Tamás Kruppa

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Tamás Kruppa (1967), Ph.D. (University of Szeged, 2000); Dr habil. (University of Pécs, 2017); D.Sc. (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2025)
Senior Research Fellow

Studies in Hungarian

Levéltári Közlemények 76 (2005) 2, 51–92.

Tanulmányok Budapest múltjából XLII. „Buda oppugnata”: 1541 – Egy korszakhatár a magyar történelemben, szerk. B. Szabó János–Szvoboda Dománszky Gabriella, Budapest 2017, 61–76.

Magyarország és a Római Szentszék II. Vatikáni magyar kutatások a 21. században, szerk. Fedeles Tamás–Szovák Kornél–Tusor Péter, (CVH I/15) Budapest–Róma, 2017, 187–200.

Catholice reformare. A katolikus egyház a fejedelemség korában, szerk. Diósi Dávid–Marton József, Kolozsvár–Budapest 2018, 175–237.

Hadtörténeti Közlemények 131 (2018) 3, 662–679.

Lymbus. Magyarságtudományi Forrásközlemények (2018) 155–192.

Lymbus 2019, Magyarságtudományi Forrásközlemények, Budapest (2019) 85–116.

Politikai nyelvek a 17. század első felének Magyarországán, szerk. Kármán Gábor–Zászkaliczky Márton, Budapest 2019, 85–118.

Hadtörténelmi Közlemények 132 (2019), 765–782.

"...ugy irhassak, mint volt..." Ünnepi tanulmányok a 65 esztendős Tóth Sándor László tiszteletére (szerk.: Bagi Zoltán Péter) Szeged (2019) 139–149.

Lymbus. Magyarságtudományi Közlemények 2020, 95–146.

Európa elfeledett hadszíntere. A tizenöt éves háború és Magyarország (1591–1606), szerk. Kanász Viktor–Nagy L. István, Budapest 2021. 91–106.

Dögvészkalauz. Járványok és gyógyításuk története az ókortól napjainkig, szerk. Czeferner Dóra–Fedeles Tamás, Pécs 2021, 95–104.

Lymbus. Magyarságtudományi Forrásközlemények 20 (2022), 263–284.

Egyháztörténeti Szemle 23 (2022) 7–29.

Magyarország és a Római Szentszék II. (CVH I/21), Budapest–Róma 2022, 211–227.

Az egyháztörténet-írás története Magyarországon, szerk. Fazekas Csaba–Rada János, Miskolc 2022, 178–186.

Elsüllyedt Mohács. Újabb tanulmányok a mohácsi csatával kapcsolatos kutatások eredményeiről, szerk. Varga Szabolcs, Budapest 2023, 131–136.

Gesta: fiatal miskolci történészek folyóirata 21 (2023) 38–44.

A jezsuiták szerepe a kolozsvári felsőoktatásban (1581–1773), Egyetemtörténeti tanulmányok 1, szerk. Pál József, Szeged 2023, 25–35.

Temetetlen Mohács. Az 1526. és az 1697. évi csata új kutatási eredményei, szerk. Varga Szabolcs, Budapest 2024, 155–163.

Fraknói Emlékkönyv: Fraknói Vilmos (1843–1924) püspök, történész, a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia főtitkárának emlékezete. Halálának 100. évfordulóján, szerk. Kanász Viktor–Tusor Péter, (CVH I/24), Budapest–Róma 2024, 609–653.

 

Tanulmányok az 1526. évi mohácsi csatáról, szerk. Kovács István–Varga Szabolcs, Budapest–Pécs 2025, 267–280.

Certamen XII. Előadások a Magyar Tudomány Napján az Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület I. Szakosztályában, szerk. Egyed Emese–Pakó Klára–Pakó László–Weisz Attila, Kolozsvár 2025, 163–179.

Studies in foreign languages

Incorrupta monumenta ecclesiam defundunt, a cura di: Andreas Gottsmann, Pierantonio Piatti, Andreas E. Rehberg, Città del Vaticano 2018, 889–901.

