Dr. Klaniczay is University Professor of Medieval Studies and Fellow of the Centre for Religious Studies at the Central European University (CEU), in Budapest, Hungary.
He was born in 1950.
He graduated in History, Medieval Studies, and English Philology in 1974 from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, and completed his postgraduate studies in 1976 in Paris with Jacques Le Goff (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) and Michel Mollat (Sorbonne). He received his Dr.Phil. at ELTE (Hungary) in 1983, and was Cand. Sci. at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1994. In 2001 he was awarded Dr. Habil. at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and then Dr. Sci. of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2005.
In 2014 he was Correspondant étranger de l‘Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, Paris.





