Ota Pavlíček
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Mgr. Ota Pavlíček, Ph.D., Th.D. ota.pavlicek[at]flu.cas.cz Education PhD History of Philosophy, Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2014 Final mark: très honorable avec félicitations du jury Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ruedi Imbach, Prof. Zénon Kaluza ThD Hussite Theology, Hussite Faculty of Theology, Charles University, Prague, 2014 Final mark: summa cum laude Supervisor: doc. PhDr. Vilém Herold, CSc. MA (Mgr.) Teaching of Philosophy, Ethics, and Religion for the High Schools, Hussite Faculty of Theology, Charles University, Prague, 2007 Final mark: summa cum laude |
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Affiliation
I have been affiliated with the Institute of Philosophy since 2008, when I began to serve as Scientific Secretary to the Collegium Europaeum (www.collegium-europaeum.cz). Shortly thereafter, I also started work as a doctoral student and Principal Investigator on my first grant-funded project. From 2015–2019 I worked as a postdoctoral researcher and from 2019–2020 as a researcher; since 2020 I have been a senior researcher. My role as Scientific Secretary of the Collegium Europaeum came to an end with the establishment of the TRIPTIC-EU research group in 2021, with my becoming a coordinator for this unit, the Principal Investigator for the ACADEMIA project funded by the ERC, and also deputy head of department.
Research
I specialise in the history of knowledge production at Late Medieval and Early Modern European universities, being particularly interested in Central European Faculties of Liberal Arts and links to their counterparts in Western Europe. Systematically, my research interests include philosophical (metaphysics, logic, astrology) and theological (mostly philosophical theology) discussions, the Reformation’s philosophical background, and intellectual practice. I am also interested in various types of debates, including the Arts quodlibets. I also research the area of Digital Humanities in relation to textual corpora of Late Medieval and Early Modern scholarly texts.
I have run various projects in both fields, including a project on the 1409 Prague quodlibetal debate financed by the Czech National Scientific Foundation and the UniQ digital project on the Central European struggle over universals. My current primary project is ERC ACADEMIA, which reconstructs the Arts quodlibetal tradition in ca. 1370–1700. I am also interested in the transfer of the results of basic research in the humanities into applied research, in particular through digital technologies within the scope of Digital Humanities.
In 2014, I defended my doctoral thesis on the doctrines of Jerome of Prague, and continued my work on the history of the thought of masters at the Late Medieval University of Prague. Together with František Šmahel, I edited A Companion to Jan Hus (Brill, 2015). I also served as editor of a thematic block on the philosophical thought of Jan Hus and his teachers (in Filosofický časopis [Journal of Philosophy], 2015). Furthermore, I have edited a collaborative volume on Jerome of Prague (Filosofia, 2018) and a volume on Studying the Arts in Late Medieval Bohemia : Production, Reception and Transmission of Knowledge (Brepols, 2021).
From 2007 to 2014 I co-organised symposia on The Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice and coordinated the editorial process for the volumes of the same name. In 2016 I started a series of international conferences onStudying the Arts in Late Medieval Bohemia and ofInternational Consultation on Studying the Arts in Late Medieval Bohemia workshops. Beginning in 2022, I started to organise a series of lectures entitled Prague Talks on Digital Humanities, recordings of some of which can be found on the Institute of Philosophy’s YouTube Channel. In 2023, Brepols publishers and I started the editorial series Intellectual Practice and Thought at Late Medieval and Early Modern Universities (1300-1550).
