Giorgio Baruchello — Author Site

Giorgio Baruchello is professor of philosophy at the University of Akureyri, editor of Nordicum-Mediterraneum, and a prolific author across three languages. The site gathers a life's work into one place — books, peer-reviewed articles, editorial work and talks — so that a reader finds the work rather than hunting for it.

The challenge

A scholarly body of work spanning decades and three languages (Icelandic, English, Italian) tends to scatter: some on publisher pages, some in archives, some documented in personal records. The task was to build one durable place the author can maintain — with multilingual content and less dependence on external services.

The solution

• Trilingual localisation — content supports Icelandic, English and Italian; when a translation is unavailable, the work remains visible in its original language.
• Self-hosted content system. Payload holds books, articles and writing in a structured form the author can maintain himself — the CMS and its database are self-hosted.
• Self-hosted infrastructure. Next.js 16 + Payload 3 run on a self-managed Hetzner server, and the site is open to everyone.
• Editorial voice. Warm, scholarly and precise presentation that suits the material — design in service of the text.

The site is part of the Sumarhús portfolio: sovereign author sites built on self-hosted foundations, where the scholar maintains the content in a self-hosted system.