The Most Famous
HISTORIANS from Hungary
This page contains a list of the greatest Hungarian Historians. The pantheon dataset contains 339 Historians, 2 of which were born in Hungary. This makes Hungary the birth place of the 34th most number of Historians behind Ireland and Azerbaijan.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Hungarian Historians of all time. This list of famous Hungarian Historians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. İbrahim Peçevi (1574 - 1650)
With an HPI of 49.50, İbrahim Peçevi is the most famous Hungarian Historian. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
İbrahim Peçevi or Peçuyli İbrahim Efendi or (in Bosnian) Ibrahim Alajbegović Pečevija (1572–1650) (Ottoman Turkish: پچویلی ابراهیم افندى ) was an Ottoman Bosnian historian-chronicler of the Ottoman Empire.
2. Andreas Alföldi (1895 - 1981)
With an HPI of 46.45, Andreas Alföldi is the 2nd most famous Hungarian Historian. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
András (Andreas) Ede Zsigmond Alföldi (27 August 1895 – 12 February 1981) was a Hungarian historian, art historian, epigraphist, numismatist and archaeologist, specializing in the Late Antique period. He was one of the most productive 20th-century scholars of the ancient world and is considered one of the leading researchers of his time. Although some of his research results are controversial, his work in several areas is viewed as groundbreaking. Professor Alföldi contributed significantly to the massive Cambridge Ancient History, including Vol. 12: The Imperial Crisis and Recovery. He became a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1955.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as historians born between 1574 and 1895. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased historians include İbrahim Peçevi and Andreas Alföldi. As of April 2022, 2 new historians have been added to Pantheon including İbrahim Peçevi and Andreas Alföldi.