Ph.D. and Postdoctoral Stays
2019–2020 Humboldt Research Fellowships for Postdoctoral Researchers, University of Cologne (Thomas-Institut, Postdoc)
2018 L'Institut de recherche et d'histoire des texte, CNRS (Postdoc, associated scholar to ERC-2012-2018-THESIS)
2018 University of Cologne (Thomas-Institut, Postdoc)
2017 Università degli Studi in Milan (Department of Philosophy, Postdoc)
2015 King’s College London (King’s Digital Hub, Visiting fellow)
2012 Universität Wien (Catholic Faculty of Theology, Visiting fellow)
2012 Monumenta Germaniae Historica (Junior fellow)
2009–2012 Paris 4 – Paris Sorbonne (Ph.D. student)
2009 EHESS Paris (Visiting fellow)
Awards
2023 ERC Proof of Concept, Seal of Excellence (project WHEEL)
2020 ERC StG (project ACADEMIA)
2019 Humboldt Research Fellowships for Postdoctoral Researchers (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)
2016 Otto Wichterle Award of the Czech Academy of Sciences
2015 Jan Hus Educational Foundation Prize
2014 Josef Hlávka Prize of the CAS for talented young researchers
2014 PhD thesis received the highest Czech and French distinctions
2008 Bernard Bolzano Prize of the Rector of Charles University Prague for the best MA thesis
2007 Josef Hlávka Prize for the best students and graduates of the Czech universities
2007 MA studies finished with the highest distinction
Publications
Books
Ota Pavlíček, ed., Studying the Arts in Late Medieval Bohemia: Production, Reception and Transmission of Knowledge, Turnhout: Brepols 2021 (=Studia Artistarum 48), 358 pp.
Ota Pavlíček, ed., Jeroným Pražský. Středověký intelektuál, mučedník české reformace a hrdina národní tradice [Jerome of Prague: Medieval Intellectual, Martyr of Bohemian Reformation and Hero of National Tradition], Praha: FILOSOFIA 2018 (= Europaeana Pragensia 10), 218 pp.
František Šmahel, Ota Pavlíček, eds., A Companion to Jan Hus, Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2015, 447 pp.
Ota Pavlíček, ed., “Příspěvky k filosoficko‑teologickému myšlení Jana Husa a jeho učitelů [Contributions to the Philosophico-Theological Thought of Jan Hus and his Teachers],” Filosofický časopis [Journal of Philosophy] 63 (2015), No. 6 [collection of articles]. 102 pp.
Ota Pavlíček, La dimension philosophique et thèologique de la pensée de Jérôme de Prague , Paris-Prague: Université de Paris IV – Paris Sorbonne & Charles University in Prague 2014, 622pp.
Jaroslava Hausenblasová, Petr Hlaváček, Zdeněk Mužík, Ota Pavlíček, Kacířská univerzita: Osobnosti pražské utrakvistické univerzity 1417-1622 [The Heretical University: Masters of the Prague Utraquist University in 1417-1622], Praha: Togga, 2013. 165 pp.
Studies and other texts
In English and French:
Pavlíček, O., “Stephen of Páleč’s works on universals, with a critical edition of his question Utrum universale sit aliquid extra animam preter operacionem intellectus ,” Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Âge 88 (2021), 287-336.
Pavlíček, O., “Notes on the Prague Faculty of Arts in 1348–1419,” in Studying the Arts in Late Medieval Bohemia: Production, Reception and Transmission of Knowledge , ed. O. Pavlíček, Turnhout: Brepols 2021 (=Studia Artistarum 48), 13–26.
Pavlíček, O., “The Argumenta sophistica in the Debate between Jerome of Prague and Blasius Lupus,” in Studying the Arts in Late Medieval Bohemia: Production, Reception and Transmission of Knowledge , ed. O. Pavlíček, Turnhout: Brepols 2021(=Studia Artistarum 48), 205–233 (with M. Hanke).
Pavlíček, O., “Jerome of Prague,” in The Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, 2nd edition, ed. H. Lagerlund, Dordrecht - Heidelberg - London - New York: Springer 2020, 893–901.
Pavlíček, O., “Parisian and Prague Quodlibeta Compared: The Transfer of the Quodlibetal Disputation between the Faculties and Jerome of Prague’s Struggle against the Thematic Limitations Imposed on the Faculty of Arts,” in What is New in the New Universities? Learning in Central Europe in the Later Middle Ages (1348 –1500), ed. E. Jung, Warsaw: IFiS PAN 2018, 325–356.
