Jerzy Styka
Jerzy Styka (* 1954 in Bratkowice ) is a Polish classical philologist .
Life
After studying Classical Philology and Hispanic Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (1973–1977), Styka worked there as a research assistant and received his doctorate in 1984. Since then he has dealt with topics of Latin studies, literary theory and aesthetics and the ancient origins of Spanish literature.
Numerous scholarships have enabled him to do research in Italy, Spain, Norway and the Netherlands. A year after his habilitation (1994), Styka was appointed Director of the Institute of Classical Philology at the University of Kraków and Scientific Secretary of the Department of Classical Philology of the Polish Academy of Sciences . In 1997 Styka was promoted to full professor, in 1998 he was Vice Dean of the Philosophical Faculty and Vice President of the Societas Philologa Polonorum . After Fritz Graf's divorce in the summer of 1999, Styka represented his chair in Latin studies in Basel as a visiting professor before he was made full-time professor in 2000. After just a year, Styka left the University of Basel and went back to the Jagiellonian University. His successor in 2002 was the Austrian philologist Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer .
Since 2001, in addition to his full professorship in Kraków, Styka has held a visiting professorship at the University of Warsaw .
Web links
- Literature by and about Jerzy Styka in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jerzy Styka at the University of Warsaw (Polish)
- Jerzy Styka at the Jagiellonian University (Polish)
- Press release from the University of Basel on the appointment of Styka
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SURNAME | Styka, Jerzy |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish classical philologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bratkowice |