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Manuscript Practices and the Making of Exile Communities in the Early Modern Period
International Conference, 14–16 April 2026, Academic Conference Centre, Husova 4a, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague Department of Comenius Studies and...
Prezentace knihy "Jako bych se octl na obrovském staveništi"
4. března 2026 od 17.00 hodin v kavárně Božská lahvice (Bílkova 122/6, Praha 1). Oddělení pro komeniologii a intelektuální dějiny raného novověku FLÚ AV ČR,...
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Head of the Department
Work Position: Research Fellow and Editor of Czech works by Johann Amos Comenius, interpretation of Comenius' works from literary point of view.
Research Fields of Interest:
- entertaining literature of 17th – 18th century
- early modern Czech language drama
- short narrative stories
kancelář/office: 311a
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Work position: Research Fellow and Editor of Latin works of Jan Amos Comenius, interpretation of Comenius´ work namely from philological aspect, research of Comeniana and secondary sources.
Research Fields of Interest:
- early modern philosophy
- critical edition and interpretation of Comenius´s Latin texts
- book and reading culture in early modern period
kancelář/office: 308a
tel.: +420 221 183 314
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2025–2027: Member of the research team of the Manuscript Practices and the Textuality of Exile Communities from the Czech Lands in the 1620s and 1630s project.
kancelář/office: 110a
tel.: +420 221 183 319
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Work position: Research Fellow
Fields of Specialization:
cultural history; history of migration, exile, and diasporas; translation history; gift exchange; gender and women's history; history of religion and asceticism; theory of history
kancelář/office: 110a
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Work position: Research Fellow
Research fields of interest:
History of early modern period, intellectual history, history and philosophy of science, visualizations of the historical data, early modern scholarly correspondence
kancelář/office: 110a
tel.: +420 221 183 311
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Research fields of interest:
cooperation in the editing of J. A. Comenii Opera omnia; reception of classical antiquity and cultural history of Scandinavia
kancelář/office: 308a
tel.: +420 221 183 340
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deputy head
Work position: Research Fellow and Editor of Acta Comeniana
Research Fields of Interest:
- late Renaissance and early modern philosophy
- history of the idea of perfect language
- history of metaphors, metaphorology
- pansophism and encyclopaedism: John Amos Comenius and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
kancelář/office: 101a
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Work position: Research fellow
Research Fields of Interest:
- theory and history of the historical writing (since the 17th century)
- social and cognitive aspects of textuality; anthropology of the literature
- social memory studies (especially in the connection with J. A. Comenius)
kancelář/office: 110a
tel.: +420 221 183 319
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Work position: Senior researcher
Fields of specialization:
- Philosophy of Comenius within the context of European intellectual history
- Comenius' metaphysics, ethics, philosophy of education, philosophy of non-violence (irenicism)
- Jan Patočka's Comenius-studies
kancelář/office: 308a
tel.: +420 221 183 340
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Work position: Research fellow and Editor of Latin works in critical edition J. A. Comenii Opera omnia.
Research Fields of Interest:
- early modern correspondence
- early modern Bohemian poetry composed in Latin and Greek
- multilingualism of early modern literature, code-switching from Latin to Humanist Greek and to vernaculars
- editing early modern texts (manuscripts and early modern prints including incunabula)
kancelář/office: 101a
tel.: +420 221 183 311
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