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The aim of this study is to make some reflections concerning the connection between a segment of the German Begriffsgeschichte and the so-called “nationalism theories”. The article “Folk, Nation, Nationalismus, Masse”, which is one of the Geschichtliche Grundbegriff e’ longest articles, makes some fundamental statements about the national phenomenon and it seems to be interesting to look at the historiographic background of these statements by examining the impressive historiographic references used by the authors. In doing so, we can see that Koselleck and his co-authors make their conclusions without or rarely citing the the anglo-saxon works that are traditionally considered as the most relevant results of the theories of nationalism (especially the modernist and the ethnosymbolist perspectives). The fact that the authors of the article barely cite the anglo-saxon literature is even more interesting due to the considerable similarities and overlappings. These similarities involve for instance the genesis of nationalism and the concept of nation, the typology of these concepts, or the problem of the creation and transfers of the notions in question. Despite the fact that the method of Begriffsgeschichte is becoming a more and more important approach in the empirical researches concerning the national phenomenon, a lot of theoretical questions arise. This study tries to highlight the possible perspectives of such theoretical researches.

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During modern nation-building history books telling national history in the nation’s language are crucially important mediators (lieux de mémoires) for the transmission of cultural memory. Through the interpretations of the first Hungarian Christian king’s rule, the study examines the emplotment methods of the first printed and not anonymous Hungarian language history books. The narratives of authors belonging to different religious denominations clearly show the fragmentation of contemporary historical discourse along the boundaries of denominations. Denominational differences manifest themselves in all possible aspects in the consideration of the canonised ruler who had a crucial role in organizing religious infrastructure, culture and the state, and basically founded and renewed the nation and the society. While in the majority of Catholic textbooks the reader is confronted with the traditional myth of the first Hungarian Christian ruler, Protestants let him appear as pragmatic secular ruler who disrupted the nation’s organic organism by alien customs. Peculiarly, it is the only Hungarian language textbook written by an Israelite author that produces possible connecting links between the two different images of (Saint) Stephen and the nation. Anyhow, in some cases other authors break through constraints of denomination, too, and in relation to other historical periods one might positively talk about an “all-national perspective” and “the common possession of an undivided heritage” (E. Renan) considering Hungarian history books.