Pavlíček, O., “Jan Hus as a Philosopher: The Topic of Universals in Two Theological Contexts of His Sentences Commentary (Super IV Sententiarum I, dist. 19 and 33),” Przegląd Tomistyczny 34 (2018), 547–568.
Pavlíček, O., “Stephen of Páleč’s Quaestio de esse aeterno: A Study and Critical Edition,” Archives d'histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen-âge 84 (2017), 349–378.
Pavlíček, O., “Jan Hus,” in Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy , ed. M. Sgarbi, Dordrecht - Heidelberg - London - New York: Springer 2017 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_1117-1 ).
Pavlíček, O., “Wyclif’s Early Reception in Bohemia and His Influence on the Thought Jerome of Prague,” in Europe after Wyclif, eds. P. Hornbeck, M. VanDussen, NYC: Fordham University Press 2017, 89–114.
Pavlíček, O., “Jerome of Prague,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, eds. Helmer, Christine / McKenzie, Steven Linn / Römer, Thomas Chr. / Schröter, Jens / Walfish, Barry Dov / Ziolkowski, Eric, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter 2016, 997–1000.
Pavlíček, O., “The Chronology of Life and Work of Jan Hus,” in A Companion to Jan Hus, eds. F. Šmahel, O. Pavlíček, Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2015, 9–68.
Pavlíček, O., “‘Ipsa dicit, quod sic est, ergo verum.’ Authority of Scripture, the Use and Sources of Biblical Citations in the Work of Jerome of Prague,” in The Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice 10, eds. Z. V. David, D. R. Holeton, Praha: Filosofia and Filosofický časopis, 2015, 70–89.
Pavlíček, O., “Scutum fidei christianae: The Depiction and Explanation of the Shield of Faith in the Realistic Teaching of Jerome of Prague in the Context of His Interpretation of the Trinity,” in The Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice 9, eds. Z. V. David, D. R. Holeton (=Journal of Philosophy Special Issue 1/2014), Praha: Filosofia 2014, 72–97.
Pavlíček, O. – Herold, V., “Jan Hus,” in The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine, vol. II, ed. K. Pollmann, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013, 1167–1170.
Pavlíček, O., “In memoriam of Vilém Herold (9. 15. 1933 – 9. 10. 2012),” Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale 54 (2013), 523–532.
Pavlíček, O., “Two Philosophical Texts of Jerome of Prague and his Alleged Designation of Opponents of Real Universals as Diabolical Heretics,” in The Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice 8, eds. Z. David, D. Holeton (=Journal of Philosophy Special Volume 3/2011), Praha: Filosofia 2011, 53–77.
Pavlíček, O., “La figure de l'autorité magistrale à travers Jean Hus et Jérôme de Prague,” Revue des Sciences Religieuses 85 (2011), No. 3, 371–389.
Pavlíček, O. – Herold, V., “Jerome of Prague,” in The Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, ed. H. Lagerlund, Dordrecht - Heidelberg - London - New York: Springer 2011, 584–587.
Pavlíček, O. – Holeton, D., “Jerome of Prague,” in The New Westminster Dictionary of Church History, London: Westminster John Knox Press 2008, 350.
In Czech:
Pavlíček, O., “Jeroným Pražský jako čistý filosof? K myšlenkovému vlivu Jeronýmova akademického díla a k teologické dimenzi myšlení [Jerome of Prague as a Pure Philosopher? On the Doctrinal Influence of Jerome’s Scholastic Writings and the Theological Dimension of His Thought],” in Jeroným Pražský. Středověký intelektuál, mučedník české reformace a hrdina národní tradice , ed. O. Pavlíček, Praha: FILOSOFIA 2018, 11–34.
