prof. PhDr. Tomáš Hlobil, CSc.

Researcher at the Department of Historiography and Art Theory.

Tomáš Hlobil studied Czech and German Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Palacký University. He completed his doctoral studies in aesthetics at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in 1992. From 1993 to 2017 he worked at the Faculty of Arts of Palacký University as an assistant professor, associate professor (2000) and professor (2004). Since 1996 he has been working in the same positions at the Department of Aesthetics of the Faculty of Arts of Charles University. Since 2018, he has been a researcher at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, v. v. i. His research focuses on the history of general aesthetics, general art theory and art theory from the end of the 17th to the mid-19th century, with a special interest in the early history of aesthetic thought in the Czech lands and the theory and history of aesthetic historiography.

Research outputs (selection):

Tomáš Hlobil, Ästhetik der objektivierenden Nüchternheit. Bernard Bolzano und Franz Xaver Niemestschek, Hannover 2026, s. 288.

Tomáš Hlobil, Franz Ficker (1782–1849). Österreichische Ästhetik unter Staatsaufsicht vor dem Herbartianismus, Frankfurt am Main etc. 2020, 322 s.

Tomáš Hlobil, Geschmacksbildung im Nationalinteresse II. Der Abschluss der frühen Prager Universitätsästhetik im mitteleuropäischen Kulturraum 1805–1848, Hannover 2018, 430 s.

Tomáš Hlobil, The Reception of the Enquiry in the German-Language Area in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century: August Gottlieb Meissner and Johann Gottfried Herder, in: Martin Fitzpatrick – Peter Jones (edd.), The Reception of Edmund Burke in Europe, London etc. 2017, s. 279–296.

Tomáš Hlobil, Geschmacksbildung im Nationalinteresse. Die Anfänge der Prager Universitätsästhetik im mitteleuropäischen Kulturraum 1763–1805, Hannover 2012, 458 s.

Current projects:

Historiografické modely dějin estetiky před vznikem dějin estetiky.

The Influence of the Vienna School of Art History.