Gyula Pápay
Gyula Pápay (born July 14, 1939 in Gyöngyös , Hungary ) is a Hungarian historian and cartographer who worked for a long time in the GDR and Germany.
The son of a teacher graduated from high school in Székesfehérvár in 1957 and studied history, cartography and geography at the Universities of Debrecen and Budapest from 1957 to 1963 . He graduated in 1962 with a degree in geography and history. The graduate cartographer followed in 1963. In 1967 he received his doctorate in Budapest. In 1988 he completed his habilitation at the University of Rostock . From 1963 to 1979 Pápay was a lecturer and editor in the VEB " Hermann Haack Geographisch-Kartographische Anstalt Gotha". From 1979 onwards he worked at the history section in the history of science department at the University of Rostock.
From 1993 to 1996 he was a private lecturer in Rostock for the fundamentals of historical science and the history of science. From 1996 to 2004, he taught in Rostock as an adjunct professor for the basics of history and historical cartography. There Pápay also headed the Institute for Multimedia and Data Processing in the Humanities at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Rostock. After his retirement in 2004, the institute was dissolved and continued as the multimedia and data processing division under the direction of Stefan Kroll. He is a member of the German Society for Cartography and since 2005 an honorary member of the Hungarian Geographical Society . His main research interests are history, historical cartography and historical information systems.
Fonts
Monographs
- Studies to develop the scientific discipline of cartography. Rostock 1988.
Editorships
- with Kersten Krüger, Stefan Kroll : City history and historical information systems. The Baltic region in the 17th and 18th centuries. Contributions to the scientific colloquium in Rostock on March 21 and 22, 2002. Lit, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8258-7103-7 .
- Images of Science - Science of Images. Rostock 2005, ISBN 3-86009-289-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Gyula Pápay in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature about Gyula Pápay in the state bibliography MV
- Works by Gyula Pápay in the state bibliography MV
- Entry on Gyula Pápay in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pápay, Gyula |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gyöngyös , Hungary |