Carlile Aylmer Macartney FBA (1895–1978) was a British academic specialising in the history and politics of East-Central

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and in particular the history of

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and

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. He was also a supporter of Hungarian interests and causes in the

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Career

His education included time at

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(where he was a scholar) and at

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. Macartney was a research fellow of

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. From 1936 to 1946 he was in charge of the Hungarian section of the

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Research Department. From 1951 to 1957 he held the Chair of International Relations at the

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

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. In 1974, Macartney was awarded the Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria.

Personal

Macartney was the son of painter and orientalist Carlile Henry Hayes Macartney (1842-1924). 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.

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) o-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) ollected articles

References

1895 births 1978 deaths Academics of the University of Edinburgh Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford Fellows of the British Academy Recipients of the Grand Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria 20th-century British historians {{UK-historian-stub