Béla Vilmos Mihalik
Early modern church and social history of Hungary and Transylvania, especially parish politics, popular sociability and late Catholic confessionalization. And everything with genealogy and family history 🙈
🏡 Budapest, Hungary
❤️ Vienna, Austria
- April 2018, Toledo. In the enormous Renaissance Palace of the Hospital de Tavera, the Ducal Archives of Medinaceli. The archivist left me alone in a small reading room with huge piles of #earlymodern documents, reports, and letters from The 9th Duke of Medinaceli, Spanish ambassador to Rome.
- The first short summary in English about my new #ERCCoG project on the parish politics in #earlymodern East Central Europe 1650-1800, examining the role of popular politics on late Catholic confessionalization and early modern state building. tti.abtk.hu/en/news/new-...
- I’m deeply moved: I’ve been awarded an #ERCCoG for my project on early modern parish politics in East Central Europe. Biggest lesson of 2025: the people around me believed in me and my success more than I ever believed in myself. Thank you all. @erc.europa.eu
- The results of the ERC Consolidator Grant call have been announced! 📣 349 researchers have been selected for funding. Congratulations to all! #ERCCogG! 👉 buff.ly/uu62uFV #FrontierResearch #EUfunded #HorizonEurope @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
- Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
- Danke schön liebe Maria!
- Congratulations! What a fascinating topic!
- Thank you! ☺️
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- Thank you so much! ☺️
- Congratulations! A win for East Central European research! Looking forward to seeing the results as the project unfolds!
- Thank you so much Oana! ☺️
- An unlikely place to find my late grandfather’s second cousine, Renata Baldauf’s grave, and also meet her wonderful family, incl. my fourth cousins. A complex Eastern European family history from the small Hungarian town of Békéscsaba through Transylvania to Schöneiche bei Berlin. #familyhistory
- Ready for a German-American(-Hungarian) family reunion in Berlin this weekend
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- 1572 is the year of death of István Szegedi Kis, a Hungarian Reformer and Theologian, one of the first Calvinist bishops in Hungary. He worked in Central Hungary, already under Ottoman rule, had some interesting dispute, and died in Ráckeve, which was a Serb Orthodoxy cultural hub since 15th c.
- A precious addition to my private archive: a kind note of appreciation from Arturo Sosa, Superior General of the Jesuits, regarding my book on the Hungarian Jesuits. I was genuinely touched — it really meant a lot to me.
- Finally I have my own copy from the book, which was so inspiring for me. #earlymodern
- My new book“The Court of Chameleons” has been published this summer. It explores the transformation of Holy See–Habsburg diplomatic relations during the papacy of Innocent XII (1691–1700) and the liberation of Hungary from the Ottoman rule – for now, only in Hungarian. #earlymodern
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- Igen, ez a b.újvárosi névváltás is borzasztó érdekes, sógoroméknál is volt Kerekes (Rund), Béke (Fried) stb.
- Szia! Sajnos így konkrétan nem volt erre kutatás szerintem (btw sógorom családja is b.újvárosi sváb). A tolnai-baranyai donauschwaben vallásosságára Ament-Kovács Bence munkáit tudom ajánlani, de az meg alapból inkább kat. tömeg volt.
- Speaking about parish politics is 18th-century Hungary at the Central European History Convention on this Wednesday in Vienna #earlymodern #habsburgs #parishes #vienna
- #AcademicFreedom at Risk in #Hungary A damaging restructuring of the Hungarian Research Network has been announced without consultation. Our trade union call for international solidarity. Please read, share and circulate the petition below. chng.it/fP5YdLDMSS
- Today is a tragic day for #Hungary: we have reached the level of Putin’s Russia. We are now witnessing the death of a dream — the betrayal of a democratic legacy born in 1956 and fulfilled in 1990.
- New Series on the Study of Early Modern Christianity in Central Europe published at De Gruyter and REFORC. First volume will be the book of Ulrich Wien on the beginnings of the Reformation in Transylvania.
- In 2013 in Rome, the Pentecost Mass. Requiescat in pace, Papa Franciscus!
- One of the highlights from my first trip to Belgium: Brugge and the tombs of Charles the Bold and his daughter, Mary of Burgundy.
- Academia.edu increased its annual renewal fee from 125$ to 299$. What the hack?! #academia
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- Sure, I will delete my subscription. Unfortunately in Hungarian academia the number of citations is still a relevant index :( But it doesn’t worth for me 299 USD.
- So it begins, or continues. After 32 years, the Department of Germanistic at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Hungary has ceased to exist… #university #academia #humanities
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- Wish I could stay in Dubai for a few days of voluntary “exile”. But I can’t afford it.
- Simply unbelievable :(
- Horrific news out of Assen, Netherlands. Thieves used explosives to access the Drents Museum and made off with several antiquities from ‘Dacia – Empire of Gold and Silver’, including the masterpiece the golden Helmet of Coțofenești, c. 450 BCE, a loan from the National History Museum of Romania. 🏺 😡
- No money, no university
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- Yes, here it mostly affects now the faculties or universities of economy. Of course the gov’s favorite uni got an 19% increase 🤦🏻♂️😃
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- Wow! Looks so good and sounds really interesting!
- Ágnes Keleti, the world's oldest living Olympic champion, #Holocaust survivor and a magical person, has died at the age of 104. In 1952 (Helsinki) and 1956 (Melbourne) she won 5 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze medals in #gymnastics for #Hungary. May her memory be blessed!
- #OTD 75 yrs ago, 1 Jan 1950 Greater #Budapest was created after 16 villages and 7 towns were annexed to the capital city of #Hungary. #20thcentury
- Merry Christmas with Krtek, my childhood Czechoslovak hero mole!
- It was not easy to carve the tree into the hol der, but it’s finally done.
- East Goes West: Kavalierstours of Hungarian Aristocrats in the Seventeenth Century written by Bálint Ugry has been published #earlymodern #skystorians mi.abtk.hu/en/news/bali...
- The General Assembly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences voted under pressure to sell its real assets to the Hungarian state, and it will be given to the Hungarian Research Network, that was formed from the institutes, which were tore from the Academy by the gov in 2019. #academia
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- In Hungary the early modern period is defined from the Battle of Mohács 1526 until the death of Joseph II in 1790 (and of course the French Revolution in 1789)
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- My research centre published in 2021 a monumental work on the history and texts of Szekler-Hungarian rune writing, almost 1000 pages, but unfortunately the volume is in Hungarian, only a summary is in English. abtk.hun-ren.hu/hirek/megjel...
- At first glance I think it is a Szekler-Hungarian rune writing. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Hun...
- Okey my fault, I’ve just looked at the small photo, did not clicked on it, sorry 🙈
- While I am sad to read the news from the English&Dutch universities, here in the "east end" it is all "fun and laughter" - ironically, of course. 5 yrs aft its separation from the Academy, the Hungarian research network is facing another severe transformation. #academia
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- That is so interesting! One of my fav is Stephanus Parmenius Budai, who was born in the 1550s in Ottoman-occupied Hungary, studied in Heidelberg and Oxford, joined Sír Humphrey Gilbert’s expedition, reached Newfoundland, and died in a storm near Sable Island, nowadays Canada in 1583.
