PhDr. Petr Kitzler Ph.D., DSc.

Foto pracovníka Petr Kitzler

kitzler@ics.cas.cz
+420 221 183 201

Department of Biblical Studies
director of the Institute of Philosophy / senior scholar
ASEP
Bibliography

Research focus

  • early Christianity; early Christian literature, especially apologetics and hagiography; early Christian theological and philosophical anthropology, doctrine of the soul and related questions
  • Tertullian of Carthage
  • early Christian martyrological literature, Passio Perpetuae

Academic websites profile (academia.edu etc.)

academia.edu
researchgate.net

Education

February 2018: appointed Research Professor (Res. Prof.) in social sciences and humanities by the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague

2010–2013: Ph. D. in classical philology, Charles University, Prague. Project: „The Passio Perpetuae and Its Reception in the Literature of Early Church“, supervised by Dr. Martin Bažil

2010–2005: philosophy, Charles University, Prague. Project: „Tertullians Concept of the Soul“, supervised by prof. Dr. Lenka Karfíková

2005 (January): doctorate in ancient Greek and Latin, Masaryk University, Brno (PhDr.)

2006–2003: Latin mediaevistics, Masaryk University, Brno. Project: „The Beginnings of Latin Hagiography“, supervised by prof. Dr. Jana Nechutová

2003–1997: classical Greek and Latin, Masaryk University, Brno (MA summa cum laude)


Employment history

2023 (October): Director of the Institute of Philosophy, CAS

2018 (February): Research Professor in social sciences and humanities, Centre for Classical Studies at the Institute of Philosophy, CAS, Prague

2016 (August) - 2023 (Septembet): Head of the Centre for Classical Studies at the Institute of Philosophy, CAS, Prague

2016 (August) - 2023 (September): Deputy director of the Institute of Philosophy, CAS, Prague

2016-2013: research secretary of the Institute of Philosophy, CAS, Prague

2016-2006: researcher at the Centre for Classical Studies, CAS, Prague (2007-2015 managing editor of journal Listy filologické - Folia philologica; 2007-2013 managing editor of journal Eirene. Studia Graeca et Latina)

2011-2003: researcher at the Centre for Patristic, Mediaeval and Renaissance Texts, Palacký University Olomouc

2011 (May-August): Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellow, Warburg Institute, SAS, University of London. Project: „Passio Perpetuae and Its Later Interpreters: From Exemplum Fidei to Admirandum, Non Imitandum“

2008 (October–December): Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellow, Warburg Institute, SAS, University of London. Project: „Tertullian’s Concept of the Soul“

2002-2000: external cooperation with the Centre for Patristic, Mediaeval and Renaissance Texts, Masaryk University, Brno


Grants

2022-2020: principal investigator of the project ‘Development of Environment for Professional Growth of the Employees of the Institute of Philosophy of the CAS’ (reg. no. CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/18_054/0014626), funded by EU

2021-2019: cooperation on the Czech Science Foundation grant no. GA19-02741S: "Transmission and Transformation of Ideas: Hellenism, Early Judaism and Early Christianity" (principal investigator Doc. Mgr. Jiří Hoblík, Th.D.)

2018-2012: research cooperation with the Czech Science Foundation Centre of excellence "History and interpretation of the Bible", P401/12/G168, Palacký University, Olomouc

2016: work on the team project Gnadenlehre in der Schrift und Patristik (within the project Handbuch der Dogmengeschichte, Herder Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau), supervised by prof. L. Karfíková

2013–2012: research grant of the Grant Agency of the Charles University (GA UK), Prague, no. 501112 „The Passio Perpetuae and Its Reception in the Literature of Early Church“

2007: publication grant of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic for publishing the volume „World Literature – World in Literature“ (within the Civic Association for Iliterature)

2005: research grant of the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic, FRVŠ 1518/G5 „Literary Continuity between the Ancient and Medieval Literature (the Latin passiones of the 3rd to 12th Centuries“)


Fellowships and research stays

2022: Visiting Research Fellowship, Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK (three and a half months, mobility project funded by the Czech Ministry of Education)

2019: Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK (one month)

2011: Mellon Research Fellowship, Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK (three months)

2008: Mellon Research Fellowship, Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK (three months)

each year: short term research stays (one to three weeks) at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz (Austria), Bayerische Nationalbibliothek München (Germany), University of Wien (Austria), Humboldts-Universität Berlin (Germany), Warburg Institute London (UK)


Conference papers and lectures abroad

October 2022: London, School of Advanced Study, Warburg Institute, University of London (Work in Progress): lecture "Between Philosophy, Theology, and Medicine: Tertullian and His Treatise De anima"

19. - 22. 7. 2017: Montreal Quebec, Celtic Conference in Classics, panel Self, Consciousness and Conscience in Late Antiquity: paper: "From Soul to Self: Tertullian’s Doctrine of the Soul and Its Legacy" (in absentia)

May 2011, London, Warburg Institute , School of Advanced Study, University of London (Director´s Work-in-Progress Seminar: lecture "Passio Perpetuae and Its Later Interpreters: From Exemplum Fidei to Admirandum, Non Imitandum"

November 2008, London, Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London (Director´s Work-in-Progress Seminar): lecture "Tertullian´s Concept of the Soul and his Corporealistic Ontology"

21.-26. 7. 2008, Lisboa, Portugal; converence "ICAN IV / International Conference on the Ancient Novel: Crossroads in the Ancient Novel: Spaces, Frontiers, Intersections"; paper: "Viri mirantur faciulius quam imitantur: Passio Perpetuae in the Literature of Ancient Church"

