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Austrian philologist and religious studies scholar
Rudolf Simek
(born 21 February 1954) is an Austrian philologist and religious studies scholar who is Professor and Chair of Ancient
German
and
Nordic Studies
at the
University of Bonn
. Simek specializes in
Germanic studies
, and is the author of several notable works on
Germanic religion
and
mythology
(including
Old Norse religion
and
mythology
),
Germanic peoples
,
Vikings
,
Old Norse literature
, and the culture of
Medieval Europe
.
Biography
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Since 1995, Simek has been Professor and Chair of Ancient German and Nordic Studies at the
University of Bonn
.
[1]
Simek was appointed Professor of Comparative Religion at the
University of Tromsø
in 1999, and Professor of Old Nordic Studies at the
University of Sydney
in 2000. Simek has held a number of visiting professorships, having had long research stays at the universities of
Reykjavik
,
Copenhagen
, London,
Oxford
and
Sydney
. From 2000 to 2003, Simek was Chairman of the International Saga Society (German: Internationalen-Saga-Gesellschaft). Simek is a member of many additional learned societies, including the
International Arthurian Society
, the Osterreichische Gesellschaft fur Germanistik, the
Viking Society for Northern Research
, the Society for Northern Studies, and the
Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy
.
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Research
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Simek researches a wide variety of topics connected to the
Middle Ages
. This includes
Germanic religion
and
mythology
(including
Old Norse religion
and
mythology
),
Vikings
and the
Viking Age
,
Old Norse literature
, and
medieval science
(including
astronomy
) and popular religion. Simek has published a number of notable works on these subjects, several of which have been translated into multiple languages.
[1]
Selected works
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- Lexikon der germanischen Mythologie
, Stuttgart,
Kroner
, 1984
ISBN
3-520-36801-3
(translations to English, French and Icelandic)
- Lexikon der altnordischen Literatur
(with Hermann Palsson), Stuttgart, Kroner, 1987
ISBN
3-520-49001-3
- Altnordische Kosmographie. Studien und Quellen zu Weltbild und Weltbeschreibung in Norwegen und Island vom 12. bis zum 14. Jahrhundert
, Berlin/New York, de Gruyter, 1990 (
Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde
. Erganzungsbande, Bd. 4)
ISBN
3-11-012181-6
- Erde und Kosmos im Mittelalter
. Munchen, C.H. Beck, 1992.
ISBN
3-406-35863-2
- Die Wikinger
, Munchen, C.H. Beck, 1998
ISBN
3-406-41881-3
(translation to Spanish)
- Religion und Mythologie der Germanen
, Stuttgart, Theiss 2003
ISBN
3-8062-1821-8
- Gotter und Kulte der Germanen
, Munchen, C.H. Beck, 2004
ISBN
3-406-50835-9
- Runes, Magic and Religion: A Sourcebook
(with John McKinnell und Klaus Duwel), Wien, Fassbaender, 2004
ISBN
978-3-900538-81-1
- Mittelerde ? Tolkien und die germanische Mythologie
, Munchen, C.H. Beck, 2005
ISBN
3-406-52837-6
- Der Glaube der Germanen
, Limburg und Kevelaer, Lahn-Verlag, 2005
ISBN
3-7867-8495-7
- Die Germanen
, Stuttgart,
Reclam
, 2006.
ISBN
3-15-017051-6
- Die Edda.
C. H. Beck, Munchen 2007,
ISBN
978-3-406-56084-2
(
C. H. Beck Wissen
).
- Ewige Orte. Reliquien und heiligen Statten in Wien.
Metro, Wien 2007,
ISBN
978-3-902517-64-7
.
- Artus-Lexikon. Mythos und Geschichte, Werke und Personen der europaischen Artusdichtung.
Reclam, Stuttgart 2012,
ISBN
978-3-15-010858-1
.
- Die Schiffe der Wikinger.
Reclam, Stuttgart 2014,
ISBN
978-3-15-010999-1
.
- Monster im Mittelalter. Die phantastische Welt der Wundervolker und Fabelwesen
. Bohlau, Koln, Weimar, Wien 2015.
ISBN
978-3-412-21111-0
.
- Vinland! Wie die Wikinger Amerika entdeckten
. C. H. Beck, Munchen 2016,
ISBN
978-3-406-69720-3
.
- Trolle. Ihre Geschichte von der Mythologie bis zum Internet.
Bohlau, Koln/Weimar/Wien 2018,
ISBN
978-3-412-50743-5
.
- Die Geschichte der Normannen. Von Wikingerhauptlingen zu Konigen Siziliens.
Reclam, Ditzingen 2018,
ISBN
978-3-15-011174-1
.
- Monster im Mittelalter
. Koln und Wien: Bohlau 2019,
ISBN
978-3412514037
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