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- 23rd Sep 1882 (Creation)
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The Academy was founded in 1825 when Count István Széchenyi offered one year's income of his estate for the purposes of a Learned Society at a district session of the Diet in Pressburg (Pozsony, present Bratislava, seat of the Hungarian Parliament at the time), and his example was followed by other delegates. Its task was specified as the development of the Hungarian language and the study and propagation of the sciences and the arts in Hungarian. It received its current name in 1845.
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Letter sent from [Dr Frahnoi], Secretaire General, L'Academie Hongroise des Sciences on behalf of S. Duka, to Brian Houghton Hodgson to thank him for the return of two letters of Alexander Csoma de Koros (1784/8-1842, Hungarian philologist and Orientalist, author of the first Tibetan-English dictionary and grammar book). On reverse Hodgson has written "Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Oct 1882". Handwritten in French with printed header, 1 side, dated 23 September 1882