Prof. Dr. Przemyslaw Marciniak

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsGreek and Latin Philology
KeywordsByzantinische Literatur, Rezeption von Byzanz, Satire, Byzantine Literature, reception
Honours and awards

2019: LOEB Classical Library Fellowship (Harvard University)

2018: Friedrich Wilhellm Bessel-Forschungspreis

Current contact address

CountryPoland
CityKatowice
InstitutionUniversity of Silesia
InstituteInstitute of Classics

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Johannes Niehoff-PanagiotidisByzantinisch-Neugriechisches Seminar, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Johannes Niehoff-PanagiotidisInstitut für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Albrecht BergerInstitut für Byzantinistik, Byzantinische Kunstgeschichte und Neogräzistik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Prof. Dr. Przemyslaw MarciniakInstitute of Classics, University of Silesia, Katowice
Prof. Dr. Johannes PahlitzschFachbereich 07 - Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2008

Programme(s)

2007Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme
2017Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Marciniak is a leading Byzantinist of the younger generation in Poland. He has gained international reputation for his research on the theatre in Byzantium and the reception of Byzantine culture in modern Europe. During his stay in Germany, he intends to study the accounts of the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453 in European literature and culture, and their perception of this event.