A Brief Retrospection on Hungarian School Atlases

Abstract

The first part of this article is dedicated to the history of Hungarian school atlases to 1914. The publication of atlases for schools is dated to 1800, when professor Ézsáiás Budai created his ‘New School Atlas for elementary pupils’. For almost 90 years the school atlases were mostly translations and adaptations of foreign (e.g. German) atlases. In 1890, a talented cartographer, Manó Kogutowicz founded the Hungarian Geographical Institute, which produced school atlases for the different types of schools in Hungary. The professional quality of these school atlases was recognized by prizes won in international exhibitions. Kogutowicz laid the foundations of the current Hungarian school cartography: three of his school atlases are presented in more detail in the second part of this article, to give examples of how the pupils were introduced to the basic cartographic concepts as well as how different innovative solutions were used on the maps.

Keywords:

• School cartography
• school atlas
• Manó Kogutowicz
• Hungarian Geographical Institute

ORCID

István Klinghammer http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7900-6530

José Jesús Reyes Nuñez http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-8667

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José Jesús Reyes Nuñez

José Jesús Reyes Nunez is Associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. His research interests lie in cartography for children (teaching of cartographic concepts and map use in Elementary and Secondary Schools), digital and GIS cartography, Web cartography and geovisualization. Author of more than 20 articles in scientific publications and more than 50 papers in different events, he has collaborated as cartographer in more than 40 textbooks and atlases. He is responsible for the organization of the Barbara Petchenik Map Competition in Hungary from 1999, being President of the International Jury in 2005 and 2007. He was Chair of the ICA (International Cartographic Association) Commission on Cartography and Children from 2007 to 2015 and is currently Vice-Chair of the same Commission. The ICA awarded him with the Diploma for Outstanding Services to the ICA in 2015.