The Department of Medieval Studies and the Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (CEMS) very warmly congratulate Dr András Németh (MA ’04, PhD ’10), presently a curator of medieval manuscripts at the Széchenyi National Library, Budapest, for having been awarded a highly competitive two-year postdoctoral research position at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Wissenschaftsgeschichte) in Berlin, commencing autumn 2011. Dr Németh will join a project team led by Professors Anthony Grafton (Princeton University) and Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) researching ‘The Learned Practices of Canonical Texts: a cross-cultural comparison’.
At the Max Planck Institute, inter alia Dr Németh will transform his groundbreaking dissertation on Byzantine emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos, ‘Imperial Systematization of the Past: Emperor Constantine VII and his Historical Excerpts’, into a monograph.
In 2009, Dr Németh became the co-organizer of an international symposium on ‘Centre and Periphery in the Age of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos: from De cerimoniis to De administrando imperio’, jointly hosted by CEU’s Center for Hellenic Traditions and the Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
We wish Dr Németh every success for his sojourn at the Max Planck Institute.