The editor of the blog

My name is Julianna Herman, I was born on December 28, 1999 in Debrecen. I completed my studies in Eger and have lived here since I was born. I graduated from Gárdonyi Géza Ciszterci High School in 2018, then I was admitted to Eszterházy Károly Catholic University. From 2018, I studied history as a basic major and obtained a historian-museologist diploma in 2021. From September of the same year, I continued my studies with a master's degree in history, specializing in digital social history and early modern times. In the summer of 2023, I obtained my master's degree in history. From September 2023, I am a doctoral student at the History Doctoral School of Eger specializing in the Early Modern Age.

My research period is the Middle Ages and the early modern period, and my research area is women's and family history. The topic of my research in Hungarian history is the investigation of the family history of the Veér family, as well as the biography of one of its female members, Teleki Mihályné Veér Judit. I have been taking this topic for the 6th year at the university, with which I was nominated twice to the Institutional Scientific Student Conference, where I finished on the third place firstly, and on the first secondly.

Years ago, I started to independently research the history of the Ottoman dynasty, especially the 195-year era called the Sultanate of Women, parallel to this, of course, learning the Turkish language. This blog was also inspired by my commitment to Ottoman history. As a Hungarian historian, I think it is important to get to know not only our own history, but also that of those with whom we have been in close contact for centuries. Regarding the Ottoman Empire, in our country research is mainly conducted on the Ottoman-Hungarian relations, the history of the Ottoman ruling family, the structure of the empire and its traditions are much less known. It is not surprising that there are so many misconceptions and fictions about it, since so few people know about it and delve deeply into the subject. It is my undisclosed intention to be the first among Hungarian historians to present, in my own book, the existence of an almost unbelievable era in the Ottoman Empire for Europeans: the era of Ottoman women taking power, the Sultanate of women.