Eastern European History Review Special issue. Central and South-Eastern Europe between the Christian and Ottoman worlds: conflits, encounters, and compromises (XVI–XVIII. centuries) 5 (2022) 59–72.

Dimensioni e problemi della ricerca storica 2 (2022) 37–54.

Spaces for Diplomacy. Prague, the Court of Emperor Rudolf II (1576–1612) and Diplomats, ed. Tomáš Černušák–Jiří Hrbek–Štěpán Vácha, Berlin–Boston 2025, 99–117.

Protagonisti e collaboratori: Studiosi provenienti dall'Europa centro-orientale presso gli archivi della Santa Sede tra il 1881 e il 1918, ed. Alessandro Boccolini–Matteo Sanfilippo–Tusor Péter, Viterbo 2025, 223–233.

Reviews

Egyháztörténeti Szemle (2020) 4, 141–147. 

Magyar Könyvszemle 136 (2020) 4, 361–369. 

Világtörténet 11 [43] (2021) 639–646.

Verbum. Analecta neolatina 24 (2023) 217–220.

Source editions

Források a 17. századi magyar politikai gondolkodás történetéhez III. (szerk. Báthory Orsolya–Kármán Gábor–Kruppa Tamás–Zászkaliczky Márton), Budapest 2024.

 

Ciro Spontone: A magyar királyok tettei, kiad. Kanász Viktor–Kruppa Tamás, Budapest 2025.

On 15 September 2026, the Thúry György Museum in Nagykanizsa organised a conference entitled Mohács 500 at the Medgyaszay House. The Fraknói Research Group, which has been actively involved in research on Mohács for several years, was represented at the event by Viktor Kanász and Tamás Kruppa, who both delivered lectures.

One of the principal research priorities of the Fraknói Research Group’s work in the Vatican Archives is the study of relations between the Holy See and Hung

The latest volume of the Collectanea Vaticana Hungariae series (CVH I/26) has been published under the title In the Shadow of Mohács: Two Decades in the History of Hungarian–Ottoman Affairs (1519–1541). The work is the book version of the author’s doctoral dissertation submitted to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from the University of Szeged in 2024 and successfully defended in 2025 under the title 'From the Jagiellonians to the Szapolyais: Two Decades in the History of the Kingdom of Hungary (1519–1541)'.
On 7 November 2025, a conference entitled “MTA 200 – Mohács 500. The Latest Research in Archaeology, Anthropology and History” was held at the headquarters of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences - HAS (MTA, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, bicentennial conference). The event was organized by the Pécs and Szeged Regional Committees of the HAS as part of the Academy’s bicentennial celebrations. The Fraknói Research Group was represented by Tamás Fedeles, who also took part in organizing the conference, as well as by Tamás Kuppa and Gábor Nemes, both of whom delivered papers in the history section chaired by Academician László Solymosi.

On 23–24 September 2025, the conference Western Transdanubia Before and After Mohács took place at the Nádasdy Cultural Centre in Sárvár.

Under the title “We have not come to celebrate, but to pay the tribute of reverence …”, an academic conference on the Battle of Mohács and its age was convened by the Municipality of Székesfehérvár, the Institute and Museum of Military History, and János Kodolányi University within the framework of the Royal Days of Székesfehérvár, held on 18–19 August 2025. Bringing together many of the foremost figures in Mohács scholarship, the conference represented a landmark contribution to ongoing research into one of the pivotal moments of Central European history. The Fraknói Research Group also participated, presenting under the chairmanship of Péter Tusor a dedicated panel on the ecclesiastical dimensions of Mohács on the morning of the second day.

Tamás Kruppa, Senior Research Fellow of the Research Group, gave a lecture in Monor on 22 June entitled The Bocskai Uprising and the Peace of Vienna.

The public defense of Tamás Kruppa’s doctoral dissertation for the title of Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (DSc), entitled From the Jagiello

On 8–9 December 2024, the international conference ANTEMURALE CHRISTIANITATIS.

Between 7 and 9 November 2024, the Conference of Young Scholars (FIKON), entitled Temporality and Memory: Past and Future in Antiquity, was held at

On 16–17 October 2024, the conference entitled Peaces and Treaties.

