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Gabor Klaniczay
Gabor klaniczay is Professor, Director of Doctoral Studies,
Medieval Studies Department, CEU, Budapest.
1992-99 a CEU Senate member (Doctoral Committee, External
Relations Committee, Strategic Planning Committe)
Fields of interest of Gabor klaniczay are religious and
cultural history. Gabor klaniczay research focuses on the
1999-99 Chair of the Rector Search Committee of CEU
2001- ceu doctoral Committee member
historical anthropology of medieval and early modern
European popular religion (sainthood, miracle beliefs,
2001 - Humanities Center of the CEU International Advisory
Council member
healing, magic, witchcraft). He is a pioneer in the
application of anthropological methods to historical

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analysis in Hungary. His other endeavor is related to the
comparative approach to history, within the framework of

1980-1985 a MTA Kulturalis Antropologia munkabizottsag
which he intends to situate historical observations on
Hungary and Central Europe in an all-European context. His
1990-2001 secretary of the Frencs-Hungarian mixed Committee
of Historians
most recent topic is a comparative and cross-cultural
analysis of medieval and modern visions and apparitions.
2003-advisory board member Musee d’Europe (Bruxelles)
2003-member of the National Committee of Hungarian

Year of birth 1950
Historians
2006-2007 member of the Advisory Group on Humanities and

Education, Academic Titles
Social Sciences at the DG Research of the European
Commission, Bruxelles

1974 Graduated in History, Medieval Studies, and English
2007-member of the Hungarian Accreditation Board – History
Committee
Philology at Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest
1976 postgraduate studies in Paris with Jacques Le Goff

Teaching experience
(Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) and Michel
Mollat (Sorbonne)

Since 1984 Courses in medieval history at ELTE, Budapest at
1983 Dr. Phil. at ELTE
1994 Cand. Sci. at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
CEU since 1993/1994 one semester each year Hagiography since
1995/96 one semester each year Historical Anthropology
2001 Dr. Habil., Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest
2004 Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1993/1994 new Sensitivities in Contemporary Historical
Research

Employments, Academic and Administrative Charges
1995/1996 magic in the Middle Ages
1996/1997 religious Movements in Late Medieval Europe

1974-78 Editor at the review Vilagossag
1998/1999 religion in the Courts (Saints, Heretics,
Witches)
1978–84 assistant Research Fellow at the Institute for
Historical Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2000/2001 from the Ethnogenesis to Protonationalism
2001/2002 mendicant Orders between West and East since 1995
1985–90 secretary of the National Committee of Hungarian
Historians
PhD Research Seminar since 1995 PhD Seminar since 1999
University and Department Network Coordination
1984–90 assistant Professor, 1990– associate Professor,
1994–97 head of the Department of Medieval European
2002/2003 the Cult of Saints and Medieval Canonization
Trials
History, ELTE
1989-1993 founding Editor of Budapesti Konyvszemle (BUKSZ)
2002/2003 the Annales School - History and Historiography

1993-2001 chairman of the Editorial Board
1990-97 Program Director, Historical Anthropology Program
Most important publications

sponsored by the Soros Foundation, ELTE, Budapest, (together
with Andras Gero)
A civilizacio peremen. Kulturtorteneti tanulmanyok,
Budapest, Magveto, 1990, pp.393.
1991-1997 editor of Budapest Review of Books
1991–92 associate Dean for International Relations at
The Uses of Supernatural Power. The Transformations of the
Popular Religion in Medieval and Early Modern Europe Polity
ELTE, Faculty of Humanities
1992–97 head of the Department of Medieval Studies at CEU,
Press, Cambridge - Princeton University Press, Princeton,
1990, pp.259.
Budapest
1997- Professor of Medieval Studies at CEU, Budapest
With T. Klaniczay, Szent Margit legendai es stigmai.
Irodalomtorteneti Fuzetek, 135, Argumentum, Budapest, 1994.
1997-2002 rector and Permanent Fellow of Collegium Budapest
2002- Permanent Fellow of Collegium Budapest
pp. 255.
Az uralkodok szentsege a kozepkorban. Magyar dinasztikus
2005-2007 head of the Department of Medieval Studies at CEU,
Budapest
szentkultuszok es europai modellek. Balassi Kiado, Budapest,
2000. pp. 372.

Fellowships
with E. Madas (eds.), Legendak es csodak (13-16. szazad).
Szentek a magyar kozepkorbol II. Osiris Kiado, Budapest,

1986 Research Fellowship, Columbia University, New York,
2001. pp. 501.
with I. Kristof, TEcritures saintes et pactes diaboliques.
(Institute on East-Central Europe)
1989 ‘Maitre de conferences associe’ at the Ecole des
Les usages religieux de l’ecrit (Moyen Age et temps
Modernes)t Annales hss, 56 (2001), pp. 947-980.
Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
1990–91 fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses. Dynastic Cults in
Medieval Central Europe. translated by Eva Palmai, Cambridge
1992 Getty Scholar at the Getty Center for Arts and the
Humanities, Santa Monica
University Press, Cambridge, 2002. pp. 400.
Transz es szkepticizmus Johannes Nider Formicarius cimu
1996 Resident Scholar at the Bellagio Study and Conference
Center
traktatusaban, in E. Pocs (ed.) Demonologia es boszorkanysag
Europaban , L’Harmattan, Budapest, 2001. pp. 39-106.
2003/2004 fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the
Behavioral Sciences, Stanford
Le stigmate di santa Margherita d’Ungheria: immagini e
testi, Iconographica. Rivista di iconografia medievale e

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moderna, i, 2002, pp. 16-31.
(ed.) Europa ezer eve: a kozepkor, Osiris Kiado, Budapest,

1989-99 elte reform committee
2004. i-ii. kot.

 
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