Dóra Bobory holds a PhD in History from the Central European University. Her research interests include the history of alchemy, astrology, autobiography writing and collecting in the early modern period. She recently completed a degree in Museum and Heritage Practice at Victoria University of Wellington. Her biography of Boldizsár Batthyány (The Sword and the Crucible. Count Boldizsár Batthyány and Natural Philosophy in Sixteenth-Century Hungary) was published in 2009, and her edition of 305 letters from the count’s correspondence with an extensive apparatus (The Correspondence of Boldizsár Batthyány. The Everyday Life of an Early Modern Alchemist) appeared in 2019.