The centenary year organized by the Research Group named after Vilmos Fraknói was built on two main pillars: the commemorative conference held in early May in Nagyvárad and the international symposium in Rome. The annotated version of the presentations from the Nagyvárad conference, supplemented with additional studies, writings, and appendices, was published on October 16, 2024, as volume I/24 of the CVH series.
Fraknói Centenary (1924–2024) The prominent international event of the Fraknói centenary took place on June 6, 2024, at the Aventine headquarters of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani, next to the headquarters of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. At the scientific conference titled Protagonisti e Collaboratori – Studiosi provenienti dall’Europa centro-orientale presso gli archivi della Santa Sede tra il 1881 e il 1918 (Protagonists and Collaborators - Researchers from Central and Eastern Europe at the Holy See Archives between 1881 and 1918), in addition to members of the Fraknói Research Group, Italian, Austrian, Czech, Polish, and Croatian researchers also gave presentations.
The venue and theme of the Fraknói Academy, held for the tenth time, is justified by the centenary of the death of Vilmos Fraknói (1843–1924) in 2024. Vilmos Fraknói was the main organizer of Hungarian historical research in the Vatican following the gradual opening of the Holy See's collections from 1881. He initiated the Monumenta Vaticana Hungariae, and in the 1890s, using the income from his ecclesiastical benefices, he established the Hungarian Historical Institute in Rome as a private institution. He did not work alone; several others joined the efforts. The roles of his collaborators are important, yet their activities in Rome have not been thoroughly examined by historical scholarship.There is also much to be said about Fraknói Vilmos's years in Rome, his plans, and especially his legacy.
The Fraknói Research Group attaches particular importance to the dissemination of the results of its fundamental scholarly research. In this spirit, during 2023, and on the basis of an agreement concluded with the historical magazine Múlt-kor, members of the Fraknói Research Group published two articles.
After last year's event in Pécs, on December 7, 2023, the Mohács500 conference took place in Mohács, organized with the collaboration of the Fraknói Research Group. During this conference, presentations were given by Tamás Fedeles, Nemes Gábor, Kruppa Tamás, and Kanász Viktor.
The members of the Fraknói Research Group presented their Vatican-related research on Transylvania in a separate section at the event titled "Hungarian Science Day in Transylvania 2023," upon the invitation of the Transylvanian Museum Association on November 18. In the headquarters of the Transylvanian Museum Association, four members of the Research Group held their presentations under the chairmanship of Zsolt Bogdándi.

The Institute of History of the Czech Academy, in cooperation with several institutions, organised a scientific conference in Prague on 26-27 September 2023,

Tamás Kruppa gave an interview to Vatican Radio about the documentary edition of Ferenc Forgách edited by him (Documenta of Ferenc Forgách, CVH II/9). In the course of the interview, he spoke with Fr László Vértesaljai about the former Archbishop of Esztergom, discussing his personality, historical significance, and his role in the history of Hungarian Catholicism, with particular reference to the published source material.
The Fraknói Research Group is the intellectual heir and successor to the work of the eponymous Vilmos Fraknói. Its historical series, the Collectanea Vaticana Hungariae, published since 2004, is a continuation of Fraknói's Monumenta Vaticana Hungariae.  The essence of the research group's work is that while the place of research and presentation of results is predominantly Rome, the processing work is carried out in domestic research centres, above all at the PPKE (Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Budapest).

On 24 May 2023, the Institute of History of the University of Miskolc organised a conference entitled Political, Social and Cultural Alliances in the Early M

Central and South-Eastern Europe between the Christian and Ottoman worlds: conflicts, encounters and compromises (XVI-XVIII centuries) is the title

On 25 March 2023, an interview with Tamás Kruppa, Senior Research Fellow of the Fraknói Research Group, was broadcast on Vatican Radio. The conversation focused on his volume Papal Troops in Hungary (1595–1597, 1601), published as CVH I/17.
On 13 December 2022, the latest volume of the Collectanea Vaticana Hungariae (CVH I/21) series, Hungary and the Holy See of Rome III, was presented in the Bogdánffy Szilárd Hall of the Central Seminary in Budapest.

