The Hungarian Academy of Sciences is Hungary's foremost and most prestigious learned society. Its headquarters are located along the banks of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akad
The seat of the academy on the bank of the Danube in Budapest
László Lovász, the president of the academy till 2020. Previously he served as the president of International Mathematical Union.
Count István Széchenyi offers one year's income of his estate for the purposes of a learned society.
József Eötvös
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Baron József Eötvös de Vásárosnamény was a Hungarian writer and statesman, the son of Ignác baron Eötvös de Vásárosnamény and Anna von Lilien, who stemmed from an Erbsälzer family of Werl in Germany.
Portrait by Miklós Barabás (1845)
Steel engraving after a drawing by Miklós Barabás (1841)