Pavlíček, O., “Argumenta sophistica: Disputace Jeronýma Pražského a Blažeje Vlka v kontextu řešení sofismat na pražské univerzitě [ Argumenta sophistica: The Disputation of Jerome of Prague and Blasius Lupus in the Context of Sophism Solutions at the University of Prague],” in Jeroným Pražský. Středověký intelektuál, mučedník české reformace a hrdina národní tradice , ed. O. Pavlíček, Praha: Filosofia 2018, 58–80 (with M. Hanke).
Pavlíček, O., “Příspěvek o 600 letům od smrti Jeronýma Pražského [A Contribution on the Occasion of 600 Years from the Death of Jerome of Prague],” in Jeroným Pražský. Středověký intelektuál, mučedník české reformace a hrdina národní tradice , ed. O. Pavlíček, Praha: Filosofia 2018, 7–10.
Pavlíček, O., “Projít ohněm: Drama Edzarda Schapera v souvislostech,” in Jan Hus: Projít ohněm. Život a smrt Jana Husa, Divadelní hra a scénické čtení podle rozhlasového dramatu Edzarda Schapera , ed. J. G. Pelechová, Praha: Kant 2016, 11–23.
Pavlíček, O., “Filosoficko-teologické základy myšlení Jana Husa: Univerzálie a některá s nimi spojená témata [Philosophico-Theological Basis of the Thought of Jan Hus: Universals and some Connected Themes],” in Ota Pavlíček, ed., “Příspěvky k filosoficko‑teologickému myšlení Jana Husa a jeho učitelů [Contributions to the Philosophico-Theological Thought of Jan Hus and His Teachers],” Filosofický časopis 63 (2015), No. 6, 859–892.
Pavlíček, O., “Téma: Příspěvky k filosoficko-teologickému myšlení Jana Husa a jeho učitelů: úvodem [This Volumes’s Topic: Contributions to the Philosophico-Theological Thought of Jan Hus and His Teachers],” Filosofický časopis 63 (2015), No. 6, s. 803–806.
Pavlíček, O., “Husův komentář k Sentencím Petra Lombardského: nalezení filosofické a teologické střední cesty [Hus’s Sentences Commentary: Finding the Middle Way],” in Via Media. Studie z českých náboženských a intelektuálních dějin, ed. P. Hlaváček, Praha: FILOSOFIA 2016, 21–27.
Pavlíček, O., “Štít víry Jeronýma Pražského a praktické užití vyobrazení Nejsvětější Trojice na anglických praporech z přelomu středověku a novověku,” in O felix Bohemia! Studie k dějinám české reformace, ed. P. Hlaváček, Praha: Filosofia 2013, 81–89.
Pavlíček, O., “Odešel Vilém Herold (15. 9. 1933 – 9. 10. 2012),” Filosofický časopis 60 (2012), No. 6, 944–953.
Pavlíček, O., “Otázka a kontext problematiky sufficientia praedicamentorum u Jeronýma Pražského a Robert Alyngton jako oxfordský zdroj jeho odpovědi,” AITHER III (2011), No. 5, 175–221.
Pavlíček, O., “Poznámky in margine k politické dimenzi působení Jeronýma Pražského,” AITHER II (2010), No. 3, 206–209.
Pavlíček, O., “Jeroným Pražský. Pohled na život a dílo českého intelektuála pozdního středověku,” Informační bulletin historické společnosti pro aktualizaci odkazu české reformace VERITAS 18 (2010), 2–7.
Pavlíček, O., “Jak je dnes možné zabývat se pražskými kvestiemi a jak si pomoci při přemýšlení nad jejich filosofickým obsahem,” AITHER 1 (2009), No. 2, 223–230.
Reviews
Pavlíček, O., “Before and After Wyclif: Sources and Textual Influences, Luigi Campi – Stefano Simonetta (eds.), Basel, FIDEM 2020,” Filosofický časopis 69 (2021), No. 4, 850-858.
Pavlíček, O., “Magistri Hieronymi de Praga Quaestiones, Polemica, Epistulae, Corpvs Christianorvm Continuatio Mediaeualis 222, František Šmahel, Gabriel Silagi (edd.), Turnhout: Brepols, 2010,” Studia mediaevalia Bohemica 7 (2012), 133-135.
