Jiří Dynda

{{Short description|Czech researcher with interests in religious studies, folklore and medieval studies}}

Jiří Dynda (born 1988) is a Czech researcher with interests in religious studies, folklore and medieval studies.[https://aleph.nkp.cz/F/?func=direct&doc_number=000943259&local_base=AUT Dynda, Jiří, 1988-], Databáze Národní knihovny ČR[https://www.slu.cas.cz/en/zamestnanec/jiri-dynda Mgr. Jiří Dynda, Ph.D.], Slavic Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

{{As of|2023}} he is with the {{ill|Institute of Slavonic Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic|cs|Slovanský ústav Akademie věd České republiky}}.[https://web.archive.org/web/20230330120331/https://www.learned.cz/cz/oceneni/nositele-cen-ucene-spolecnosti/nositele-cen-za-rok-2022.html Nositelé cen za rok 2022], Learned Society of the Czech Republic

In 2021 he earned his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, thesis: "Gods and Demons: The Construction of the Slavic Paganism in the Medieval Textual Sources".{{cite journal|url=https://dspace.cuni.cz/handle/20.500.11956/171238|title=Bohové a běsi: Konstrukce slovanského pohanství ve středověkých písemných pramenech {{pipe}} Digitální repozitář UK|website=dspace.cuni.cz|date=9 November 2021 |access-date=2024-07-30 |last1=Dynda |first1=Jiří }}