Carlile Aylmer Macartney

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Carlile Aylmer Macartney FBA (1895–1978) was a British academic specialising in the history and politics of East-Central Europe and in particular the history of Austria and Hungary. He was also a supporter of Hungarian interests and causes in the United Kingdom.[1]

Career

His education included time at Winchester College (where he was a scholar) and at Trinity College, Cambridge.[2]

Macartney was a research fellow of

Foreign Office Research Department. From 1951 to 1957 he was Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Edinburgh.[3]

Macartney was a corresponding member of the Austrian and Hungarian academies, and in 1965 he became a member of the

Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria.[4]

Personal

Macartney was the son of painter and orientalist Carlile Henry Hayes Macartney (1842-1924).[2][5] In 1923 he married Nedelya Mamacheva (Nedella Mamarchev-Macartney, 1898 – 1989) the daughter of a Bulgarian army colonel: there were no recorded children of this marriage.[2]

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) [co-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 (Aldershot, 1998) [collected articles].

References

  1. ^ a b Lojko, Miklos (1 January 1999). "C. A. Macartney and Central Europe" (pdf). European Revue of History, Vol. 6, No. 19, pp. 37-57. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  2. ^ a b c Who's Who 1958. London: A & C Black. 1958. I.
  3. doi:10.1017/S003767790009776X
    . Retrieved 27 October 2023.
  4. ^ "Reply to a parliamentary question" (PDF) (in German). p. 398. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
  5. ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 2 December 2013.


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