Růžena Dostálová (22 April 1924 – 18 August 2014) was a Czech
philologist, historian, literary historian, translator and leading
Byzantine scholar.
Life and education
Dostálová was born in
Bratislava on 22 April 1924.[1] Between 1945 and 1950, Dostálová studied classical
philology at the
Faculty of Arts of the Charles University, studying
modern Greek from 1949 until 1952. In 1952, at the same university, she defended her dissertation on the Greek novel about Nino on papyrus fragments and was awarded the title of
PhDr. In 1959, she was awarded a
CSc.
After university, Dostálová worked at the
Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. In 1993, she researched Byzantine and Modern Greek philology for her
habilitation at Charles University, and in 1996 she was appointed associate
professor in the field of
classical philology. As an author and editor she translated Byzantine literature, and wrote the Byzantine and Greek chapters of the Slovnik řeckých spisovatelů (Dictionary of Greek Writers).[3] She is the author of the monograph Byzantine Education (published in 1990).[2]
Základní kurz novořeckého jazyka (Basic course of the modern Greek language) Brno: Masaryk University, 2000. 490 pp.
ISBN80-210-2395-3. 3rd ed. Prague: Set out, 2008. 498 pp.
ISBN978-80-86277-65-3
Geografie a mýty v Dionysiakách Nonna z Panopole (Geography and Myths in the Dionysiacs of
Nonna of Panopole) Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart, 2009. 202 pp.
ISBN978-80-86818-96-2
Achievements
2004 – Gold Medal of the Society of Greek Translators of Fine Literature (Athens)[2]
2004 – UK Medal on the occasion of the 85th anniversary of ETF UK[2]
2010 – State award of the Hellenic Republic 'Commandeur de l'Ordre du Phénix' , for lifetime work,[2][1] presented by the Ambassador of Greece to the Czech Republic Constantinos Kokossis
"Bibliografi e Růženy Dostálové"(PDF). Digitální knihovna Filozofické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity (in Czech). Brno: Masaryk University. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
References
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abBeneš, Jiří (2 September 2014).
"Vzpomínka na profesorku Růženu Dostálovou" [Remembrance of Professor Růžena Dostálová]. Oficiální časopis Akademie věd ČR. Akademický bulletin Official journal of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Archived from
the original on 6 July 2015.
^Balcárek, Petr (2022). Byzantium in the Czech Lands (4th–16th Centuries): Historical and Art Historical Perspectives. Netherlands: Brill.
ISBN978-90-04-52779-9.