29.-30. 3. 2006, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia ; conference "Svätec a jeho funkcie v spoločnosti"; paper: "Passio Perpetuae a Acta Perpetuae: Mezi tradicí a inovací" (in absentia)


Conference papers and lectures in the Czech Republic

21. 2. 2018, Prague, Faculty of Arts, Charles university, a lecture "The Beginnings of Latin Christian Hagiography"

23. 10. 2014, Jednota klasických filologů (The Association of Czech Classical Philologists), Masaryk University, Brno - lecture: "Nejstarší latinská hagiografie ve vrstvách paměti" ("The oldest Latin hagiography in the layers of memory")

8. 5. 2014, Praha, Charles Univeristy, international conference "The Process of Authority" within the centre of excellence "History and interpretation of the Bible" - paper: "Passio Perpetuae and Acta Perpetuae: Tradition, Authority, and the Rewriting of Martyrdom"

27. 3. 2014, Jednota klasických filologů (The Association of Czech Classical Philologists), Charles University, Prague - lecture "Athletae Christi. Nejstarší latinská hagiografie" ("Athletae Christi. The oldes Latin hagiography")

12. 11. 2013, Palacký University, Olomouc - lecture "Počátky latinsky psané křesťanské literatury" ("The Beginnings of Latin Christian Literature)

17. 6. 2010, Praha, Charles University - conference "Nauka o milosti v raném křesťanství" ("The Doctrine of Grace in Early Christianity"), paper: "Tertullianovo pojetí milosti" ("Tertullian's concept of divine grace")

20. 11. 2003, Zlín. Moravian-Silesian Christian Academy - lecture "Polozapomenuté postavy církevních dějin - Q. S. F. Tertullianus" ("Half-forgotten figures of early Church - Tertullian")

11. 11. 2003, „10th Meeting of doctoral students“ organized by the Centre for Medieval Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, paper „Tertullian’s De spectaculis“

7.-9. 2. 2001, Palacký University, Olomouc - conference of the Centre for Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Texts, paper "Q. S. F. Tertullianus - De spectaculis"


Editorial positions

Eirene. Studia Graeca et Latina, Prague, editor-in-chief (since 4/2013; 2007-2013 managing editor)

Listy filologické - Folia philologica, Prague,  member of the editorial board (since 1/2016; 2007-2015 managing editor)

publishing house Filosofia, Prague, member of the editorial board (since 2013)

the editor of the series "Knihovna raně křesťanské tradice" ("The Library of Early Christian Tradition") in the publishing house OIKOYMENH, Prague (since 2015, together with s L. Karfíková)

publishing house OIKOYMENH, Prague, member of the editorial board (since 2/2017)

anonymous peer-reviewer for Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture (Cambridge); Eirene. Studia Graeca et Latina (Prague); Graeco-Latina Brunensia (Brno); Journal of Early Christian Studies (Baltimore); Listy filologické (Prague); Vigiliae Christianae (Leiden)


Membership in universities’ subject area boards

  • member of the Ph.D. subject area board "Philosophy of Religion", Faculty of Protestant Theology, Charles University, Prague (since 2016)
  • member of the Ph.D. subject area board "Classical Philology", Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno (since 2021)
  • member of the board of studies Ancient Greek Language and Literature, Masaryk University, Brno (since 2019)

Memberships in academic associations and other academic bodies

  • academic bodies and panels

2021 - present: member of the Comission for defending Research Professor Theses (subject: classics), Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague (2021-2023: chair)

2021-2023: member of the Committee for the Support of CAS Publishing Activities

2019-2022: member of the evaluation panel P 406 "Linguistics and Literature", Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR), Prague

2019 - present: member of the Comission for defending Research Professor Theses (subject: philosophy), Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

2018 - present: member of the expert evaluator board according to Methodology for Evaluating Research Organisations and Research, Development and Innovation Earmarked Aid Programmes (M17+), Office of the Government of the Czech Republic, Prague

2017 - present: member of the Board of the Institute of Philosophy, CAS, Prague (2017-2021: deputy chair)

2017: member of the International Evaluation Committee (social sciences and humanities) of the large research infrastructures of the Czech Republic, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, Prague

  • academic and professional associations

2019 - present: review collaborator of the Chronica Tertullianea et Cyprianea (part of the Revue d'études augustiniennes et patristiques), L'Institut d'Études Augustiniennes, Paris

2009 - present: North American Patristics Society (Baltimore; member)

2009 - present: Association des Études Patristiques (Paris; member)

2008 - present: The Patristic Society of the Czech Republic (Olomouc; member)

2006 - present: Association of the Czech Classical Philologists (Prague; member)

2005 - present: Czech Literary Translators’ Guild (Prague; member; 2009-2017 member of the Committee)


Honors and awards

2015: Honorable mention of the Chancellor of the Palacký University, Olomouc, for the book Tertullian, De carne Christi

2014: Otto Wichterle Award by the President of the Czech Academy of Sciences for the research on early Christian literature

2005: third prize of the Czech Literary Translators’ Guild for the Czech translation of F. Nietzsche’s Homers Wettkampf (Jiří Levý Competition)

2004: second prize of the Czech Literary Translators’ Guild for the Czech translation of F. Nietzsche’s Homer und die klassische Philologie (Jiří Levý Competition)

2004: Jan Hus Foundation Scholarship, Brno

1997: Honorable Mention of the Czech Literary Translators’ Guild for the Czech translation of F. Nietzsche’s poems Dionysische Dithyramben (Jiří Levý Competition)


Current projects

Tertullian of Carthage; early Christian literature