Position: Senior Research Fellow, Scientific Secretary

Department: Early Modern History

Address: 1097 Budapest, 4 Tóth Kálmán Street

Room: B.4.20.

Phone: +36 1 224-6700/4663

Email: 

FIELD OF RESEARCH

Church and social history of Hungary and Transylvania in the 17^th and 18^th centuries. The role of popular politics in the late Catholic confessionalization and early modern state-building through the study of parish communities and local self-government. Diplomatic relations between the Habsburg Monarchy and the Holy See.

WORKPLACES

2021–              Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Auxiliary Studies of History, assistant professor

2012–              HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of History

2011–2019      Hungarian Jesuit Archives, director

EDUCATION

2014                PhD, Eötvös Loránd University. Summa cum laude (100%), title: „Campus ad fidei catholicae inseminationem”. Catholic Renewal in the Diocese of Eger in the Last Third of the Seventeenth Century.

2008–2011      Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Humanities, Doctoral School of History, Early Modern Hungarian History Doctoral Programme

2005–2009      Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Humanities, Archive Studies (MA)

2003–2008      Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Humanities, History (MA)

RESEARCH PROJECTS

2019–2022      Bolyai János Research Grant of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Project title: Pope Innocent XII and the Liberation of Hungary from the Ottoman Rule (1691–1700)

RESEARCH GRANTS

2018    Kunó Klebelsberg Research Scholarship provided by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary (Florence and Rome, 2 months)

2017    Follow-Up Research Scholarship (Nachbetreuungsstipendium) by the Aktion Österreich-Ungarn (Vienna, 2 months)

2015    Kunó Klebelsberg Research Scholarship provided by the Balassi Institute (Rome, 2 months)

2015    Richard Plaschka Research Grant provided by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research (Vienna, 4 months)

2014    Collegium Hungaricum Research Scholarship provided by the Balassi Institute (Vienna, 2 months)

2013    Kunó Klebelsberg Research Scholarship provided by the Balassi Institute (Rome, 2 months)

2011–2012      Stipendienstiftung Research Scholarship provided by the Austrian Federal Government (Vienna, 4 months)

2011    Eötvös State Research Scholarship provided by the Balassi Institute (Rome, 2 months)

2010    Ernst Mach Research Grant provided by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research (Vienna, 4 months)

PRIZES, AWARDS

2019    Anonymus Award of the Research Centre for the Humanities for outstanding research work

2014    Péter Sahin-Tóth Award for the Excellent PhD Thesis in field of Early Modern History

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

2019–              Hungarian Historical Society

2008–2019      Association of Young Archivists (vice-president 2012–2015)

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES  

2019–              Világtörténet, member of editorial board

2012–2014      Hungarian Historical Review, review editor

2006–2009      Sic Itur ad Astra, editor

LANGUAGE SKILLS 

Hungarian (native), English, German (fluent), Italian (competent), Latin (excellent reading knowledge)

PUBLICATIONS

A complete list of publications:

https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=authors10033229

SELECTED PULBICATIONS

BOOKS

• A kaméleonos udvar. XII. Ince pápa és Magyarország felszabadítása a török alól (1691–1700) [The Court of Chamaleons. Pope Innocent XII and the Liberation of Hungary from Ottoman Rule] (Budapest: HUN-REN BTK Történettudományi Intézet, 2025) forthcoming
• The Ever-Reviving Phoenix. Jesuits in Hungary. (Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2024)
• A kétszer megváltott nép. Katolikus egyház a Jászkunság 1687–1746 [The People Twice Redemeed. Catholic Church in the Jászkunság 1687–1746] (Budapest: BTK Történettudományi Intézet, 2020)
• Papok, polgárok, konvertiták. Katolikus megújulás az egri egyházmegyében 1670–1699 [Priests, Burghers, Converts. Catholic Renewal in the Diocese of Eger 1670–1699] (Budapest: MTA BTK Történettudományi Intézet, 2017)

ARTICLES

• “The Making of a Catholic Parish in Eighteenth-Century Hungary: Competing Interests, Integration and Interference,” Hungarian Historical Review 10 (2021) no. 4: 675–705.
• “A Szentszék magyarországi egyházpolitikája a 17. század végén” [The Ecclesiastical Policy of the Holy See in Hungary at the End of the Seventeenth Century], Történelmi Szemle 63 (2021) no. 4: 631–670.
• “The King’s Cousin, the Emperor’s Bishop. Christian August of Saxe-Zeitz as Mediator between Poland and the Holy See,” Eastern European History Review 4 (2021): 249–262.
• “Die Heilige Stuhl und die Idee eines Kurfürstentums Ungarn am Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts,” Ungarn-Jahrbuch 37 (2021): 7–40.
• “The Fall of an Imperial Ambassador: Count Georg Adam von Martinitz and His Recall from Rome,” Theatrum Historiae 19 (2016) 247–273.
• “Sacred Urban Spaces in Seventeenth-Century Upper Hungary,” Hungarian Historical Review 1 (2012) no. 1–2: 22–48.

BOOK CHAPTERS

• “In the Shadow of the Crescent Moon: Hungary and Transylvania,” in: Jefferies, Henry A. – Rex, Richard, eds., Reformations Compared. Religious Transformations across Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024) 80–103.
• “Catholics, heretics and the ‘common enemy’: Papal Diplomacy and the Great Turkish War during the Papacy of Innocent XII, 1691–1700,” in Anderson, Roberta – Backerra, Charlotte, eds., Confessional Diplomacy in Early Modern Europe (London: Routledge, 2021) 39–54.
• “Im Dienst der katholischen Erneuerung. Das Priesterseminar Kisdianum in Kaschau von 1665 bis 1699,” in Fata, Márta et al. (hrsg.), Das Trienter Konzil und seine Rezeption im Ungarn des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts (Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2019) 203–213.
• “Turkismus und Gegenreformation. Die Osmanen und die konfessionellen Konflikte im Ungarn der 1670er Jahre,” in: Born, Robert – Puth, Andreas, eds., Osmanischer Orient und Ostmitteleuropa: Perzeptionen und Interaktionen in den Grenzzonen zwischen dem 16. und 18. Jahrhundert (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014) 321–336.
• “Parish Priests and Communities in the Diocese of Eger in the mid-18th century,” in: Barth-Scalmani, Gunda et al., eds., Forschungswerkstatt: Die Habsburgermonarchie im 18. Jahrhundert / Research Workshop: The Habsburg Monarchy in the 18^th Century (Bochum: Verlag dr. Dieter Winkler, 2012) 127–141.