Norbert C. Tóth, who was once connected with the Lendület project in it's side project Camera Apostolica, is the first student from Pázmány Péter Catholic University since it's foundation who successfully defended his Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Science…
On behalf of the Fraknói Research Group, Balázs Rétfalvi and György Sági gave lectures at the conference "Misericordias Domini in aeternum cantabo", which was organised on 27 November 2017, the 50th year anniversary of the death of József Pétery, bishop of Vác…
Tamás Fedeles, senior research fellow of the Fraknói Research Group gave an interview on the Vatican Radio on the occasion of the arrival of our book "Hungary and Holy See of Rome II". As before, we try our best in the present and the future to make our new…
Viktor Kanász, research assistant fellow of the Fraknói Research Group gave a lecture about the murder of György Fráter (Georgius Martinuzzi) and the Habsburg relations in the 1550s at the Piarist School of Nagykanizsa on 17 November 2017. In his lecture he ga…
Accepting the invitation of the Fraknói Research Group, Prof. Silvano Giordano OCD held a lecture about the Council of Trent at Pázmány Péter Catholic University on 16 November 2017. The lecture was in Italian, the interpreter was György Domokos, leader of the…
Péter Tusor and András Koltai held presentations on the opening event of the new exhibition in the Buda Castle on 15 November 2017. The exhibition "For Faith and Knowledge: The Piarists and the Hungarian Culture" was opened on the 400th year anniversary of the…
Péter Tusor, leader of the Fraknói Research Group presented the book "Jesuit presence in Győr in the 17-18th century" during a conference in Győr on 10 November 2017. The new volume contains the results of the symposium which was organised with the same name o…
Wolfgang Reinhard’s study „Konfession & Konfessionalisierung in Europa” was translated in Hungarian and was published by the Fraknói Research Group. The lecture which the study was based on had been organised on 3 May 2017 at the Hungarian Academy of Scienc…
Péter Tusor's book Péter Pázmány’s Process of Enquiry. His Family, Catholicisation, Missions was published as the second publication of the Fraknói Research Group. One of the most exciting part of the Hungarian Vatican historical research is the discovery o…
The first workshop seminar of the Fraknói Research Group was organised at the University of Pécs on 11 October 2017. The first lecture was given by Péter Tusor, leader of the Research Group, who gave a summary of the Vatican research from Vilmos Fraknói unt…
Péter Tusor and Rev. Máté Gárdonyi participated at the conference Catholic church society in the 17th century in Pécs. The event was officially opened by György Udvardy bishop of Pécs. Péter Tusor gave a lecture titled The prosophography of the hungarian pr…
On 27 September 2017, senior research fellow Tamás Kruppa habilitated at the University of Pécs with a result of 93% summa cum laude. Opponents were Klára Papp (University of Debrecen), János Kalmár (Eötvös Loránd University, Eszterházy Károly University). Cha…
Péter Tusor gave an interview about Péter Pázmány in the program „History and literature” in the Hungarian Television (MTV). The interview can be accessed here.
Leader of our research group, Péter Tusor contributed in the works of publishing a new book about István Gyöngyösi, poet from the 17th century Hungary. Presentation of the book Gyöngyösi István levelei és iratai (Letters and documents of István Gyöngyösi) was …
Our new book titled Magyarország és a római Szentszék II. Vatikáni magyar kutatások a 21. században (Hungary and the Holy See of Rome II. Hungarian Historical Researches of the 21th Century in the Vatican) was published. It is the first pubication in the frame…
Interview with Péter Tusor in Duna TV about science, art and research (’Impetus’ program, research in the Vatican Archives, etc) The relevant part of the interview between 05.01–12.37.
Research fellow Gábor Nemes and assistant research fellow Viktor Kanász gave lectures on a conference related to the 16th century history of the diocese of Veszprém. The conference was held during 30–31 August 2017 in Veszprém. In his lecture (Pietro Isvali…
The third Fraknói Summer Academy was organized and it was held in Tihany and Veszprém during 7–11 August 2017. The subject of the scientific lectures was mainly the Archdiocese of Veszprém. Curators of the event were Péter Tusor and Máté Gárdonyi, the director…
Although the 5 years operation of our Lendület project just ended, we continue our work as the MTA-PPKE Vilmos Fraknói Vatican Historical Research Group from 1 July 2017. The closing reports about our work and accomplishments can be found in the attached fi…
Ádám Porubszky (1993)Assistant Research Fellow (PPKE KAP) (2017–2019)