Carlile Aylmer Macartney
FBA (1895–1978) was a
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academic specialising in the history and politics of East-Central
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and in particular the history of
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and
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. He was also a supporter of Hungarian interests and causes in the
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Career
His education included time at
Winchester College
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(where he was a scholar) and at
Trinity College, Cambridge
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Macartney was a research fellow of ]All Souls College
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, Oxford
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. From 1936 to 1946 he was in charge of the Hungarian section of the Foreign Office
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Research Department. From 1951 to 1957 he held the Chair of International Relations at the University of Edinburgh
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Macartney was a corresponding member of the Austrian and Hungarian academies, and in 1965 he became a member of the British Academy
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.
Personal
Macartney was the son of painter and orientalist Carlile Henry Hayes Macartney
Carlile Henry Hayes Macartney (1842–1924) was a British painter and Orientalist, noted for his portraits.
Life and career
Macartney was born on 3 March 1842 to Maxwell Macartney, a doctor, and Maxwell's first wife Emily Eliza Hayes.
He was ...
(1842-1924).[
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Works
*''The Social Revolution in Austria'' (Cambridge, 1926).
*''The Magyars in the Ninth Century'' (Cambridge, 1930).
*''Refugees: The Work of the League'' (London, 1931).
*''Hungary'' (London, 1934).
*''National States and National Minorities'' (London, 1934).
*''Hungary and Her Successors: The Treaty of Trianon and Its Consequences'' (Oxford, 1937).
*''Studies on the Earliest Hungarian Historical Sources,'' 3 vols. (Budapest, 1938–51).
*''Problems of the Danube Basin'' (Cambridge, 1942).
*''The Medieval Hungarian Historians: A Critical and Analytical Guide'' (London, 1953).
*''October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929-1945'', 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1956).
*''Hungary: A Short History'' (Edinburgh, 1962).
*''Independent Eastern Europe: A History'' (London & New York, 1962) o-written with A. W. Palmer
*''The Habsburg Empire, 1790–1918'' (London, 1968).
*''Maria Theresa and the House of Austria'' (London, 1969).
*''The House of Austria: The Later Phase, 1790-1918'' (Edinburgh, 1978).
*''Studies on Early Hungarian and Pontic History,'' edited by Lóránt Czigány and László Péter László Péter (July 8, 1929 – June 6, 2008) was Emeritus Professor of Hungarian History at the University of London. He completed his first degree at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest after which he worked as an archivist and teacher. ...
(Aldershot, 1998) ollected articles
References
1895 births
1978 deaths
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford
Fellows of the British Academy
Recipients of the Grand Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria
20th-century British historians
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