Lukáš Rybár

doc. PhDr. Lukas Rybar, PhD.

Lukas Rybar is a graduate of bachelor's, master's degree and doctoral studies in General history at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava. In 2014, he successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Shirvan and its role in the context of European trade in the 16th - 17th centuries”. He is an assistant professor at the Department of General History, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava. He focuses on the history of the Middle East (particularly the history of Iran and South Caucasus). 

Teaching Activities

Lectures on the history of the Near and Middle East. Conducts specialised courses and historical seminars on the subject, with an emphasis on international contacts between Middle Eastern and European countries in the Early Modern Period.

Schorlarly and Research Activities

·        History of the Caucasus and Iran in the 16th–19th centuries.

·        Trade and diplomatic relations of Safavid Iran with Central and Eastern European countries in the 16th–19th centuries.

·        The image of Islam and the Muslim Society in European travel literature of the 16th–19th centuries.

International Research Stays

·        Research stay at Baku State University, Baku, Azerbaijan (October – December 2010).

·        Research stay at M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia (February – June 2013).

·        One-month Persian language course, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran (August 2015).

·        Lecture stay (CEEPUS), Institute of History, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland (29 May – 2 June 2017).

·        Lecture stay (CEEPUS), Institute of History, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland (1 – 9 March 2019).

·        Erasmus+ mobility, Department of Near East, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic (19 – 24 May 2019).

·        Research stay at the Department of History, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran (8 December 2019 – 2 March 2020).

·        Research stay at the Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria (1 July – 31 December 2020).

·        Lecture stay at the Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies, Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, University of Alicante, Spain (Erasmus+ programme) (24 – 28 October 2022).

Editorial and Publishing Activities

From 2012 to 2022, editor of the departmental journal Acta Historica Posoniensia.
Member of the editorial boards of Acta Historica Posoniensia, Historia Medicinae Slovaca, and Byzantinoslovaca.

Major Monographs

DANIŠ, M. – RYBÁR, L.: Dejiny Azerbajdžanu (History of Azerbaijan). Bratislava: 2014.
RYBÁR, L.: Širván a jeho postavenie v európskom obchode (16.–17. storočie) (Shirvan and Its Role in European Trade (16th–17th Century)). Acta Historica Posoniensia XXVI. Bratislava: 2014.
DANIŠ, M. – BACHORÍKOVÁ, P. – MOYŠOVÁ, S. – RYBÁR, L.: Spomienky baróna Tótha na Turkov a Tatárov (The Memoirs of Baron Tóth on the Turks and the Tatars). Bratislava: 2022.
RYBÁR, L.: Cisár a šáh verzus sultán. Habsbursko-safíjovská diplomacia a protiosmanská aliancia (The Emperor and the Shah versus the Sultan: Habsburg–Safavid Diplomacy and the Anti-Ottoman Alliance). Bratislava: 2024.

Grants

·        VEGA 1/0370/13 Stereotypy ruskej politiky vo vzťahu k Európe v 19.–20. storočí (Stereotypes of Russian Policy toward Europe in the 19th–20th Centuries) (2013–2015)

·        VEGA 1/0324/17 Krymský polostrov v európskej diplomacii v období novoveku (The Crimean Peninsula in Early Modern European Diplomacy)

·        KEGA 042UK-4/2018 Vysokoškolská učebnica Dejiny európskeho stredoveku II. a III. (University Textbook: History of the European Middle Ages II and III)

·        KEGA 004UKF-4/2018 Európsky stredovek interaktívne (European Middle Ages – Interactive)

·        APVV-18-0333 Databáza historickej terminológie k dejinám Strednej Európy (Database of Historical Terminology for the History of Central Europe)

·        РНФ № 18-78-10052 Документальная история русского направления дипломатии Сефевидов (1501–1722 гг.) / RSF No. 18-78-10052 The Documentary History of the Russian Strand of Safavid Diplomacy (1501–1722)

·        NextGenerationEU through the Recovery and Resilience Plan for Slovakia. Project No. 09103-03-V04-00236. Between Europe and Asia. The role of Dagestan in the Russian-Safavid Diplomatic and Trade Relations (16th and 17th Centuries)

·        Erasmus+ – Cooperative Partnership. European Minorities in Urban Spaces: Mutual Recognition, Social Inclusion and Sense of Belonging

Membership in Scholarly Organizations

·        Member of the civic association Collegium Historicum. Spoločnosť priateľov histórie a humanitných vied, Kráľová pri Senci, Slovakia (Collegium Historicum: Society of Friends of History and the Humanities)

·        Member of the Slovenská historická spoločnosť pri SAV, Bratislava, Slovakia (Slovak Historical Society at the Slovak Academy of Sciences)

·        Member of Societas Iranologica Europaea (SIE), Cambridge, United Kingdom

·        Member of Association for Iranian Studies (2020–2022), Toronto, Canada