 1895 to 1968 (On the example of Budapest Technical University and its women students)

Notes and references 1 Vámos, Éva: On Womens's University Studies at the End of the 19th Century with Special Regard to Hungary. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of the History of Science. B. Symposia. Bucharest, Romania, p. 290-296. - Archives of the Technical University Budapest, Unit 3/c. Rectorate of the Royal József Technical University, from the academic year 1871 /72; Unit 16. No. 517. academic year 1896/97. - Vámos, Eva Katalin: Women's Participation in the Work of Scientific Societies in the 19

th Century in Hungary. International Conference on the Role of Women in the History of Science, Technology and Medi' cine in the 19th and 20th C, Veszprém, 1983. Proc. pp. 165-175. 2 Az Újság, December 25. 1906. p. 65-68. 3 E. g. in 1908, the rector of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Straßburg inquired in a letter about the regulations of women's university studiesTn Hungary. Archives of the Technical University Budapest: Rectorate of the Royal József Technical University, Documents 1871-1934. Unit 29, Item 80. 4 The first immediate predecessor of the Technical University was the Institutum Geometrico-Hydrotechnicum. This was part of the Faculty of Arts of Buda University of Sciences from 1782 to 1850. The striving for an independent institution of higher technical education was strong in the Hungarian part of the Hapsburg empire in the first half of the 19th century. However, these aspirations could be put into practice only as late as in the second half of the century. In 1846 the József Industrial School was founded. In 1856 it merged with the Institutum Geometrico-Hydrotechnicum to be raised to the rank of university. See: Zelovich, Kornél: A m.kir. József Műegyetem és a hazai technikai felsőoktatás története. (History of the Royal Hungarian József Technical University and Domestic Engineering Education.) Budapest, Pátria, 1922. - Szögi, László: Mérnökképző Intézet a Bölcsészkaron (Engineering Institute at the Faculty of Arts). BME Központi Könyvtár, Budapest, 1980. - Szabadváry, Ferenc (Ed.): A Budapesti Műszaki Egyetem 200 éve 1782-1982. (200 Years of Budapest Technical University. 1782-1982). BME, Budapest, 1982. 5 m 1949 a University of the Heavy Industry was founded in Miskolc (North-East Hungary) and in 1951 a University of the Chemical Industry in Veszprém (Transdanubia). A Technical University of Transportation was brought into being shortly afterwards. Budapest Technical University itself was split into two parts and an independent Technical University of Building and Transport Engineering started operation as well. It returned to the original Budapest Technical University in 1967. See: Kiss, Márton: Budapest Műszaki Egyetem (Budapest Technical University) and Szögi, László: A nemzet kertjének nevelő oskoláia - A magyar felsőoktatás rövid története. (Educational Schools Of the Nation's Garden - Short History of Hungarian University and College Education). In: Szögi, László (Ed.): Hat évszázad magyar egyetemei és főiskolái. (Hungarian Universities and Colleges of six centuries.) Művelődési és Közoktatási Minisztérium, Budapest, 1994. p. 104-115 and 10-69. All the 9 important technical colleges were equally opened after World War II. 6 Vámos, Éva: Women and scientific recognition (between 1895 and 1930 in Hungary). In: Women in Science: Options & Access. International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science - Commission on Women in Science, Technology and Medicine. (Papers presented at the XVIIth Intern. Congress of History of Science, Berkeley, 1985). p. 228-229. 7

Bobula, Ida: Nők az egyetemen. (Women at Universities.) Új Élet. 1923. June 12. 8 Héberger, Károly (Ed.): A Műegyetem története 1782-1967. (History of the Technical University 1782-1967), Budapest, 1979. Vol. IV. p. 824-827. (Manuscript in the Hungarian Museum for Science and Technology and in the Central Library of Budapest Technical University). 9 Efforts to achieve the status of guest student for women were less accentuated in Hungary than, e.g. in Austria. (In Vienna Mathilde Hübner was allowed to attend lectures at the Technical College in 1909.) In: Mikoletzky, Juliane, Georgeacopol-Winischhofer, Ute and Pohl, Margit: "Dem Zuge der Zeit entsprechend..." Zur Geschichte des Frauenstudiums in Österreich am Beispiel der Technischen Universität Wien, Wien, 1997. (Schriftenreihe des Universitätsarchivs der Technischen Universität Wien, Bd 1.).