Francis Dvorník - a World-Renowned Byzantinist

0493193 - SLÚ 2019 RIV CZ eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Vavřínek, Vladimír
Francis Dvorník - a World-Renowned Byzantinist.
Homage to Francis Dvorník. Prague: Slovanský ústav AV ČR, v. v. i., 2018 - (Vavřínek, V.; Melichar, P.; Čechová, M.), s. 7-20. Byzantinoslavica. Revue International des Études Byzantines, 76/3. ISBN 978-80-86420-71-4. ISSN 0007-7712.
[Francis Dvorník - Scholar and His Work. Praha (CZ), 10.09.2015]
Institutional support: RVO:68378017
Keywords : Dvorník, František * Cyrillo-Methodiana * Dumbarton Oaks * the Photian Schism
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Biographical medailon of the excellent and most famous Czech Byzantinist, professor of Charles University and later also of Harvard University msgre Francis Dvorník. Three major research topics he studied in the subsequent periods of his academic career are examined: his epoch-making monographs on the Christianization of the Slavs from Byzantium and, in particular, on the Cyrillo-Methodian mission written during his postgraduate studies in Paris and the following academic career in Prague, his revolutionary book on the Photian schism completed during his exile in England in the time of World War II, and his monumental work on the Early Christian and Byzantine political philosophy that he produced at Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies in Washington, DC. Besides his scientific work political activities of Professor Dvorník are described too, whether it was his co-operation with the Czechoslovak ministry of foreign affaires in the time between the wars or his support of various Czech cultural institutions in exile when he later lived in the US.
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