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Magyar Királyi Ferenc József Tudományegyetem | |
 Franz Joseph University, c.1900 | |
Former names | Royal Hungarian University of Kolozsvár Magyar Királyi Kolozsvári Tudományegyetem |
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| Active | 1872–1945 |
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Royal Hungarian Franz Joseph University (Hungarian: Magyar Királyi Ferenc József Tudományegyetem) was the second modern university in the Hungarian realm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Founded in 1872, its seat was initially in Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca). After World War I, it first moved to Budapest for a brief period (1919–21), and later found temporary housing in Szeged (1921–40). In 1940, after the Second Vienna Award ceded Northern Transylvania, including Kolozsvár to Hungary, the university was relocated to its old home. By the end of the World War II the territory went back to Romania, subsequently the Romanian authorities replaced the Franz Joseph University with a new Hungarian language institution and the university ceased its operation without legal successor in 1945. Its faculties and buildings later became part of the University of Szeged, Babeș-Bolyai University, and University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Târgu Mureș.
The Franz Joseph University was an important center of science and education in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. It was probably best known for its leading role in mathematics, earning the name "Göttingen of the Monarchy". The university attracted mathematicians such as Gyula Farkas, Lipót Fejér, Alfréd Haar, Frigyes Riesz, Ludwig Schlesinger, Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy and Gyula Vályi.[1]