Maciej Junkiert
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
Maciej Junkiert is a historian of literature and intellectual historian and associate professor at the Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. He is a graduate of Polish philology (AMU, Poznań) and the “Artes Liberales” Academy (University of Warsaw, Jagiellonian University). His research focuses on relationships of classical philology with literary studies in Poland and Germany, especially in the 19th century. He has earned the Prime Minister’s Award for the best PhD thesis (2012) and the Konrad and Marta Górski Competition (2013). Holder of the START Programme scholarship of the Foundation for Polish Science (2014) and a scholarship for Young Researchers of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (2014–2017). He has authored the books: The New Greeks: Polish Romantics' Historicism and the Emergence of 'Altertumswissenschaft' (2024) and Cyprian Norwid and the History of Greece (2020).