Erik Fugedi

Erik Fügedi (1916-1992) was among the first Hungarian historians to apply research methods similar to those used by the Annales school of French historiography. Consid-ered by postwar authorities to be politically unreliable, he spent more than a decade as a clerk in a canning plant. Nevertheless, he published extensively on medieval urbanization, patterns of inheritance in noble families, family structure, aristocracy, and fifteenth-century Hungarian prelates.