Mgr. Jakub Palko
Room: Š 403
E-mail: jakub.palkouniba.sk
PhDr. Jakub Palko, PhD., is a graduate of the Department of Slovak History at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava. In June 2022, under the supervision of Professor Ján Lukačka, he defended his doctoral dissertation entitled Hungary, Styria and Salzburg: On the Lesser-Known Chapters of the War of the Babenberg Succession (1246–1278). Since July 2022, he has been working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Slovak History, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, where he delivers lectures and leads seminars on the political, economic, social, and ecclesiastical history of Central Europe in the High and Late Middle Ages (1205–1526). Since 2020, he has regularly lectured at the University of the Third Age at the Centre for Continuing Education of Comenius University. His research focuses on Hungarian history in a Central European context, with an emphasis on the political, economic, and ecclesiastical history of the 13th century. To date, he has published two scholarly monographs: Prince Béla (1249–1269). Dux tocius Sclavoniae, Dalmaciae et Croaciae (2022) and Stephen I Gutkeled (†1259): Banus et dux tocius Sclavoniae et capitaneus Styriae (2024). In addition, he is the author of several academic studies, four of which have been published in indexed journals. He has completed research stays at the Stiftsbibliothek Klosterneuburg and the Austrian National Library in Vienna (Ernst Mach Grant of Aktion Österreich–Slowakei, 2020), as well as at the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, v. v. i. (National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic, 2024). In 2023, he was awarded a scholarship from the Jan Hus Educational Foundation. Since 2023, he has been a member of the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, and Secretary of the Doctoral Programme Board for Slovak History.