Pešek Jiří

Prof. PhDr. , CSc.
Born February 10, 1954

• Modern History
• Member of Learned Society since 2013

Educational and professional preparation

• 1973-1978, Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University;
• 1978, PhDr, FP, CU;
• 1987, CSc, Institute of Czech and World History, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague;
• 1995 Associate Professor, Modern history, FSS, CU;
• 2000, Professor, Czech history, FSS, CU.

Employment and academic positions

• 1978-1994, Prague City Archives (1990-1994 Deputy Director);
• 1992-1993, Visiting Lecturer, Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Düsseldorf (Germany)
• 1994-1995, Lecturer, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, CU;
• 1995-2012, Chair, Department of German and Austrian Studies, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, CU
• 1997 – 2003, Director, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, CU
• 2000 – 2001, Visiting Professor, Faculty of Philosophy (Bohemicum), University of Regensburg
• 2001 – 2002, Visiting Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Göttingen
• 2006, Visiting Professor, Faculty of Philosophy (Bohemicum), University of Regensburg
• 2006, Visiting Professor, Faculty of Philosophy (Bohemicum), University of Regensburg
• 2008, Visiting Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Konstanz
• since 2012, Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Humanities, CU

Membership in selected domestic scientific bodies

• since 1986, Czech Art Historians’ Association
• since 1993, Joint Czech-German Historians‘ Committee (2001-2008 Chairman of the Czech section)
• since 1999, Board, Czech Historical Association (2002-2005 Chairman)
• since 2002, Editor-in-chief, Český časopis historický (with Jaroslav Pánek);
• 1999 – 2012, Chairman, Evaluation Panel for the Humanities, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
• since 2006, Academic Council, Charles University, Prague

Membership and positions in international organizations and societies

• 1991, Collegian, Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz (IEG)
• 1997, Member, Collegium Carolinum, Munich (2004-2009 Board Member)
• since 2000 Historical Committee for the Czech lands, Heidelberg (Corresp. Member)
• since 2007 Executive Board, Action Austria – Czech Republic, Prague
• 2007-2013 Board of Advisors, Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS), School of History, University of Freiburg
• since 2010 Board of Advisors, Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz (IEG)

Notable Awards

• 2007 German Order of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse)

Selected publications

• Jiří Pešek, The University of Prague, Czech Latin Schools and Social Mobility 1570-1620, History of Universities (Oxford) 10. 1991, S. 117-136.
• Jiří Pešek, Měšťanská vzdělanost a kultura v předbělohorských Čechách 1547-1620 (The burgher Education and Culture in Bohemia 1547-1620 ), Praha 1993.
• Jiří Pešek, Les étudiants des pays tchèques entre Prague et Vienne: comparaison du role des trois universités en 1884, in: M. Godé - J. Le Ridder - F. Mayer (edd.), Allemands, Juifs et Tchèques a Prague, Montpellier 1996, s. 101-113.
• Jiří Pešek, Protestant literature in Bohemian private libraries circa 1600, in: Karin Maag (ed.), The Reformation in Eastern and Central Europe (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History), Aldershot 1997, s. 36-49
• Jiří Pešek, Kontinuität und Diskontinuität in der tschechischen Kultur 1945-1965, in: Gernot Heiss - Alena Míšková - Jiří Pešek - Oliver Rathkolb (edd.), Österreich und die Tschechoslowakei nach 1945. An der Bruchlinie, Innsbruck - Wien 1998, p. 77-102.
• Jiří Pešek, Od aglomerace k velkoměstu. Praha a středoevropské metropole 1850-1920" (From Agglomeration to the City. Prague and middle-european Metropolis 1850-1920) Praha 1999.
• Václav Ledvinka - Jiří Pešek, Prag (Prague – History of the City), Praha 2001.
• Christoph Cornelißen – Roman Holec – Jiří Pešek (edd.), Diktatur – Krieg – Vertreibung. Erinnerungskulturen in Tschechien, der Slowakei und Deutschland seit 1945, Essen 2005.
• Manfred Kittel – Horst Möller – Jiří Pešek – Oldřich Tůma, Deutschsprachige Minderheiten in Europa 1945. Bilanzen eines deutsch-tschechischen Projekts, München 2007.
• Ralph Melville – Jiří Pešek – Claus Scharf (edd.), Zwangsmigrationen im Mittleren und Östlichen Europa. Völkerrecht – Konzeptionen – Praxis (1938-1950), Mainz 2007
• Jiří Pešek, Prague, Wroclaw, and Vienna: Center and Periphery in Transformations of Baroque Culture?, in: Gary B. Cohen – Franz J. Szabo (edd.), Embodiments of Power. Building Baroque Cities in Europe, New York – Oxford 2008, s. 80-96.
• Jiří Pešek – Lucie Filipová, Věda a politika. Německé společenskovědní ústavy v zahraničí, Praha 2013.