The History of the Free Church of Scotland’’s Mission to the Jews in Budapest and Its Impact on the Reformed Church of Hungary: 1841-1914

The Author: Ábrahám Kovács read his Ph.D. at Edinburgh University in 2003. He also holds degrees in History from Lajos Kossuth University in Debrecen, in Theology from Debrecen Reformed University and in Religious Studies from Princeton Theological Seminary. He studied also at Princeton University, and at the University of Tübingen. Most recently he was awarded of the Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowship by the University of Edinburgh and the Eötvös Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Science. The author is now a Senior Lecturer at Debrecen Reformed University, a Research Fellow of the Institute of Habsburg History (Budapest), and a Research Fellow at the Protestant Institute for Mission Studies in Budapest. He is currently the secretary of the Hungarian Association for the Science of Religion and acting secretary of the CEEAMS.