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Postdoc researcher Dr Márton Zászkaliczky

Postdoc researcher, “The Aggressor” project, The Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS).

Research Fellow (July 2025-July 2026), Department of History of Philosophy and Intellectual History, Hungarian Philosophy Research Group, Institute of Philosophy, HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, Hungary.

 

Address: 

Institute of Philosophy
Research Centre for the Humanities
4. Tóth Kálmán st., Budapest, 1097 Hungary

 

Email address: zaszkamarci@gmail.com

Portrait of the PostDoc Márton Zászkaliczky

Research topic

Attila the Hun, Suleiman, and the Habsburgs: The Image of the Aggressor and the Ambiguity of Empires in the Literary Discourses of Early Modern Hungary and its Modern Reinterpretations

Studies

Studied history (MA) and literature at the Károli Gáspár University of the Hungarian Reformed Church (Budapest), obtained another MA in Comparative History of East Central Europe at Central European university, had doctoral studies in early modern history at CEU, and CEU/FCO Chevening Scholarship, Oxford, St. Anne's College. 

Recent research focus

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2021-2025
Research member: History of Hungarian Philosophy in Early Modernity (1570-1710), University of Szeged
2020-2024
Research member: Stoic tradition in Early Modern Hungarian Literature, Károli Gáspár University
2015-2019   
Research member: Nation, patria, religion, and liberty - old and new political discourses in the textual tradition of the Bocskai rebellion and the 17th century Hungarian political thought, supported by OTKA-The Hungarian Scientific Research Fund, research place: Institute for Literary Studies, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2017-2018
Curator, Grammar and Grace: 500 years of Reformation, Exhibition, Hungarian National Museum
2009/10
Organizer, Encyclopaedism, Pansophia, and Universal Communication, 1560-1670, Budapest, CEU-Semmelweis Museum of Medical History-Univ. of Oxford
2008/09
Project Member, Freedom and the Construction of Europe: New Perspectives on Philosophical, Religious and Political Controversies, Leaders: Q. Skinner (Camb/Lond), M v. Gelderen (EUI)
2004-2009
Project Assistant, Intellectual History of Early Modern Patriotism (History Department, CEU)

Research Interests

  • Early modern political thought in Europe;
  • History of Reformation in Hungary;
  • Early modern intellectual history in Hungary and Protestant Europe

Teaching experience

  • Early Hungarian Literature (1000-1700), Lecturer, Károli Gáspár University of the Hungarian Reformed Church (Budapest), Faculty of Arts, Department of Old and Classical Hungarian Literature
  • Library Studies in Hungarian and English
  • History as Context - Historical introduction to the American, French and German constitutionalism, within the Comparative Constitutionalism and Human Rights Programs (Legal Department of CEU)

Publications (selection)

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1) (Co-editor, introduction) Báthory Orsolya, Bene Sándor, Kármán Gábor, Kruppa Tamás, Zászkaliczky Márton, eds. Források a 17. századi magyar politikai gondolkodás történetéhez III. (Bibliotheca Hungariae Politica) (Budapest, 2024) (Anthology of the Bocskai Rebellion 1604-1606, 462 p.)
2) (Co-editor) Báthory Orsolya, Bene Sándor, Kármán Gábor, Zászkaliczky Márton, eds. Források a 17. századi magyar politikai gondolkodás történetéhez II. (Budapest: Reciti Kiadó, 2020) (Political justification in Prince Gábor Bethlen’s and the Rákóczis’ political correspondence, 328 p.)
3) (Co-editor) Kármán Gábor és Zászkaliczky Márton eds., Források a 17. századi magyar politikai gondolkodás történetéhez. I. (Budapest: Reciti Kiadó, 2019) (The debate literature of confessional politics in the early 17th c. Hungary, Pamphlets by Péter Pázmány, Péter Alvinczi, Tamás Balásfi, 290 p.)

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“A Bocskai-felkelés legitimációs iratai: Bevezetés (A Bocskai-felkelés historiográfiája; A Bocskai-felkelés legitimációs iratai: kötetünkről)” [Documents of political justification and legitimacy: Introduction (The Historiography of the Bocskai rebellion; The Documents of Justification: On our edition)] In Források a 17. századi magyar politikai gondolkodás történetéhez III. (Budapest, 2024) [Anthology of the Bocskai Rebellion 1604-1606], 9-40.
Révay Péter a Bocskai-felkelésről [Péter Révay on the Bocskai Uprising (1604–1606)]. In: A Szent Korona első kutatója. Tanulmányok Révay Péter koronaőrről és munkásságáról. [The First Researcher of the Holy Crown of Hungary: Studies on Crown-Custodian Péter Révay and His Works] Szerk. Pálffy Géza – Tóth Gergely. Budapest: HUN-REN Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Történettudományi Intézet, 2024. (Magyar Történelmi Emlékek, Értekezések) 185–210.
Kármán Gábor; Zászkaliczky Márton (ed.), Politikai nyelvek a 17. század első felének Magyarországán (Budapest: Reciti Kiadó, 2019) (Political languages of early 17th c. Hungary, Studies, 382 p.)
„A Bocskai-felkelés politikai nyelvei” [The Political Languages of the Bocskai Rebellion] In: Politikai nyelvek a 17. század első felének Magyarországán, 2019, 11-84.
Kiss Erika; Zászkaliczky Márton; et al. (ed.), Ige-Idők: a reformáció 500 éve: 2017. Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, április 26 - november 5. (Budapest: Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, 2019), 463 p. (Studies for the Reformation Exhibition at the Hungarian National Museum 2017)
„Hungary” In: Timothy, J Wengert (ed), Dictionary of Luther and the Lutheran traditions (Baker Academic, 2017), 345-347.
„Eszmetörténeti szempontok a történeti alkotmányosság közép- és kora újkori magyarországi történetéhez” Közjogi Szemle 8 (2015): 3, pp. 14-25. [Viewpoints/approach of intellectual history to the Medieval and Early Modern History of Ancient Constitutionalism in Hungary]
Co-author with Kees Teszelszky, „A Bocskai-felkelés és az európai információhálózatok: Hírek, diplomácia és politikai propaganda, 1604–1606 [The Bocskai-rebellion and the European information networks: News, diplomacy and political propaganda, 1604-1606], Aetas (2012), 4: 49-120.
„The language of liberty in early modern Hungarian political debate” In: Quentin Skinner; Martin van Gelderen (ed.), Freedom and the Construction of Europe - New perspectives on philosophical, religious and political controversies, Volume 1, Religious Freedom and Civil Liberty (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) 274-295.
Trencsényi Balázs,Zászkaliczky Márton eds. ’Whose Love of Which Country: Composite States, National Histories and Patriotic Discourses in Early Modern East Central Europe (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2010)

English

„Der Aggressor" Projekt - Kontakten