Jiří Prosecký. Epos o Gilgamešovi [The Epic of Gilgamesh.]. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2018.
PhDr. Jiří Prosecký, CSc.
AREAS OF INTEREST
- Akkadian (Babylonian, Assyrian) literature, interpretation of Akkadian and bilingual Sumero-akkadian texts, translations from Akkadian literature, history of culture of the Ancient Near East
EDUCATION
- 1990, CSc., Candidatus Scientiarum (equivalent of Ph.D.), specialization ‒ theory of literature, literatures of Asia and Africa
- 1982, PhDr., specialization – languages and literatures of Asia and Africa
- 1968-1973, Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague, specialization – cuneiform studies and French
ACADEMIC CAREER
- 2012-2017 vice-chairman of the Council of the Oriental Institute AS CR
- 2002-2003 temporary director of the Oriental Institute AS CR
- 2003-2013 head of the department of the Near East and Africa of the Oriental Institute AS CR
- 1994-2002 deputy director of the Oriental Institute AS CR
- 1987 study tour to the Republic of Iraq (Baghdad, Mosul)
- 1978-now Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences), research fellow
- 1973-1978 State Library of the Czech Socialist Republic (now National Library in Prague), specialist
- 2009, 1999-2002, 1990-1992, Institute of the Ancient Near East and Comparative Linguistics of the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague (now Institute of Comparative Linguistics), lectures, history of Akkadian literature, interpretation of Akkadian literary texts, Sumerian grammar
OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
- member of the examining committee for the diploma exams in the field of cuneiform studies
- member of the editorial board of the journal Nový Orient
- member of the International Association for Assyriology (IAA), Leiden