Niederhauser Emil

* Bratislava, 16 November 1923 – † Budapest, 26 March 2010 / historian, cultural historian, university professor, Széchenyi Prize winner, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1993) ; ; He graduated from high school in his hometown. He began his university studies in Bratislava in 1942, then at the end of World War II he moved to Budapest with his parents and obtained a Hungarian-history teaching certificate from the Pázmány Péter University in 1948. He taught in a high school for a short time, then from 1949 he worked as a research associate at the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Later he was appointed deputy director of the institute, but he also headed the history of historiography and the information department. He was appointed as a research professor: in 1951 he began teaching at the Faculty of Humanities of the Kossuth Lajos University of Debrecen (today: University of Debrecen). In 1953 he was appointed as an associate professor and in 1973 as a university professor. From 1984 until his death he was also a lecturer at the Department of Eastern European History at ELTE in Budapest. He retired in 1993 and was awarded the title of professor emeritus in 1997. In 1957 he defended his candidate's thesis in history entitled The Emancipation of Serfs in Eastern Europe. He defended his academic doctoral thesis entitled The Emancipation of Serfs and the Nationality Question in Eastern Europe in 1972. He became a member of the Committees on Historical Sciences and Cultural History. In 1987, he was elected a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and in 1993, a full member. Between 1990 and 1998, he was the chairman of the National and Hungarian Accreditation Committees. He was also a member of the editorial board of the monthly magazine Magyar Tudomány. He also served on the editorial board of the journals Történeti Szemle, Századok and Kisebbségkutatás. His research area is the comparative history of Eastern Europe in the 18th–19th centuries. He dealt with the issues of Eastern European national renewal movements, Eastern European modernization and public education, but his research also extended to the connections between urbanization and national renewal and the language issue. ; ; His main works: ; History of Bulgaria, 1959, ; The Liberation of Serfdom in Eastern Europe, 1962, ; Russian Culture in the 19th Century 19th century, 1970, ; Boiling Peninsula. The Balkans in the 19th-20th centuries, 1972, ; Birth of Nations in Eastern Europe, 1976, ; National Renewal Movements in Eastern Europe, 1977, ; The Habsburgs. A European Phenomenon (with Imre Gonda), 1977, ; The Rise of Nationality in Eastern Europe, 1982, ; History of Germany (with Gyula Tokody), 1983, ; The Assassination of Queen Elizabeth, 1985, 1848: ; Sturm im Habsburgerreich, 1995, ; History of Historiography in Eastern Europe, 1995, ; History of Russia (with Márta Font, Gyula Szvák and Tamás Krausz), 1997, ; Maria Theresa (In: Niederhauser Emil – Aleksandr Kamensky: Maria Theresa – Catherine the Great), 2000, ; History of Eastern Europe, 2000, ; Nation and Minority, 2001, ; The Romanovs (with Gyula Szvák), 2002, ; Hungary and Europe, 2003, ; The Life and Times of Maria Theresa, 2004, ; Talleyrand – Metternich, 2005.