Wojciech Mohort-Kopaczyński
, b. 1960
MA in Classical philology, Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań. Affected by consecutive educational reforms, currently teaches Latin and Ancient Culture at the Piarist Fathers’ High School in Cracow. Co-author, with Teodozja Wikarjakówna, of high school Latin textbooks Disce Latine 1–2; author of Dawno temu w Helladzie. Mity greckie w wyborze dla dzieci [A Long Time Ago in Hellas. Selection of Greek Myths for Children], 2000, a collection of popular Greek myths adapted for children, and Starożytne ABC [Ancient ABC] also for children (unfortunately still in the desk drawer); translator (for a handful of grown–ups) of Aenigma fidei, Speculum fidei, Epistola ad fratres de Monte Dei by William of St-Thierry and of De miraculis by Peter the Venerable; these works were translated for the Publishing House of the Benedictines in Tyniec (the oldest Benedictine Abbey in Poland, near Cracow). Among the translations, two minorum gentium: John Scotus Eriugena’s Homily on the Prologue to the Gospel of St. John and the First Sermon on the Song of Songs by St-Bernard of Clairvaux.
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Bio prepared by Maria Kruhlak, University of Warsaw, maria.kruhlak@student.uw.edu.pl
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