DEVELOPMENT OF FORESTRY PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION IN HUNGARY DEVELOPMENT OF FORESTRY PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION IN HUNGARY

Abstract

In our presentation we are going to examine the 19th appearance of forestry professional education in Hungary focusing on the engineer training created in the beginning and the creation of lower forestry vocational schools.   An integral part of the historical development of the Hungarian professional education is the institutionalization of the Hungarian primary - and then secondary forestry education, in the creation of which the authors of the articles published through two decades, between 1862 and 1883 in the Forestry Journal founded in 1862 had imprescriptible merits, these authors exposed their thoughts using the awareness raising and influencing power of the press. The journal and then the successor National Forestry Association (1866), provided the possibility for experts speaking in favour of the development of forestry professional education, and as its result they stated that an independent state primary forester   school is needed to be set up. An integral part of the historical development of the Hungarian professional education is the institutionalization of the Hungarian primary - and then secondary forestry education, in the creation of which the authors of the articles published through two decades, between 1862 and 1883 in the Forestry Journal founded in 1862 had imprescriptible merits, these authors exposed their thoughts using the awareness raising and influencing power of the press.