Géza Pálffy (; born 9 February 1971) is a Hungarian historian, full (university) professor. He has long been active in research of the relationship between the Habsburg monarchy and Kingdom of Hungary in the 16–17th centuries. He works as a scientist both in Hungary and around the world, and has published in several languages: English, German, Slovak, Croatian, Romanian, French, Russian, Italian, Czech, Turkish and Hungarian.
Biography and career He took M. A. degrees at the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Faculty of Arts in History (1994) and archival studies in 1995.
During his academic years he also learned Turcology and Slavistics because he was interested in the history of Ottoman Empire, and its relations with Kingdom of Hungary.
He has been working at the Institute of History of Research Centre for the Humanities of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest since his graduation.
In 1999 he completed his PhD degree in History and then was awarded Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) degree in history in 2010.
He started as a research fellow and in 2002 he became a senior research fellow. He became a scientific adviser (Professor) and he acted as a Head of the Department of Early Modern History from 2011 until 2013. He lectured as a visiting professor at the University of Miskolc, Eötvös Loránd University, and at the University of Pécs. In 2012 he was appointed the leader of “Lendület” (“Momentum”) Holy Crown of Hungary Research Group. He has done research abroad, in Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany for several times.
His working papers were issued in both national and international research scientific journals, and circa 400 scientific articles and books were published in several languages: English, German, Slovak, Croatian, Rumanian, French, Russian, Italian, Czech, Turkish and Hungarian. He presents his talks at conferences and science forums. He has written and edited articles and monographs. He also works as a supervisor at numerous doctoral schools at Hungarian and international universities, and undertakes the role of a doctoral thesis opponent and in evaluation committees as a reviewer at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
He is married to Dr. Magdolna Friedler, who works as an organist.
Committee memberships Member of the Gesellschaft für die Erforschung der Frühen Neuzeit, Wien, 1995– Member of the Arbeitskreis „Militär und Gesellschaft”, Berlin, 1996– Member of the Society of Castrum Bene, Budapest, 1998– Member of the Commission of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2008– Member of the Foundation of Aktion Österreich-Ungarn, 2003–
Editorial board memberships Member of the Editorial Staff of Hadtörténelmi Közlemények [Journal of Military History, Budapest), 1999– Member of the Editorial Staff of Múlt-kor (Internet Journal of History), 2001– Member of the Editorial Staff of Zbornik Odsjeka za povijesne znanosti Zavoda za povijesne i društvene znanosti Hrvatske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti (Zagreb), 2002– Member of the Editorial Staff of Podravina: Časopis za multidisciplinarna istraživanja (Zagreb), 2002– Member of the Editorial Staff of Lymbus: Magyarságtudományi forrásközlemények (Lymbus: Sources in Hungarologhy, Budapest), 2002–2017 Member of the Editorial Staff of Századok [Centuries, Budapest), 2003–2007 Member of the editorial board of Századok, 2003–2012 Member of the Editorial Staff of Ekonomska i ekohistorija: Časopis za gospodarsku povijest i povijest okoliša (Zagreb), 2005– Member of the Editorial Staff of Časopis Matice moravske (Brno), 2007– Member of the Editorial Staff of Radovi Zavoda za hrvstaku povijest (Faculty of Arts, University of Zagreb), 2011–
Carrier-related public activities Academic Advisor of Institute of Habsburg History, Budapest 2003–2009, 2011– Deputy-Secretary-General of the Hungarian Historical Society, 1999–2003 President of the Foundation of Fons, 1995–1998
