Prof. Kurt Siehr receives honorary doctorate
02.07.2009
Prof. Dr. iur., Kurt Siehr M.C.L., former research fellow and since 2002 free research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, has been conferred an honorary doctorate from the Eötvös Loránd University Budapest (ELTE).The university is recognising with the award the close cooperation between Prof. Siehr and the university's law faculty. As early as 40 years ago, Prof. Sehr began his special relationship when Ferenc Mádl, the later president of Hungary, was a guest in Hamburg and at the Institute. Equally long-standing is his contact with Lajos Vékás, who later served as dean of the Eötvös-University. Over the course of the years the cooperative efforts grew more intensive with, for instance, lectures held in Budapest and conferences jointly sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Law and the Budapest university . Along with the rich and enduring academic exchange, the university honour is an acknowledgement of Prof. Siehr's research work in the field of private international law.
The Eötvös Loránd University Budapest is one of the oldest universities in Hungary, first undertaking the education of students in 1635. Today more than 30,000 students are enrolled at the university.