Prof. Dr. Jiri Holy

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsSlavic Languages (Linguistics),General and Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies
KeywordsPrager Schule und aktuelle Literaturtheorie, Literaturgeschichte

Current contact address

CountryCzech Republic
CityPrague
InstitutionCharles University
InstituteInstitut für Tschechische Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Walter KoschmalInstitut für Slavistik, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2008

Programme(s)

2008Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Jirí Holý is one of the most renowned international scholars in Western Slavic studies. Holý has set international standards with his work on the history of Czech literature and has had a profound formative influence on the knowledge of Czech literature and literary theory both nationally and internationally. Holý combines exceptional philological ethics with meticulous textual analysis. In Germany, he will be researching the literary narrative of the "untellable" of the Shoa in a comparative approach that will include Czech, Polish and German-Jewish literature.