Inorganic and Analytical Department

In the first half of the last century, the development of industry increasingly required well-educated specialists in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, mechanical engineering and engineering sciences in general. The first educational institution of this kind in Hungary was the secondary level József Ipartanoda, founded in 1846. Today's BME emerged from this school. In the beginning, it was possible to obtain degrees in technical, economic and agricultural fields at Ipartanoda. Among the six starting departments was the Department of Chemistry, the first professor of which was appointed doctor Károly Nendtvich, assistant professor of the chemistry department of the University of Pest (1847)