Fields of interest History of the Kingdom of Hungary and the Central European Habsburg Monarchy from the 15th to the Beginning of the 18th Century with the special regard to the history of the defence system against the Ottomans in Hungary and Croatia (16th–17th centuries) to the Habsburg-Hungarian the Hungarian-Slovak and the Hungarian-Croatian relations to the political, military and social history of Central Europe in the early-modern age to the history of Habsburg Court in Vienna/Prague to thehistory of the Hungarian aristocracy and Hungarian coronation
Awards and honors Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary, 2015 Magyar Kultúra Lovagja (Knight of Hungarian Culture), 2011 Bálint Balassi Medal, 2004 Talent Award, 2003 Jenő Szűcs Prize (Open Society Foundations), 2001 Bezerédj Scholarship, 2001 Ferenc Szakály Medal, 2000 Youth Prize (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), 1997 Young Military Historian Award, 1996 Pro Scientia Medal, 1993
Works Papers
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Pálffy, Géza: Ein vergessener Ausgleich in der Geschichte der Habsburgermonarchie des 17. Jahrhunderts: Der ungarische Krönungsreichstag in Ödenburg/Sopron, 1622. In: Adel und Religion in der frühneuzeitlichen Habsburgermonarchie. Annäherung an ein gesamtösterreichisches Thema. Hrsg. Katrin Keller–Petr Maťa–Martin Scheutz. Wien–Köln–Weimar : Böhlau, 2017. (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, 68.) 388 p., itt: p. 85–107. Pálffy, Géza–Ferenc Tóth: Les couronnements en Hongrie à l’époque moderne (1526–1792). Représentations et outils politico-diplomatiques. In: Revue d'histoire diplomatique, 131. (2017) Nr. 3., p. 253–276. Pálffy, Géza: 16. Yüzyıl Macaristan ve Hırvatistanı’nda Türk Tehdidine Karşı Müdafaa ve Askeri Haritacılık. In: Güney Doğu Avrupa Araştırmaları Dergisi / The Journal of South-Eastern European Studies, Istanbul, 24. (2013) Nr. 2., p. 17–47. Pálffy, Géza: Jahrhundert von Trennungen und Ausgleichen. Die Geschichte des Königreichs Ungarn im 17. Jahrhundert in einem neuen Licht. In: Historisches Jahrbuch, 137. (2017), p. 248–267. Pálffy, Géza: Век разрывов и компромиссов: новый взгляд на историю Венгерского королевства XVII вeкa. In: Cлaвянoвeдeниe / Slavyanovedenie, (2016) No. 2., p. 41–50. Pálffy, Géza: Heraldische Repräsentation der Jagiellonen und der Habsburger. Die Wappen des königlichen Oratoriums im Prager Veitsdom im mitteleuropäischen Kontext. In: Historie – Otázky – Problémy [Praha] 7. (2015) č. 2., p. 176–190. Pálffy, Géza: Kampf um Transdanubien: Die Familie Nádasdy und die ungarische Aristokratie im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert. In: Die Familie Nádasdy vom 16. bis ins 20. Jahrhundert. Tagunsgband der 29. und 30. Schlaininger Gespräche 2009/2010. Hrsg. Rudolf Kropf. Red.: Karin Sperl. Eisenstadt : Amt der Burgenländischen Landesregierung, Abteilung 7 – Landesmuseum, 2015. (Wissenschaftliche Arbeiten aus dem Burgenland, 154.) p. 641, itt: p. 29–54. Pálffy, Géza: Le siècle des ruptures et compromis : nouvelle approche de l’histoire du Royaume de Hongrie au cours due XVIIe siècle. In: Histoire, Economie et Société, 34. (2015) No. 3., p. 78–89. Pálffy, Géza: Il secolo delle divisioni a dei compromessi: un nuovo approccio alla storia del Regno d’Ungheria nel corso del XVII secolo. In: Studia Historica Adriatica ac Danubiana, 8. (2015) Nr. 1–2., p. 13–28. Pálffy, Géza: Die Türkenabwehr und die Militärkartographie der Habsburgermonarchie in Ungarn und Kroatien–Slawonien im 16. Jh. In: Historični seminar [Ljubljana], 11. (2014) p. 37–70. Pálffy, Géza: Die Rolle der Familie Batthyány in der Grenzverteidigung gegen die Osmanen im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert. In: Die Familie Batthyány. Ein österreichisch-ungarisches Magnatengeschlecht vom Ende des Mittelalters bis zur Gegenwart. Tagungsband der 25.-27. Schlaininger Gespräche vom 25.-29. September 2005, 24.-28. September 2006 und 17.