The Irodalomtörténet professional journal established in 1912 is the periodical of the ELTE University Faculty of Humanities, Literature and Cultural Sciences Institute, the Society of Hungarian Literary History and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, which is edited at the Literature and Cultural Sciences Institute of the ELTE University Faculty of Humanities and which has been published through Ráció Kiadó since 2007 in four issues per year. Over the last half century, the prestigious periodical has been focusing on researching the Hungarian literary history of the 19th and 20th centuries, whilst recently introducing the current world trends of literary theory and cultural sciences to domestic historical research.