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Rudolf Simek
Photographed in October 2012
Born	(1954-02-21)21 February 1954 (age 71) Eisenstadt, Austria
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Vienna
Academic advisors	Otto Gschwantler Helmut Birkhan
Academic work
Discipline	Germanic studies
Institutions	University of Bonn
Main interests	Germanic religion andmythology Medieval science and popular religion Old Norse literature Old Norse religion andmythology Vikings and theViking Age
Notable works	Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)

Rudolf Simek (born 21 February 1954) is an Austrian philologist and religious studies scholar who is Professor and Chair of AncientGerman andNordic Studies at theUniversity of Bonn. Simek specializes inGermanic studies, and is the author of several notable works onGermanic religion andmythology (includingOld Norse religion andmythology),Germanic peoples,Vikings,Old Norse literature, and the culture ofMedieval Europe.

Since 1995, Simek has been Professor and Chair of Ancient German and Nordic Studies at theUniversity of Bonn.^[1] Simek was appointed Professor of Comparative Religion at theUniversity of Tromsø in 1999, and Professor of Old Nordic Studies at theUniversity of Sydney in 2000. Simek has held a number of visiting professorships, having had long research stays at the universities ofReykjavik,Copenhagen, London,Oxford andSydney. From 2000 to 2003, Simek was Chairman of the International Saga Society (German: Internationale Saga-Gesellschaft). Simek is a member of many additional learned societies, including theInternational Arthurian Society, the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Germanistik, theViking Society for Northern Research, the Society for Northern Studies, and theRoyal Gustavus Adolphus Academy.^[1]

Simek researches a wide variety of topics connected to theMiddle Ages. This includesGermanic religion andmythology (includingOld Norse religion andmythology),Vikings and theViking Age,Old Norse literature, andmedieval science (includingastronomy) and popular religion. Simek has published a number of notable works on these subjects, several of which have been translated into multiple languages.^[1]

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• Lexikon der germanischen Mythologie, Stuttgart,Kröner, 1984ISBN 3-520-36801-3 (translations to English, French and Icelandic)
• Lexikon der altnordischen Literatur (with Hermann Pálsson), Stuttgart, Kröner, 1987ISBN 3-520-49001-3
• Altnordische Kosmographie. Studien und Quellen zu Weltbild und Weltbeschreibung in Norwegen und Island vom 12. bis zum 14. Jahrhundert, Berlin/New York, de Gruyter, 1990 (Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde. Ergänzungsbände, Bd. 4)ISBN 3-11-012181-6
• Erde und Kosmos im Mittelalter. München, C.H. Beck, 1992.ISBN 3-406-35863-2
• Die Wikinger, München, C.H. Beck, 1998ISBN 3-406-41881-3 (translation to Spanish)
• Religion und Mythologie der Germanen, Stuttgart, Theiss 2003ISBN 3-8062-1821-8
• Götter und Kulte der Germanen, München, C.H. Beck, 2004ISBN 3-406-50835-9
• Runes, Magic and Religion: A Sourcebook (with John McKinnell und Klaus Düwel), Wien, Fassbaender, 2004ISBN 978-3-900538-81-1
• Mittelerde – Tolkien und die germanische Mythologie, München, C.H. Beck, 2005ISBN 3-406-52837-6
• Der Glaube der Germanen, Limburg und Kevelaer, Lahn-Verlag, 2005ISBN 3-7867-8495-7
• Die Germanen, Stuttgart,Reclam, 2006.ISBN 3-15-017051-6
• Die Edda. C. H. Beck, München 2007,ISBN 978-3-406-56084-2 (C. H. Beck Wissen).
• Ewige Orte. Reliquien und heiligen Stätten in Wien. Metro, Wien 2007,ISBN 978-3-902517-64-7.
• Artus-Lexikon. Mythos und Geschichte, Werke und Personen der europäischen Artusdichtung. Reclam, Stuttgart 2012,ISBN 978-3-15-010858-1.
• Die Schiffe der Wikinger. Reclam, Stuttgart 2014,ISBN 978-3-15-010999-1.
• Monster im Mittelalter. Die phantastische Welt der Wundervölker und Fabelwesen. Böhlau, Köln, Weimar, Wien 2015.ISBN 978-3-412-21111-0.
• Vinland! Wie die Wikinger Amerika entdeckten. C. H. Beck, München 2016,ISBN 978-3-406-69720-3.
• Trolle. Ihre Geschichte von der Mythologie bis zum Internet. Böhlau, Köln/Weimar/Wien 2018,ISBN 978-3-412-50743-5.
• Die Geschichte der Normannen. Von Wikingerhäuptlingen zu Königen Siziliens. Reclam, Ditzingen 2018,ISBN 978-3-15-011174-1.
• Monster im Mittelalter. Köln und Wien: Böhlau 2019,ISBN 978-3412514037

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