Carlile Aylmer Macartney

Carlile Aylmer Macartney FBA (1895–1978) was a British academic specialising in the history and politics of East-Central Europe and in particular the history of Austria and Hungary. He was also a supporter of Hungarian interests and causes in the United Kingdom.

Career His education included time at Winchester College (where he was a scholar) and at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Macartney was a corresponding member of the Austrian and Hungarian academies, and in 1965 he became a member of the British Academy.

Personal life Macartney was the son of painter and orientalist Carlile Henry Hayes Macartney (1842-1924). In 1923 he married Nedelya Mamacheva (Nedella Mamarchev-Macartney, 1898 – 1989) the daughter of a Bulgarian army colonel: there were no recorded children of this marriage.

Works The Social Revolution in Austria (Cambridge, 1926). The Magyars in the Ninth Century (Cambridge, 1930). Refugees: The Work of the League (London, 1931). Hungary (London, 1934). National States and National Minorities (London, 1934). Hungary and Her Successors: The Treaty of Trianon and Its Consequences (Oxford, 1937). Studies on the Earliest Hungarian Historical Sources, 3 vols. (Budapest, 1938–51). Problems of the Danube Basin (Cambridge, 1942). The Medieval Hungarian Historians: A Critical and Analytical Guide (London, 1953). October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929-1945, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1956). Hungary: A Short History (Edinburgh, 1962). Independent Eastern Europe: A History (London & New York, 1962) [co-written with A. W. Palmer]. The Habsburg Empire, 1790–1918 (London, 1968). Maria Theresa and the House of Austria (London, 1969). The House of Austria: The Later Phase, 1790-1918 (Edinburgh, 1978). Studies on Early Hungarian and Pontic History, edited by Lóránt Czigány and László Péter (Aldershot, 1998) [collected articles].