12 Facts About Ferenc Glatz

Ferenc Glatz was born on 2 April 1941 and is a Hungarian historian and academician.

Ferenc Glatz has served three terms as the president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Ferenc Glatz attended school in Csepel, Szigetszentmiklos and the Fay Secondary School in Ferencvaros and graduated from the Faculty of Humanities of the Eotvos Lorand University.

Ferenc Glatz has been a teacher at the Eotvos Lorand University of Sciences since 1976, is founder of the Department of Historical Museology and university professor.

Ferenc Glatz has been founding editor-in-chief of the historical political periodical Historia since 1979.

Ferenc Glatz is author of several books on history and historical theory and of hundreds of scientific studies and collections of essays in Hungarian and various foreign languages.

Ferenc Glatz was elected Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1993 and became President of the HAS in two subsequent periods between 1996 and 2002.

Ferenc Glatz regarded the Academy as a kind of think tank for the nation, which has to pay special attention to the newly emerging possibilities, advantages and turmoil that the nation has to cope with as a result of the political system change and Hungary's accession to the European Union.

Ferenc Glatz initiated and has led the National Strategic Research Programme, the results of which are among others the elaboration of an agricultural programme, strategies for water management, transport, language policy, information technology and environment, the analysis of the social and health care crisis roused by the political system change as well as the minority issue.

Ferenc Glatz is leader of the National Strategic Committee for Land and Water Management, which set the aim of modernising the Tisza and Danube Valley and the Homokhatsag region and of easing the social tensions of these regions.

Ferenc Glatz delivered speeches and presented proposals on several European forums in the field of human policy, culture and migration.

Ferenc Glatz participated in the monitoring process of the candidate countries for EU accession between 1994 and 98.