Antonín Bartoněk

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Antonín Bartoněk (born October 29, 1926 in Brno ; † May 30, 2016 ibid) was a Czech classical philologist and Mycenaeologist .

Bartoněk studied Classical Philology at Masaryk University in Brno. Since receiving his doctorate in 1952, he worked at this university, initially as an assistant, since 1962 as a lecturer, and since 1968 as a professor. Since 1990 he has also taught as a professor at the Palacký University in Olomouc . He held long-term visiting professorships at the universities of Vienna , Heidelberg , Graz , Amsterdam and Cambridge .

Bartoněk's main field of work was Mycenaeology and Greek linguistics. He was one of the leading experts in the field of deciphering and indexing linear B texts as well as in the field of ancient Greek dialects . His main work is the Handbook of Mycenaean Greek (2003).

Before the fall of the Iron Curtain , he was one of the few scholars of the Eastern Bloc who studied this field. Despite obvious difficulties, he was in contact with leading Western colleagues. Famous is a postcard he received from John Chadwick . It had passed the border controls even though it was written entirely in the linear B alphabet.

Bartoněk was also the editor of a cultural guide to the Austrian- Czech border region with the Waldviertel and Weinviertel on the Austrian side and South Moravia on the Czech side.

Fonts (selection)

In German or English

  • (Ed.): Studia Mycenaea. Proceedings of the Mycenaean symposium, Brno April 1966. Universita JE Purkyně, Brno 1968 (Opera Universitatis Purkynianae Brunensis, Facultas philosophica, 127), therein pp. 147–151: Mycenological Activities in the Countries of the "Eirene" Committee , and pp. 211-252: Appendix II: Mycenaean Bibliography of the "Eirene" countries , therein: German Democratic Republic , pp. 229-230, (online) (PDF); Soviet Union , pp. 243–248, (online) (PDF); Yugoslavia , pp. 249-252, (online) (PDF). - (Overview of the mycenaean activities in different countries of the Eastern Bloc including bibliographical overview)
  • Basics of the ancient Greek dialect early history. Institute for Linguistics at the University of Innsbruck, 1991 (Innsbruck Contributions to Linguistics: Lectures and Smaller Papers, 50).
  • The Classics in East Europe. In: Victor Bers, Gregory Nagy (Eds.): The Classics in East Europe. Essays on the Survival of a Humanistic Tradition. From the End of World War II to the Present. Worcester, Mass. 1996 (American Philological Association Pamphlet Series), pp. 55-84.
  • The Aegean pre-alphabetical scripts. In: Yoko Nishina (ed.): Europa et Asia Polyglotta - Languages ​​and Cultures. Festschrift for Robert Schmitt-Brandt on his 70th birthday. Röll, Dettelbach 1998, pp. 16-21.
  • Manual of Mycenaean Greek. Winter, Heidelberg 2003.
  • A comparative Graeco-Latin sentence syntax within the European context. Lincom Europa, Munich 2010 (LINCOM Studies in Indo-European Linguistics, 37), table of contents

In Czech language

  • Zlatá Egeis. Mladá Fronta, Prague 1969.
  • Zlaté Mykény. Prague 1983.
  • Řecké ostrovy. Olympia, Prague 1998.
  • Latina pro posluchače filologických oborů. Brno, 2003.
  • Písmo a jazyk mykénské řečtiny (1400–1200 př. Kr.). Masarykova univerzita, Brno 2007.

Cultural guide

  • (Ed.): Culture guide Waldviertel, Weinviertel, South Moravia. Deuticke, Vienna 1993; updated new edition 1996.
    • Czech edition: Waldviertel, Weinviertel, Jižní Morava: průvodce krajem a jeho kulturou. Moraviapress, Břeclav 1999.

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personal data
SURNAME Bartoněk, Antonín
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech classical philologist and mycenaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 2016
Place of death Brno