Principal Investigator of the project.
After studying Hungarian and Portuguese philology at ELTE, Budapest, Ágoston worked for ten years in non-academic jobs. He catalogued linguistics books, managed an academic bookstore for years and translated popular history books from French into Hungarian. Originally trained as a linguist, he formally embarked on a career as a historian in 2010, earning an MA (2012) and a PhD (2017) in Comparative History at Central European University. He held fellowships in Bucharest, Leiden, Florence, Sofia, Jena and Košice.
As a historian of East-Central and Southeastern Europe in the long nineteenth century, his main research interest lies in nationalism, language ideologies, linguistic standardization, language and educational policies. His work focuses on Dualist (late Habsburg) Transylvania. For BeNaSta, he researches Romanians in Dualist Hungary.
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