Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor founded 1782 AD


1782 AD founded

Emperor Joseph II establishes the Institutum Geometricum as part of the Faculty of Liberal Arts at the University of Buda. The Institutum, the direct predecessor of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, is the first in Europe to award engineering degrees to students of land surveying, river control, and road construction.

Prior to that

  • 1635 – Archbishop Péter Pázmány, primate of Hungary, founds the University of Nagyszombat
  • Late 18th century – The university moves to Buda and becomes the University of Buda.
  • 1735 – The "Berg-Schola," the world's first institute of technology, was founded in Selmecbánya, Kingdom of Hungary (today Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia) in 1735. Many members of the first teaching staff of BME arrived from Selmecbánya.
Budapest
Lattitude: 47.4925° N
Longitude: 19.0513° E
Region: Russia and Eastern Bloc
Russia and Eastern Bloc
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