Rudolf Simek
Rudolf Simek is an Austrian Germanist and philologist.
Simek studied German literature, philosophy and Catholic theology in the University of Vienna, before becoming a librarian and a docent at the institution. He taught among others in the universities of Edinburgh, Tromsø and Sydney. Since 1995 he has been a Professor of German studies at the University of Bonn. Rudolf Simek is the editor-in-chief of Studia Medievalia Septentrionalia.
On 8 October 2013 Rudolf Simek received an honorary degree at the University of Rzeszów.Works
Rudolf Simek has translated into German 5 volumes of Norse sagas. He has also written numerous articles for journals and a number of books on the history of Germanic peoples, the Viking Age and Germanic mythology. The most important of them are:
- Lexikon der germanischen Mythologie, Stuttgart, :de:Alfred Kröner Verlag|Kröner, 1984
- Lexikon der altnordischen Literatur, Stuttgart, Kröner, 1987
- , Berlin/New York, de Gruyter, 1990
- Erde und Kosmos im Mittelalter. München, C.H. Beck, 1992.
- Die Wikinger, München, C.H. Beck,1998
- Religion und Mythologie der Germanen, Stuttgart, Theiss 2003
- Götter und Kulte der Germanen, München, C.H.Beck, 2004
- Runes, Magic and Religion: A Sourcebook, Wien, Fassbaender, 2004
- Mittelerde — Tolkien und die germanische Mythologie, München, C.H.Beck, 2005
- Der Glaube der Germanen, Limburg und Kevelaer, Lahn-Verlag, 2005
- Die Germanen, Stuttgart, Reclam, 2006.
