In the summer of 2022, we published a research report based on a photograph of Count József Cziráky taken in 1957 and its adventurous journey. The account of the picture found in our collection at that time was further elaborated during our research this autumn so
In mid-September, two members of our Foundation took part in a five-day research trip to the Hanns Seidel Foundation’s archives in Munich with the aim of finding written and audiovisual material related to Otto von Habsburg.
Gergely Fejérdy, Deputy Scientific Director of our Foundation, carried out research and collected sources in Brussels in the Archives Diplomatiques de Royaume de Belgique Ministère des Affaires étrangeres (Diplomatic Archives of the Kingdom of Belgium’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Among the diplomatic records pertaining to the history of Belgian-Hungarian relations in the 20th century, he uncovered documents primarily connected to the Habsburg family, particular
In preparation for the 100th anniversary of the death of Otto von Habsburg’s father, Charles I, the last Austrian Emperor and King of Hungary (as Charles IV), three of our Foundation’s colleagues, Szilveszter Dékány, Bence Kocsev and Gergely István Szűts, conducted a short research in the public collections of Vienna.
