doc. PhDr. Lucie Storchová, Ph.D., DSc.

Having obtained her doctoral degrees in Anthropology and Philology and her “Habilitation” in History, Lucie Storchová specializes in the early modern intellectual history, in particular in circulation of knowledge and texts in early modern Central Europe. She currently works as a Researcher Professor at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences and holds lectures at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague.

She is a member of several international learned societies, including the Renaissance Society of America and the International Association of Neo-Latin Studies. During the last years Lucie participated in several international projects including a Cost Action IS1310, projects related to the Europa humanistica network and the ERC 101021262 as well as the ERC CZ LL 2320. She has also recently led a grant project dealing with a complex field of humanist scholarly communities and literary life – its main outcome Companion to Central and Eastern European Humanism 2/1: The Czech Lands was published by De Gryuter. Another co-authored volume on Bohemian Editors and Translators at the Turn of the 16th Century appeared with Brepols.

Her most recent Czech monograph deals with ways in which Wittenberg natural philosophy was adapted to new cultural and confessional environments in the mid-16th-century Bohemian lands