Jiří Jung (b. 1982, Opava) is a graduate of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ostrava, where he studied art history, cultural history, and, at doctoral level, Czech and Czechoslovak history (2010). Since spring 2011, he has been a lecturer at the Department of Art History and Cultural Heritage at the same faculty, where he teaches mainly nineteenth- and twentieth-century art and architecture. His research centres on the architecture and art of Upper Silesia, including the Hlučín region, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has long devoted his studies to the Silesian princely house of Lichnowsky and its tradition of artistic patronage.