-20. September 2007. Hrsg. Rudolf Kropf. Redaktion: Martin Krenn. Eisenstadt : Amt der Burgenländischen Landesregierung, Abteilung 7 – Landesmuseum, 2014. (Wissenschaftliche Arbeiten aus dem Burgenland, 139. und 146.) p. 275–297. Pálffy, Géza: Najstariji prikazi hrvatskih zastava iz 16. i 17. stoljeća. Jedinstveni izvori za proučavanje povijesti hrvatskih državnih i nacionalnih simbola. In: Ascendere historiam. Zbornik u čast Milana Kruheka. Prired. Marija Karbić – Hrvoje Kekez – Ana Novak – Zorislav Horvat. (Biblioteka Hrvatska povjesnica – Zbornici radova) Zagreb : Hrvatski institut za povijest, 2014. p. 327–346. Pálffy, Géza: Izvanredan izvor o zemljopisnim znanjima ugarsko-hrvatske političke elite 16. stoljeća: popis ugarskih i slavonskih gradova, utvrda i kaštela koji su između 1526. i 1556. dospjeli u turske ruke, sastavljen za staleže Njemačko-Rimskoga Carstva. In: Scrinia Slavonica: Godišnjak Podružnice za povijest Slavonije, Srijema i Baranje Hrvatskog instituta za povijest, 14. (2014) p. 9–39. Pálffy, Géza: Ewige Verlierer oder auch ewige Gewinner? Aufstände und Unruhen im frühneuzeitlichen Ungarn. In: Die Stimme der ewigen Verlierer? Aufstände, Revolten und Revolutionen in den österreichischen Ländern (ca. 1450–1815). Vorträge der Jahrestagung des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung (Wien, 18.–20. Mai 2011). Hrsg. Peter Rauscher–Martin Scheutz. Wien–München : Böhlau–Oldenbourg, 2013. (Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Erg.-Bd. 61.) p. 151–175. Pálffy, Géza: Der Adel aus den ungarischen Ländern am Kaiserhof 1526–1612. In: Die weltliche und kirchliche Elite aus dem Königreich Böhmen und Königreich Ungarn am Wiener Kaiserhof im 16.-17. Jahrhundert. Hrsg. Anna Fundárková–István Fazekas et alii. Wien : Institut für Ungarische Geschichtsforschung in Wien – Institut für Geschichte der Slowakischen Akademie der Wissenschaften – Ungarische Akademie der Wissenschaften–Pázmány Péter Katholische Universität „Lendület“ Kirchengeschichtliches Forschungsinstitut, 2013. (Publikationen der ungarischen Geschichtsforschung in Wien, Bd. VIII.) p. 37–76. Pálffy, Géza: Miesta konania uhorských snemov v Prešporku a Šoproni v 16. – 17. storočí (K ranonovovekým dejinám symbolickej politickej komunikácie). In: WOCH: Ročenka pre genealógiu a regionálne dejiny Bratislavy, I. (2013) č. 1., p. 16–35. Pálffy, Géza: Crisis in the Habsburg Monarchy and Hungary, 1619–1622: The Hungarian Estates and Gábor Bethlen. In: Hungarian Historical Review, 2. (2013) no. 4., p. 733–760. Pálffy, Géza: An ’Old Empire’ on the Periphery of the Old Empire: The Kingdom of Hungary and the Holy Roman Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. In: The Holy Roman Empire, 1495–1806: A European Perspective. Ed. R. J. W. Evans–Peter H. Wilson. Leiden–Boston : Brill, 2012. (Brill's Companions to European History, 1.) 401 p., p. 259–279. Pálffy, Géza: The Habsburg Defense System in Hungary Against the Ottomans in Sixteenth Century: A Catalyst of Military Development in Central Europe. In: Warfare in Eastern Europe, 1500–1800. Ed. Brian J. Davies. Leiden–Boston : Brill, 2012. (History of Warfare, 72.) p. 35–61. Pálffy, Géza: Prekogranična povezanost Nikole IV. i Nikole VII. Zrinskog (Hrvatsko-mađarska plemićka obitelj u aristokraciji Ugarsko-hrvatskog Kraljevstva i u Habsburškoj Monarhiji). In: Susreti dviju kultura: Obitelj Zrinski u hrvatskoj i mađarskoj povijesti. Zbornik radova. Ured. Sándor Bene–Zoran Ladić–Gábor Hausner. Zagreb : Matica hrvatska, 2012. (Biblioteka Zbornici, 4.) 558 p., p. 117–163. Pálffy, Géza: Baróni a magnáti v Uhorskom kráľovstve v 16. storočí. In: Frederik Federmayer a kol.: Magnátske rody v našich dejinách 1526 – 1948. Almanach Slovenskej genealogicko-heraldickej spoločnosti 2012. Martin : Slovenská genealogicko-heraldická spoločnosť, 2012. 379 p., p. 17–28. Pálffy, Géza: Korunovačné zástavy krajín Uhorskej koruny od neskorého stredoveku do začiatku 20. storočia. In: Galéria: Ročenka Slovenskej národnej galérie v Bratislave, (2011) p. 7–30.