Prof. Dr. Anton Pritula

Curator and Lead Researcher in the Oriental Department at the Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg); Professor and  Chief Research Fellow in the Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies, HSE University (Moscow).

Education and Scholarly Career:

• PhD thesis "Christianity and the Persian Manuscript Tradition in 13^th–17^th Centuries", Faculty of Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg University (2001);
• Dr. Sci. thesis "East Syriac Poetry of the 13th–17th Centuries: The Ways of Evolution and Transmission", Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies, HSE University, Moscow (2021);
• Oriental Department, Hermitage Museum: Assistant (1995-2001), Junior research fellow (2001-2004), Senior research fellow (2004-2007), Head of Byzance and Middle East section (2007-2016), Lead research fellow (2016);
• Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies, HSE University: Senior research fellow (2020-2022), Associate Professor (2021-2022), Chief research fellow (2021), Professor (2022)

Research Interests:

Literature and art of the medieval Middle East, cultural interaction between Christian and Muslim communities.

References:

The State Hermitage Museum 

HSE University (Moscow)

ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2354-1171