PhDr. Robert Šimůnek, Ph.D., DSc.

Research areas

Medieval history with emphasis on aristocratic self-reflection and representation, urban history, social history

Historical geography, focusing on the development of territorial and settlement structures; historical topography, landscape history and historical iconography.

Graduated programmes, schools and thesis topics, academic degrees

1989–1994: Master's degree (Mgr.), field of study: History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, diploma thesis: The structure of the Rosenberg dominion during the reign of Ulrich II. (focusing on the history of the South Bohemian dominion in the post-Hussite period)

1997–2003: Ph.D. in History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, thesis title: Administrative system of aristocratic dominion in late medieval Bohemia. Rosenberg domain 1418–1472

2003: Rigorosum proceedings (PhDr.), Faculty of Arts, Charles University

2015: DSc. degree, Czech Academy of Sciences, thesis title: Representation of the Czech medieval nobility

Foreign internships and scholarships

4–8/2000: Universität Konstanz, PhD scholarship Herbert Quandt Stiftung Altana AG

Domestic grants and major projects

1999‒2002: Fontes Cartographici Bohemiae, Moraviae atque Silesiae, provider: Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, team member.

2000‒2002: Historical Town Atlas of the Czech Republic, provider: Czech Science Foundation (GA), team member.

2003‒2005: Historical Town´s Atlas of the Czech Republic II., provider: GA, team member.

2003–2005: Czech Nobility in the Late Middle Ages: Forms and Features of Self-reflection and Representation, provider: Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, principal investigator.

2006‒2008: Historical Town´s Atlas of the Czech Republic, provider: GA, team member.

2009‒2012: Historical Town´s Atlas of the Czech Republic, provider: GA, team member.

2011‒2015: Cartographic sources as a cultural heritage. Research of the New Methods and Technologies of Digitalisation to Enable Access and Use of the Old Maps, Plans, Atlases and Globes, provider: Ministry of Culture (MK), team member.

2012–2015: Development of digital technologies making prosopographic and topographic files of past researchers accessible to public, with special regard to the August Sedláček collection, provider: MK, team member.

2012‒2018: Historical Geography Research Centre, provider: GA, team member.

2013–2015: Historical Town’s Atlas of the Czech Republic, provider: GA, principal investigator. 

2015–2017: Child in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age in the Czech lands, provider: GACR, team member. 

2018‒2022: Dowry Towns of the Queens of Bohemia (A living part of historical consciousness and its support of the instruments of historical geography, virtual reality and cyberspace), provider: MK, team member.

Teaching activities

Faculty of Arts, Charles University (since 2010)

Membership of editorial boards

Editor-in-Chief of the journal Historical Geography
Member of the Editorial board of Studia Geohistorica
Member of the Editorial Board of Acta Onomastica
Member of the Editorial Board of Bohemiae Occidentalis Historica
Member of the Editorial board of the journal Hussite Tábor
Member of the Editorial board of the journal Studies and reports. Historical Proceedings of the Prague Region

Membership in domestic and foreign professional societies and scientific councils

Member of the International Commission for the History of Towns (ICHT) (since 2012)
Member of the Nomenclature Commission of the Czech Office of Surveying and Cadastre (since 2006)
Member of the Historical Geography Commission of the Historical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (since 1997)