Peter Techet

University for Continuing Education Krems / Institute for Danube Region and Central Europe (Austria).  

Peter Techet has completed his studies in Law in Budapest (Hungary) and Munich (Germany), as well as in History at Regensburg (Germany). He earned dual PhDs: one in Modern European History from The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and another in Law and Political Sciences from Péter Pázmány Catholic University in Budapest.

From 2012 to 2014, he served as a research associate at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg, followed by a position at the Leibniz Institute for European History in Mainz from 2014 to 2018. He has also worked at the University of Freiburg from 2020 to 2024 and has been affiliated with the University of Zurich since 2022. Currently, he is a research associate at the University for Continuing Education in Krems and at the Institute for Danube Region and Central Europe in Vienna.  

Peter Techet has participated in several visiting fellowships, including at the Austrian Historical Institute in Rome, New York University, the University of Genoa, and the University of Lucerne. He has published over 100 works focused on legal history, political theory, the history of East Central Europe, and the history of the Habsburg Monarchy.