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Legal content from the Library available on Hungaricana

Hungaricana Cultural Heritage Portal offers a unique collection of primary legal sources online, that could prove fundamental and indispensable for any research in legal history. The original hard copy versions are possessed by the Library of the Hungarian Parliament.

Published on - 2021-01-20 11:41:00
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Remembering the expulsion of German Hungarians from Hungary after World War II

Using the argument of collective guilt between 19 January 1946 and June 30 1948 cca. 200-220 thousand German Hungarians had been expelled from Hungary. Remembering the starting day of the expulsion (when the first train packed with Swabians left Budaörs for Germany) the Hungarian National Assembly declared that 19 January be the remembrance day for the expulsion of Germans from Hungary.

Published on - 2021-01-19 01:24:00
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A selection of our freshly acquired foreign titles – Political Science

The Library of Parliament places strong emphasis on the acquisition of timely and relevant foreign resources related to its main scope of collection, that is law, political science, history, international organizations and foreign parliaments. Below you may find a few summaries of books selected from this year's new arrivals in the field of political science.

Published on - 2021-01-13 03:20:00
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Brand new functions gone live within online library catalogue

In our latest article we try and offer some help with your search in our catalogue by exploiting some of the freshly implemented features of Primo discovery service.

Published on - 2021-01-12 03:06:00
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Works of renowned legal scholar now freely available online

From this year internationally acclaimed legal scholar, Gyula Moór's works are available online on Gateway to Hungarian Law, that is our digital collection of legal literature. On this occasion we offer a short overview of Gyula Moór's life and times that made him one of the most defining figures of legal philosophy.

Published on - 2021-01-07 03:33:00
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Sámuel Tessedik, evangelical pastor, teacher, agricultural reformer and publicist died 200 years ago

Sámuel Tessedik (1742-1820) – though of Slovak descent – had become one of the most remarkable figures of the Hungarian enlightenment, whose work was equally influenced by Rousseau's philosophy, the rationalism of the enlightenment and the practical religiousness of pietism.

Published on - 2020-12-28 10:09:00
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