Pavlíček, O., “Sedmdesát středověkých slov pro Ruediho Imbacha,” Filosofický časopis 60 (2012), No. 2, 289–296.
Pavlíček, O., “Jiří Kejř, Jan Hus známý i neznámý. Resumé knihy, která nebude napsána, Karolinum, Praha 2009,” Studia mediaevalia Bohemica 2 (2010), No. 1, 336–337.
Pavlíček, O., “Unikátní komentář na spis ‘De universalibus’ Jana Wyclifa,” Filosofický časopis 58 (2010), No. 6, 942–947.
Translations
Žůrková, J.; Pavlíček, Ota. Stvoření univerzálií podle Jana Husa [Překlad]. Filosofický časopis. 2015, Roč. 63, č. 6, s. 893-905. ISSN 0015-1831. [Orig.: Kaluza, Z. La création des universaux selon Jean Hus (á propos de la question Utrum omne testimonium fidei). In: Kroupa, J. K. (ed.), Septuaginta Paolo Spunar oblata: (70 + 2). Praha: KLP, 2000, s. 367-375].
Other
Herold, Vilém, “Inteligibilní bytí stvořených věcí v Bohu v nauce o ideách Jana Wyclifa,” Filosofický časopis 63 (2015), No. 6, 815–829. (Posthumously published by O. Pavlíček.)
Co-author of texts for the exhibition Sedm věží. Karel IV. pohledem akademiků (1316–2016) (AV ČR, Národní 3, Praha 1, 6. 4. – 3. 6. 2016).
Co-author the exhibition Kacířská univerzita [The Heretical University] on masters at the Prague University in 1419-1620 (Praha, Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy, 2013).
Co-author of the exhibition Cesty filozofie a práva 1882–2012 [Roads of Philosophy and Law] on personalities of the Prague Faculty of Arts in 1882-2012 (Praha, Karolinum, 2012).
Conferences [ see an updated selection ]
Ota Pavlíček has delivered more than forty papers in Europe and the USA on various scientific occasions, including major events in the field such as meetings of international societies (SIEPM, Societas Artistarum) or conferences which reunited leading scholars. At several of these events, he was an invited speaker (Fribourg, Milan, Oxford, Prague, Regensburg, St. Andrews, Cologne).
Granted research projects
ACADEMIA: Reconstructing Late Medieval Quests for Knowledge: Quodlibetal Debates as Precursors of Modern Academic Practice (2021–), European Research Council, Principal Investigator
MEMORI: A Research Infrastructure, a part of the Lindat/Clariah project (2019–2022): Czech Ministry of Education, Co-Principal Investigator
Philosophy at the University of Prague around 1409: Matěj of Knín’s Quodlibet as a Crossroads of European Medieval Knowledge (2019–2022), Czech Science Foundation, Principal Investigator (extended by 6 months due to covid)
International Cooperation Project of Young Researchers of the Czech Academy of Sciences (7/2017-6/2019), recipient
Postdoctoral project of the Czech Academy of Sciences on the philosophical thought of Stephen of Páleč and the struggle over universals in the Late Medieval Bohemia (7/2015-6/2017), recipient
Cultural Codes and Their Transformations in the Hussite Period (2012–2018): GA ČR, Center for Excellence, external collaborator
Philosophical Dimension of the Thought of Jerome of Prague (2009–2011): GA AV ČR, recipient
Philosophical and Theological Dimension of the Thought of Jerome of Prague (2009-2011): GA UK
Quaestio De esse aeterno by Stephen of Palecz in the context of his works and its doctrinal relation to the texts of Jerome of Prague (2012): GA UK, recipient
Project on Commentaries on Peter Lombard's Sentences (2010-): Société Internationale pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale, member of the team
Organisation of Scientific Meetings
2022 Panel on the Arts quodlibetal debates at the XVth International Congress of SIEPM
2022 7th Annual Meeting For Reading Medieval Manuscripts (co-convener)
2022 4th International Consultation on Studying the Arts in Late Medieval Bohemia
