The seat of the Hungarian Royal Laboratory of Special Education and Psychology
Budapest, 8th district, Mosonyi str. 6 Mosonyi Street
The site of the Hungarian Royal Laboratory of Special Education and Psychology (6 Mosonyi Street, the corner of Festetich and Mosonyi Street). Today the Schulek Frigyes Bilingual Secondary Technical School for Engineering and Architecture is located here.
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The site of the Hungarian Royal Laboratory of Special Education and Psychology (6 Mosonyi Street, the corner of Festetich and Mosonyi Street). Today the Schulek Frigyes Bilingual Secondary Technical School for Engineering and Architecture is located here.
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This is what it looks like today
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THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS PLACE
In the Laboratory, research on psychology and special education was conducted. The experiments and developmental work conducted here created the scientific foundations of special education and the foundations of Hungarian experimental psychology.
During the 25 years of its operation, this Laboratory connected generations of doctors and special educators, representatives of various and continuously differentiating fields of research.
THE HISTORY OF THE PLACE
Pál Ranschburg’s second laboratory, which he led for 25 years, moved here after he was excluded from the Faculty of Medicine. Despite the successful work of the Psychophysiological Laboratory, a 1902 decision by the Faculty Committee of the Medical University disputed the legal grounds of its operation. This happened at the time when Professor Lafenauer, who was a supporter of the laboratory, died unexpectedly. After this, Ranschburg left his position as a clinical intern and his laboratory was closed.
The laboratory was forced to leave the clinic and become a private laboratory. However, with the help of Gyula Wlassics, Minister of Religion and Education, the laboratory found a place in a special education building at Mosonyi Street. Ranschburg could store there the instruments he had taken from the university and received a dark room overlooking the courtyard. At this time, only the first block of the building at the corner of Festetics and Mosonyi Streets was ready, the rest of the construction was still underway.
The second part of the building was finished in 1904; this was the site of the country’s first special education school led by Mátyás Éltes. At this time, the laboratory already consisted of several rooms (Ranschburg’s study, a storage room for the instruments, a lecture room for special education lectures and other events, as well as rooms suitable for research). Financing improved with the support of Minister Albert Apponyi, who, with a decree of nationalization in 1906, recognized the necessity of increasing financial support and freedom of research for the work at the institution. At the same time, the laboratory received the title of Hungarian Royal Laboratory of Special Education and Psychology.
On May 30th, 1991, the disciples of Ranschburg’s disciples, representing the successors of the laboratory founded by him as well as several professional associations, placed a memorial plaque on the wall to commemorate Pál Ranschburg.
Sources
Torda Ágnes (1992). Non omnis moriar Gyógypedagógiai Szemle 20 (1) 76-78.
http://epa.oszk.hu/03000/03047/00001/pdf/EPA03047_gyosze_1992_1_76-78.pdf