Bishop Peter Nagy

* Pozsonypyüspöki, April 19, 1944 –  / historian, heraldist, historian of writing, associate professor. ; ; He completed his primary school studies in his native village, and graduated from the Hungarian Gymnasium in Bratislava in 1962. After that, he was a theology student (1962–1964), then he obtained a degree in historian archivist at the Comenius University in Bratislava in 1971. In 1988, he became a candidate of history (PhD.). In 1987–1992, he was a lecturer at ELTE in Budapest, from 1990 he was an associate professor, and from 1993 he also lectured at the Károli Gáspár Reformed University in Budapest. His main research area is early medieval Hungarian history and heraldry. In addition, he has published works on settlement history. He translated Mátyás Bél's work The Life of the Hungarian People around 1730 (1984). As a university student, he deciphered the runic monument of Upper Szemeréd. He designed the coats of arms of seven Slovak settlements (Dunaszerdahely, Ipolyság, Nagymegyer, Naszvad, Párkány, Rozsnyó, Zseliz), and wrote a longer study on some of them. He is a corresponding member of the Paris-based International Academy of Heraldry (since 1974). His idea regarding the location of Great Moravia was fiercely rejected by Slovak historians. In 1993, he was awarded the Albert Szent-Györgyi Prize. ; ; His main works: ; History of a Bishop's Market Town, 1968, ; Coat of Arms of the City of Dunaszerdahely, 1970, ; Coat of Arms of the City of Rozsnyó, 1973, ; Boldogfa, 1981, ; The history of the hydrographic image of Csallóköz from Strabo's Geographika to the time of King Béla IV, 1985, ; On the names of Csallóköz, 1989, ; The beginnings of markets and fairs in Hungary 1000–1301. Volume I (1989), ; From the history of the Jewish community of Dunaszerdahely, 1991, ; A selected bibliography of Latin paleography, 1992, ; Judaism in the early Árpád period, 2001.