Daniel Dvoracek

Daniel Dvořáček, Mgr.

Affiliated Researcher
ORCID Humans and Environment

About

From 2009 to 2017, Daniel Dvořáček studied prehistory and early history at Charles University in Prague and at the University of Innsbruck. Since 2016, he has been an archaeologist at the Archaeological Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. Since 2022, Dvořáček has been serving as Secretary of the joint research platform of the Czech Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Philosophy and the GWZO in Prague, »GWZO prague FLÚ«. From 2018 to 2023, he pursued his doctoral studies at Masaryk University in Brno.

Since September 2023, Dvořáček has been an affiliated researcher at the GWZO and a doctoral candidate within the joint doctoral programme of the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences; the Faculties of History, Arts and Regional Sciences and Social Sciences and Philosophy of the University of Leipzig; and the GWZO. The doctoral supervision at the GWZO is provided by Prof. Dr. Matthias Hardt.

Work focus

  • Early and high Middle Ages
  • The strongholds of Kouřim and the development of the town of Kouřim
  • Centres and their hinterland
  • Early medieval hillforts and central places, cemeteries

Current research topic

In the High Middle Ages, new castles were built in the vicinity of older, abandoned fortifications. The aim of this research is to find out why the old castles fell into ruin and new ones were built in the neighbourhood.

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