Pál Engel (27 February 1938 – 21 August 2001) was a Hungarian medievalist historian and archivist, and member of the

Hungarian Academy of Sciences The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( hu, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, MTA) is the most important and prestigious learned society of Hungary. Its seat is at the bank of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akadémia utca. Its ma ...

. He served as General Director of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences between 1996 and 1997. Despite Engel being an

autodidact Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) or self-education (also self-learning and self-teaching) is education without the guidance of masters (such as teachers and professors) or institutions (such as schools). Generally, autodidacts are individua ...

historian (who had no degree in history), he became a preeminent medievalist, and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Works

*''Magyarország világi archontológiája, 1301–1457, I–II.'' Secular Archontology of Hungary, 1301–1457, Volume I–II" História, MTA Történettudományi Intézete. Budapest (1996) *''The Realm of St Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary, 895–1526''. I.B. Tauris Publishers (2001)

Sources

* 20th-century Hungarian historians 1938 births 2001 deaths Writers from Budapest Historians of Hungary Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Burials at Farkasréti Cemetery {{Hungary-historian-stub