Tibor Frank

Tibor Frank (3 February 1948 – 15 September 2022) was a Hungarian historian who was professor of history at the School of English and American Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE).

He served as member on the board of Historical Abstracts[6] (Santa Barbara—Oxford, 1989–93, 2000–2008), Nationalities Papers[7] (New York, 1989–2009), Polanyiana[8] (Budapest, 1994–), the European Journal of American Culture[9] (Nottingham, England, 1998–) and Külügyi Szemle[10] (and Foreign Policy Review, 2011–).

[13] Between 2007 and 2015 he was deputy chairperson of Magyar Történelmi Társulat (Hungarian Historical Society),[14][15] in 2015 he was elected chairman of the editorial board of its journal Századok.

[16] Between 1988 and 1990 Tibor Frank was a Fulbright Visiting Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and also at UCLA.

In 1990–91 he was invited to the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) as a distinguished visiting professor of history sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

[18] His Humboldt Prize of 2002 took him to the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)[19] in Berlin, Germany.