Lajos Racz Author

Lajos Racz is a professor at Szeged University and visiting professor at the Central European University in Budapest. His research area is climate and environmental history, specialising in the climate history and environmental crises of the Carpathian Basin in the Early Modern and Modern periods. He has researched at the Historical Institute of Bern University, Masaryk University (Brno), the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies and the Rachel Carson Center in Munich. In 2004 he was awarded the title of doctorat of Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Racz was a founding member of the European Society for Environmental History (2001) and the International Society for Historical Climatology (2012).