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Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies (IdGL)
Mohlstr. 18
72074 Tübingen
Márta Fata studied history and German in Greifswald and journalism in Budapest. She worked as a high school teacher and a journalist in Pécs. After completing her doctoral studies at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, she received her PhD in 1991 with a dissertation on the German minority in Hungary during the interwar period. In 2011, she completed her habilitation at the University of Tübingen with a thesis on the mercantilist migration policy of Emperor Joseph II in the Habsburg Monarchy. She was awarded the Venia Legendi (teaching qualification) for the field of Modern History. Following a fellowship at the Institute for European Studies in Budapest in 1991/92, she worked at the institute from 1992 until her retirement in 2025. Since 2015, she has been an associate professor at the Department of Modern History (Early Modern Period).
Her research focuses on the history of the Early Modern period, migration history, the Reformation and religious history, education, knowledge and cultural transfer, minority history, memory culture, the history of the Habsburg Monarchy, Hungary, and the Danube Swabians.