Lenka Jiroušková

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Lenka Jiroušková (born January 24, 1971 in Česká Lípa ) is a Czech Middle Latin .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1989, she studied bohemian and classical philology ( Latin ) at the Charles University in Prague and the Masaryk University in Brno . After having been employed as a Research Associate at the Institute of Classical Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (1997-1998) academic work done at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (1998-2005), where they summa cum laude in 2003 doctorate was. Since November 2005 she has been working as a research assistant (since 2010 academic advisor on a temporary basis) at the seminar for Latin Philology of the Middle Ages at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . After her habilitation in Middle Latin in 2012, she was awarded the venia legendi there . Lenka Jiroušková represented the professorship at the Middle Latin Seminar at the University of Freiburg in the summer semester of 2012 and was a fellow at FRIAS from October 1, 2013 to July 31, 2014 . In the 2015 summer semester and 2015/16 winter semester, she was the professor for Middle and Neo-Latin Philology at the University of Göttingen . From the 2016 summer semester to the 2017 summer semester, she represented the then vacant professorship for Medieval Latin Philology at the University of Freiburg.

She then started working as a research assistant at the University of Würzburg and completed the yoga teacher training she began in 2016 . She practices this profession (as of January 2020) in Göttingen.

Her research interests are hagiography , vision literature , narrative texts of the Middle Ages, Medieval comparative studies (Latin - Old Czech ), Medieval edition studies, text editions (Latin and Old Czech), retextualization and recontextualization of medieval literature, usage-related changes in form and function and their medieval tradition literary-functional aspects in specific (codicological as well as literary-historical) contexts, Latin and old Czech literature in medieval Bohemia (with a special focus on the time of the Luxembourgers) and vernacular arrangements of Latin material.

Fonts (selection)

  • as editor: Speculum medii aevi. Zrcadlo středověku. Sborník přednášek proslovených v rámci cyklu o kultuře středověku, který proběhl na Filozofické fakultě Univerzity Karlovy v Praze v únoru až květnu 1998 . KLP, Prague 1998, ISBN 80-85917-47-5 .
  • as editor: Jaroslav Kolár : Návraty bez konce. Study k starší české literatuře . Atlantis, Brno 1999, ISBN 80-7108-190-6 .
  • as editor with Klaus Herbers and Bernhard Vogel: Miracle reports of the early and high Middle Ages (= selected sources on German history of the Middle Ages. Volume 43). Knowledge Buchges., Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-534-16475-X .
  • The Visio Pauli. Ways and changes of an oriental apocryphal in the Latin Middle Ages including the old Czech and German-language text witnesses (= Middle Latin Studies and Texts. Volume 34). Brill, Leiden et al. 2006, ISBN 978-3-11-020364-6 (also dissertation, Erlangen-Nürnberg 2003).
  • The holy Viking king Olav Haraldsson and his hagiographic dossier. Text and context of the Passio Olavi (= Middle Latin Studies and Texts. Volume 46). Brill, Leiden et al. 2014, ISBN 978-90-04-26413-7 (also habilitation thesis, Freiburg 2012).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , accessed on January 9, 2019
  2. ↑ Own homepage , accessed on January 9, 2020


personal data
SURNAME Jiroušková, Lenka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech Middle Latin
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Česká Lípa