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Franz Horváth

University of Heidelberg

Jewish-non-Jewish Relations in the City of Temesvár in Hungary (1850-1915)

Franz Horváth is a historian specializing in Eastern European and Jewish history. He studied Medieval and Modern History as well as Philosophy at the University of Heidelberg from 1997 to 2002 and earned his PhD in Eastern European History in 2006. His doctoral thesis, Jewish–Non-Jewish Relations in the City of Temesvár in Hungary (1850–1915), received the Fritz and Helga Exner Dissertation Prize from the Southeast Europe Society in 2007. Following research positions at the University of Southampton and postdoctoral studies supported by the German National Academic Foundation and the Leo Baeck Institute in London, he completed teacher training in Koblenz. Since 2012, he has been a teacher at IKS Rüsselsheim and has served as a senior teacher since 2017.
 

1997-2002: Studies of Medieval and Modern History as well as Philosophy in Heidelberg

2006: Doctorate in Eastern European History in Heidelberg

2007: Fritz and Helga Exner Dissertation Prize of the Southeast Europe Society

2006-2007: Research associate at the University of Southampton

2007-2008: Postdoc scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation and the Leo Baeck Institute (London)

2010-2012: Teacher traineeship in Koblenz

Since 2012: Teacher at the IKS Rüsselsheim (since 2017, a senior teacher)

Publications (books only)

 Zwischen Ablehnung und Anpassung. Die politischen Strategien der ungarischen Minderheitselite in Rumänien 1931–1940. München 2007, 441 pages.

Bildung und Integration. Eine kurze Geschichte der Immanuel-Kant-Schule in Rüsselsheim. Berlin 2020, 360 p.

“Paál Árpád: Válogatott írások” [Árpád Paál: Ausgewählte Schriften], Csíkszereda 2020, 280 p. (co-edited with Nándor Bárdi).

Kommunist – Jude – Ungar? Leben und Werk des heimatlosen Philosophen Ernő Gáll. Wiesbaden 2023, 240 p.

György Bretter: Parabeln. Essays über Bewusstsein, Tat und Vollendung. Berlin 2024, 170 p. (translation and foreword)

Rüsselsheimer Kulturgeschichten. Beiträge zur Geschichte Rüsselsheims im 20. Jahrhundert. Heidelberg u.a. 2025, 120 p.

Kommunista-zsidó-magyar: Gáll Ernö, a hontalan filozófus (1917-2000). Kolozsvár 2025, 327 p.

 

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