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Schwartz Elemér to ALG, 1955 October 25

 Item — Box: CALG 4
Identifier: CALG 4/33.12

Dates

  • Creation: 1955 October 25

Language of Materials

In English, Hungarian, French, German, Italian, and Latin.

General

Letter. Elemér has heard the news from Dám Ince concerning ALG's dissaproval of the Hungarian Catholic Academy's practice, according to which membership is based on academic invitation instead of election. Yet he confidentially informs ALG that the very reason he proposed this form of membership acceptance, which was backed by the Cardinal and Head of the Roman Catholic Church in Hungary, József Mindeszenty, was ALG himself. ALG should have been member of both Hungarian academies already a long time ago, however, he was twice unelectable due to his religion and ideology. The election method in Hungary resulted in clannish vote, which in turn excluded accomplished scholars, such as ALG, from being members. To avoid this mistake and to get ALG in the Academy, which is now seated in Rome and Brussels, Elemér introduced a more just system: a small group of acadmic theoreticians of the related field decide who to invite and then who to accept. Hungarian

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