# Hungarian Historical Society

The Hungarian Historical Society (Hungarian: Magyar Történelmi Társulat) is a learned society in Hungary, established in 1867. Its main responsibilities are the cultivation of the History of Hungary, dissemination of scientific findings, supporting research and development and representing the history of Hungary domestically and around the world.

## Aims

The historical society's aims are:
* Cultivating and promoting Hungarian historiography and history, organizing archival research and publishing national historical sources according to the unpolitical spirituality.
* Spreading the recent study results of the Hungarian and – as far as possible – Universal History to reach the widest audience.
* Its traditional aims are to become a large, informal "guild" to defend and represent the interests of the Hungarian historians, the educators of the history of Hungary and those people who are interested in history.

## Motto

    "Emlékezzünk régiekről!″ (Remember the Old Ones)

## History

The Hungarian Historical Society was established on May 15, 1867. The first session to establish the society was held on 2 February 1867 which was summoned by Arnold Ipolyi. Here they discussed the ways in which the society was formed and chose a committee to elaborate the basic rules. The first General Assembly was held with 300 members at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. On 13 June Imre Mikó was elected to the chairman of the society, and acted as a leader until 1876.

## 21st century

The goal of the new millennium was that the society renewed the old traditions of conferences and congresses related to the various significant anniversaries, and it began monthly talk series about "Critical Issues in the national history" and the modernization of Periodical Századok. The society celebrated its 150th anniversary on May 15, 2017, and on this occasion a memorial conference was held at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on 6 December 2017.

## Organisation

The management and the Board of Directors is run by the General Assembly. The 20 members of the Board of Directors are elected by the ordinary Annual General Assembly meeting among regular members by secret ballot. The management is consisting of nine members: the chairperson, the five deputy chairpersons among whom one serves as an acting chairperson, the general secretary, the chairman of the Editorial Board of Periodical Századok and its editor-in-chief.

## Committees

* Regional committees: Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Committee, Southern Great Plain Committee, Southern Transdanubia Committee, Hajdú-Bihar County Committee, Heves County Committee, Eastern Transdanubia Committee, Western Transdanubia Committee, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County Committee.
* Specialized sections: Information history Section, Doctorandus Section, László Vekerdy Section.
* Professional committees (sections): Church history Section, Environmental history Section, Women's history Section, Teacher's Section.

## Leadership
### Chairpersons

| Imre Mikó | 1867 – 1876 |
| Mihály Horváth | 1877 – 1878 |
| Arnold Ipolyi | 1878 – 1886 |
| Gábor Kemény | 1887 – 1888 |
| Antal Szécsen | 1888 – 1894 |
| Géza Teleki | 1894 – 1913 |
| Lajos Thallóczy | 1913 – 1916 |
| Kuno von Klebelsberg | 1917 – 1932 |
| Bálint Hóman | 1933 – 1944 |
| Ferenc Eckhart | 1946 – 1949 |
| Erzsébet Andics | 1949 – 1958 |
| Erik Molnár | 1958 – 1966 |
| Győző Ember | 1967 – 1975 |
| Iván T. Berend | 1975 – 1982 |
| László Makkai | 1982 – 1985 |
| Sándor Balogh | 1986 – 1990 |
| István Diószegi | 1991 – 1999 |
| Domokos Kosáry | 1999 – 2007 |
| István Orosz | 2007 – 2015 |
| Róbert Hermann | 2015 – present |

### Current Management

| Róbert Hermann | Chairman |
| Enikő Csukovits | General Secretary |
| Attila Pók | Acting (deputy) chairman |
| Enikő A. Sajti | Deputy chairwoman |
| Magdolna Baráth | Deputy chairwoman |
| László Csorba | Deputy chairman |
| László Szarka | Deputy chairman |
| Csaba Fazekas | Deputy General Secretary |
| Tibor Frank | Chairman of the Editorial Board of Periodical Századok |

## Types of the Publications of the Society

The society published several journals, periodicals and books from its establishment, 1867, e.g monographs, book series, sourcebooks, study books, biographies, mémoires, e.g. about significant Hungarian historical persons like Ladislaus IV of Hungary, Louis I of Hungary, Mary, Queen of Hungary, Matthias Corvinus, Tamás Bakócz, Sigismund Rákóczi, Péter Pázmány, Gabriel Bethlen, Miklós Zrínyi, George II Rákóczi, Emeric Thököly. In 1867 it established its most important periodical named Századok (Centuries) which has survived until now.