Gyula Kristó (11 July 1939 – 24 January 2004) was a Hungarian historian and medievalist, and also a member of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( , MTA) is Hungary’s foremost and most prestigious learned society. Its headquarters are located along the banks of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akadémia utca. The Academy's primar ...
.
Life
Gyula Kristó was born in
Orosháza
Orosháza is a city situated in the westernmost part of Békés (county), Békés county, Hungary, on the Békés ridge bordered by the rivers River Maros, Maros and River Körös, Körös. Orosháza is an important culture, cultural, educational ...
on 11 July 1939. He studied at the
József Attila University Szeged between 1957 and 1962.
Awards
*For the 1300-Year-Old Bulgaria (1981)
*Albert Szentgyörgyi Prize (1994)
Works
*''A vármegyerendszer kialakulása Magyarországon''
he Development of the Counties in Hungary(1988)
*''A magyar állam megszületése''
he Birth of the Hungarian State
Sources
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20th-century Hungarian historians
Historians of Hungary
Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
University of Szeged alumni
1939 births
2004 deaths
People from Orosháza
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