Miklós Zeidler

Miklós Zeidler is a habilitated Associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, lecturing in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Hungarian History within the Institute of Historical Studies. His principal research covers Hungary’s twentieth-century diplomatic, political and cultural history, with a strong focus on the Treaty of Trianon, inter-war revisionism, the League of Nations, and the memory-culture of irredentism.

Research interests: Professor Zeidler explores the consequences of the 1920 peace settlement for Hungarian state- and nation-building, the functioning of the League of Nations in East-Central Europe, and the interplay between sport, propaganda and national identity. His recent publications analyse financial stabilisation loans supervised by the League, the micro-history of border disputes, and the symbolic geography of inter-war Geneva.

Publication profile: Between 2020 and 2024 he authored studies on the making and reception of the Trianon treaty, the composition and lobbying activity of the Hungarian peace delegation, and the cultural mythology of irredentism. A recurrent methodological thread is the integration of diplomatic, urban and memory-history perspectives, often relying on previously unused Hungarian and League archives.

Campus presence: His office is located in the Humanities Faculty building at 1088 Budapest, Múzeum körút 6–8, room 216; he can be reached at zeidler.miklos@btk.elte.hu. Comprehensive publication lists are available on MTMT.hu and his doctoral data sheet at doktori.hu.