On 2 December 2022, a conference was organised in the building of the Pécs Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, co-organised by the Frakn

On 21 November, the VIIth academic workshop seminar of the Fraknói Research Group took place at Brenner János Theological College in Győr, where Gábor Nemes

On 9th November 2022, the conference "The role of the Jesuit Order in the development and later operation of the University of Kolozsvár" was held i

On 22 September 2022, the book „I Barberini e l’Europa”  was presented in Budapest, in the Chapter Hall of the Central Seminary, in the framework of an international cooperation between Péter Tusor and Alessandro Boccolini. The book contains the work of twelve internationally renowned historians who have studied the Barberini period and the early modern era.

Stephen Bathory-Báthory István-Stefan Batory: Shape and Effect in International Comparison a conference on the reign of the Transylvanian

The Fraknói Summer Academy was held for the eighth time this year. This time, following the principle of "back to the roots", the event took place in Piliscsaba, the former campus of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University.
On July 1st 2022, the Fraknói Research Group participated in the annual event of the medievalists, represented by Gábor Nemes, Viktor Kanász and György Sági, as in the previous year.
To discuss the latest research results of the Frakno Research Group in the Vatican, Vatican Radio hosted Péter Tusor, Tamás Fedeles, Tamás Kruppa, Gábor Nemes and the Research Group's Vatican Research Resident, Katalin Nagy. During the interview, senior research fellow and university professor Tamás Fedeles spoke in detail about his recently published book, the publication of his half-decade-long collection of material in the archives of the Apostolic Camera. Then Péter Tusor evaluated the 2017-2022 MTA/ELKH funded research grant period. He briefly presented the plans and goals of the Research Group for the new cycle (2022-2027) following the successful reapplication.

The Fraknói Research Group held it's fifth workshop on 27 October 2021 at University of Szeged's Kuno Klebelsberg Library in Szeged where the volume 

Szvorényi Róbert "Jacobinus János élete és életműve, a Brevis enarratio historiográfiai és történeti háttere, valamint szövegének utóélete" címmel védte meg summa cum laude minősítéssel értekezését a katolikus egyetemen 2021. június 21-én. A doktori cselekményben a Fraknói Kutatócsoport több tagja is részt vett. Tusor Péter tudományos tanácsadó témavezetőként, Kruppa Tamás tudományos főmunkatárs opponensként, Rev. Gárdonyi Máté és Szovák Kornél külső tagok a bizottság elnökeként és tagjaként kapcsolódott be a fokozatszerzési eljárásba.
On 31th of May 2021. two members of our Research Group Tamás Kruppa and Viktor Kanász participated at online conference Európa elfeledett hadszíntere – A tizenöt éves háború és Magyarország (1591–1606). The conference focused on Long Turkish War's Hungarian battlefield.

Könyvbemutatót tartott 2020.

Series Collectanea Vaticana Hungariae new volume (CVH I/17) has been publi

Demeter Naprághy, Archbishop of Kalocsa (1608–1619) and bishop of Győr (1607–1619) was remembered at the conference "Labore et patientia", which was&nbs

The international historian community of Rome could finally get to meet with the new monumental volumes "Incorrupta monumenta Ecc

The Fraknói Research Group organised the presentation of the book "La santa impresa. Le crociate del papa in Ungheria (1595-16

Several of our research group's members gave lectures at the conference "György Thúry Memorial Conference" in Nagykanizsa on 9 October 2018.

The first workshop seminar of the Fraknói Research Group was organised at the University of Pécs on 11 October 2017.

On 27 September 2017, senior research fellow Tamás Kruppa habilitated at the University of Pécs with a result of 93% summa cum laude.

Az idén Pécsen megrendezésre került Országos Tudományos Diákköri Ko

Erdély római katolikus főpásztorainak 1716. évi visszatéréséről emlékeztek meg 2016. október 20–21-én a gyulafehérvári várban.

A kedvező forrásadottságoknak köszönhetően a nemzetközi és benne a magyar vatikáni történeti kutatások egyik kiemelt területe a pápai diplomácia működésének