The Most Famous

HISTORIANS from Hungary

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This page contains a list of the greatest Hungarian Historians. The pantheon dataset contains 561 Historians, 5 of which were born in Hungary. This makes Hungary the birth place of the 20th most number of Historians behind China, and Netherlands.

Top 5

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Hungarian Historians of all time. This list of famous Hungarian Historians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

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1. İbrahim Peçevi (1574 - 1650)

With an HPI of 60.72, İbrahim Peçevi is the most famous Hungarian Historian.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.

İbrahim Peçevi or Peçuyli İbrahim Efendi or (in Bosnian) Ibrahim Alajbegović Pečevija (1572–1650) (Ottoman Turkish: پچویلی ابراهیم افندى ) was an Ottoman Bosnian historian-chronicler of the Ottoman Empire.

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2. Géza Alföldy (1935 - 2011)

With an HPI of 57.09, Géza Alföldy is the 2nd most famous Hungarian Historian.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Géza Alföldy (June 7, 1935 – November 6, 2011) was a Hungarian historian of ancient history.

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3. Andreas Alföldi (1895 - 1981)

With an HPI of 55.87, Andreas Alföldi is the 3rd most famous Hungarian Historian.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

András (Andreas) Ede Zsigmond Alföldi (27 August 1895 – 12 February 1981) was a Hungarian historian, art historian, epigraphist, numismatist and archaeologist, specializing in the Late Antique period. He was one of the most productive 20th-century scholars of the ancient world and is considered one of the leading researchers of his time. Although some of his research results are controversial, his work in several areas is viewed as groundbreaking. Professor Alföldi contributed significantly to the massive Cambridge Ancient History, including Vol. 12: The Imperial Crisis and Recovery. He became a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1955.

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4. Gábor Kósa (b. 1971)

With an HPI of 48.82, Gábor Kósa is the 4th most famous Hungarian Historian.  His biography has been translated into 31 different languages.

Gábor Kósa (born 31 January 1971) is a Hungarian historian of religions, a professor at the Faculty of Humanities of the Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Chinese Studies. (Chinese name: Kāng Gāobǎo; Traditional Chinese: 康高寶; Simplified Chinese: 康高宝.)

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5. John Komlos (b. 1944)

With an HPI of 43.61, John Komlos is the 5th most famous Hungarian Historian.  His biography has been translated into 19 different languages.

John Komlos (born 28 December 1944) is an American economic historian of Hungarian descent and former holder of the chair of economic history at the University of Munich.

People

Pantheon has 5 people classified as Hungarian historians born between 1574 and 1971. Of these 5, 2 (40.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Hungarian historians include Gábor Kósa, and John Komlos. The most famous deceased Hungarian historians include İbrahim Peçevi, Géza Alföldy, and Andreas Alföldi. As of April 2024, 5 new Hungarian historians have been added to Pantheon including İbrahim Peçevi, Géza Alföldy, and Andreas Alföldi.

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