2022 The Modern Reading and Understanding of Medieval University Manuscripts
2021 Studying the Arts in Medieval Bohemia II: Production, Reception and Transmission of Knowledge at the Arts Faculty of Prague University in the Middle Ages, Prague, Institute of Philosophy, CAS
2021- Prague Talks on Digital Humanities series of workshops and lectures
2020 3rd International Consultation on Studying the Arts in Late Medieval Bohemia: Doctrines, Methods and Sources in the Prague Quodlibeta around 1409, Brno – Frýdek Místek – Milan – Prague – ZOOM
2019 2nd International Consultation on Studying the Arts in Late Medieval Bohemia: Doctrines, Methods and Sources in the Prague Quodlibeta around 1409, Prague, Institute of Philosophy, CAS
2019 International Workshop on Contingency and Necessity in Medieval and Post-medieval Scholasticism, Prague, Institute of Philosophy, CAS (main co-organiser)
2018 International Consultation on Studying the Arts in Late Medieval Bohemia: Doctrines, Methods and Sources in the Prague Quodlibeta around 1409, Milan, Universita degli Studi (co-organiser)
2016 Studying the Arts in Medieval Bohemia: Production, Reception and Transmission of Knowledge at the Arts Faculty of Prague University in the Middle Ages (2nd Annual Meeting of Societas Artistarum), Prague, Institute of Philosophy, CAS (in cooperation with IRHT CNRS Paris)
2016 Jerome of Prague (+1416): The First Czech Philosopher?, Prague, Institute of Philosophy, CAS
2015 International CENDARI Summer School on Researching Medieval Culture in a Digital Environment, Prague, Institute of Philosophy, CAS (main co-organiser, in cooperation with University of Dublin)
2008–2016 Biennial Symposia on the Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice, Prague, Institute of Philosophy, CAS (Secretary)
2011–2014 Dies Bibliographicus, Review Meetings on New Publications in the Older Intellectual History, Prague, Institute of Philosophy, CAS (Convener)
Membership
2019– Member of Editorial Board, Latinitatis medii aevi lexicon Bohemorum / Slovník středověké latiny v českých zemích
2018– Member of Editorial Board, Studie a prameny k dějinám myšlení v českých zemích [Studies and sources on the history of thought in Bohemia], FILOSOFIA
2017– Member of the Scientific Board, Questions from History Journal
2016– Member of the Council for Popularisation of the Institute of Philosophy, CAS
2014– Le Club des docteurs de Sorbonne Université
2012– Association pour la Recherche et la Publication d'Etudes sur la Faculté des arts (Societas Artistarum)
2010– Internationale Gesellschaft für Theologische Mediävistik e.V. (IGTM)
2010– Société pour L'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (SIEPM)
2008– Collegium Europaeum
Activities for broader public
Several appearances in medias (TV, radios, electronic newspapers) in connection with ERC ACADEMIA project (2020-).
A series of lectures and interviews on Jerome of Prague, i.a. Aktuálně.cz, ČRo Plus, ČCE (2015-2016)
Co-author of the exhibition Sedm věží. Karel IV. pohledem akademiků (1316–2016) [Seven towers. Charles IV in the eyed of scholars] (AV ČR, Národní 3, Praha 1, 6. 4. – 3. 6. 2016)
Co-author of didactic materials Jan Hus a husitství – didaktické materiály s využitím metod mediální a multikulturní výchovy a kritického myšlení (Česká škola bez hranic, 2015).
Co-author of texts for the exhibition Heretical university (poprvé vystaveno v Praze, Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy, 2013, poté Novoměstská radnice).)
Co–author of texts for the exhibition Cesty filozofie a práva 1882–2012 (poprvé vystaveno v Praze, Karolinum, 2012).
Others
I am the father of two kids. A boy (*2015) and a girl (*2017).
