Eötvös Loránd University

Eötvös Loránd University, abbreviated ELTE and also called the University of Budapest, is a public research university in Budapest, Hungary. Founded in 1635, it is the longest continuously operating university in the country. Its predecessor was set up by Cardinal Péter Pázmány in Nagyszombat, today Trnava in Slovakia, as a Catholic university teaching theology and philosophy, and it moved to Buda and later Pest in 1770. It was the Royal University of Pest until 1873, the University of Budapest until 1921, and then bore Pázmány's name until 1950, when it took its present name in honour of the physicist Baron Loránd Eötvös. Almost 30 thousand students study in nine faculties and in research institutes across Budapest.