Mgr. Ondřej Podavka Ph.D.

podavka@ics.cas.cz
+420 234 612 317

Department of Neo-Latin Studies
associate scholar
ASEP
Bibliography

Research focus

intellectual history, history of nobility, history of travelling in the early mondern period, ego-documents

Education

2012−2017: doctoral studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, programm: Czech history, doctoral thesis: "Zdeněk Brtnický of Waldstein and His Diary from the Years 1597−1603", advisor: Martin Holý.
2006−2012: master studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, programm: History − Latin studies, diploma thesis: "Edice vybraných dopisů Bohuslava Balbína a Aloise Hackenschmidta s komentářem a úvodní studií", advisor: Martin Svatoš.
1998−2006: secondary education, "Gymnázium Opatov".

 

Employment history

since 07/2013: Centre for Classical Studies at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, (grant project Johann Peter Cerroni and historia litteraria of his age I., revision of authority entries of "Knihopis" database).
06/2012 – 06/2013: Centre for Classical Studies at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, (transcriptions of Johann Peter Cerroni's encyclopedia "Scriptores Regni Bohemiae", vol. II‒VIII).
07/2008 − 09/2013: revision of authority entries, retrocatalogization and ancillary works in various university libraries.
09/2011 − 12/2011: Karlštejn castle (guide).

Grants

2021-2023: participation in the project "University of Basel and the Czech lands (1460–1630)", GA ČR 21-00227S, Principal Investigator: Martin Holý.
2019‒2021:participation in the project "Europa humanistica II. Editing and Translating Ancient Classics in the Czech Lands at the Turn of the 16th Century", GA ČR 19-04340S, Principal Investigator: Marta Vaculínová.
2017‒2019: participation in the project "The Beginnings of the Modern Literary Criticism within Bohemian Lands 1770‒1805", Principal Investigator: Dalibor Dobiáš.
2016‒2018: účast na projektu "Forms of Humanism in Literature of the Bohemian Lands, 1469‒1622", GA ČR 16-09064S, Principal Investigator: Lucie Storchová.
2016‒2018: participation in the project "Bohemian Brethren Nobility in Bohemia and Moravia. Formation of noblemenʼs confessional identity and its changes in the 1st half of the 17th century", 16-11332S, Principal Investigator: Jiří Just.
2012–2016: participation in the project "Johann Peter Cerroni and historia litteraria of his age I.", reg. č. GAČR P406/12/2254, Principal Investigator: Martin Svatoš.

Fellowships and research stays

May 2017: Basel (Universitätsbibliothek), research stay (1 week).
October 2016: Basel (Universitätsbibliothek), research stay (1 week).
March 2015: Rome (Czech Historical Institue in Rome, Vatican Library), research stay (3 weeks).
June 2014: Rome (Czech Historical Institue in Rome, Vatican Library), research stay (1 month).
June 2013: Vienna (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Österreichisches Staatsarchiv), research stay (1 week).
November 2013: Cieszyn (The Museum Library and Study Centre Silesia, Książnica Cieszyńska), research stay (1 week).

Conference papers and lectures abroad

6. 9. 2019: Bratislava, Ján Stanislav Institute of Slavistics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, conference Latin in the Early Nineteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy  – lecture Reflections of the teaching of Latin in the orders' education from the early 19. century works.

Conference papers and lectures in the Czech Republic

20. 10. 2017: Prague, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, conference Rhetoric and Genres of Learned Communication in Early Modern Central Europe: From Humanist Correspondence to Scholarly Journal – a lecture The formal, scholarly and familiar styles in the mutual correspondence of Bohuslav Balbín and Alois Hackenschmidt from 1664‒1667.
14. 6. 2017: Prague, The Instutute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences, conference The nobility among the Brethren within Bohemiaand Moravia. Formation of the confessional identity of the noblemen in the context of early modern Central European protestantism – a lecture Latin correspondence of Adam and Václav Budovec of Budov in the Archive of Matouš Konečný and in the Universitätsbibliothek Basel.
19. 11. 2015: Prague, The Instutute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences, conference An editor in a trap. Problems of edition of early moden mulitilingual texts – a lecture A few notices on recent edition of L. J. Scherschnick's manuscripts.
19. 11. 2015: Prague, The Instutute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences, conference An editor in a trap. Problems of edition of early moden mulitilingual texts – a lecture Critical edition of Johann Peter Cerroni's Scriptores regni Bohemiae (together with Martin Svatoš).
21. 11. 2014: Praha, Learned Bohemia and Moravia and historia litteraria within Bohemian lands in 18. a at the beginning of 19. century – a lecture Johann Peter Cerroni and his manuscripts on historia litteraria within Bohemian lands (together with Martin Svatoš).
20. 11. 2014: Prague, Learned Bohemia and Moravia and historia litteraria within Bohemian lands in 18. a at the beginning of 19. century – a lecture Leopold Jan Šeršník and his two encyclopedias of scholars.
26. 4. 2014: Klatovy, Baroque jesuit Klatovy 8 – a lecture Mutual correspondence of Bohuslav Balbín and Alois Hackenschmidt from 1664–1667.

Popularization

25. 2. 2020: Prague, a lecture cycle The Waldsteins – Lions in the Service of the Emperors, a lecture Zdeněk Brtnický of Waldstein.
9. 11. 2017: Prague, Week of Science and Technology. Open day of Centre for Classical Studies - a lecture Zdeněk Brtnický of Waldstein and his diary from the years 1597–1603
4. 7. 2017: Brno, The Summer School of Classics – a lecture Zdeněk Brtnický of Waldstein and his perception of ancient monuments during the Grand Tour .
4. 11. 2015: Prague, Week of Science and Technology. Open day of Centre for Classical Studies - a lecture Johann Peter Cerroni – scholar, collector, encyclopedist.
2. 4. 2015: Prague, Circle for the early modern history – a lecture „Historia litteraria“ within Bohemian lands and encyclopedias of J. P. Cerroni (1753–1826).

Current projects

Early modern Bohemia litteraria. Genre differentiation of Neo-Latin literature (1500–1750).
Johann Peter Cerroni and historia litteraria of his age I. – preparatory works of an edition, translation and commentary of selected entries of Cerroni's encyclopedia "Scriptores Regni Bohemiae".
Zdeněk Brtnický of Waldstein and his Diary from the Years 1597–1603 – preparatory works of Waldstein's biography and an edition and translation of his diary.