Christopher B. Krebs

Christopher B. Krebs (* in Berlin ) is a German classical philologist . Krebs' main research interests are Greek and Roman historiography, Latin lexicography and the classical tradition.

Career

Christopher B. Krebs studied classical philology and philosophy in Berlin, Oxford (Master of Studies 2002) and Kiel (1st state examination 2000, dissertation 2003). He was a lecturer at University College Oxford before being appointed Assistant Professor of Classics at Harvard University in 2004. During his time as Assistant Professor at Harvard, he was Professeur Invité at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 2007 and an APA scholarship holder at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich in 2008/09 . He was named Associate Professor of Classics at Harvard in 2009 before being named Associate Professor of Classics at Stanford University in 2012.

Krebs has written two scientific monographs on the reception of Tacitus ' Germania ; the first, Negotiatio Germaniae: Tacitus' Germania and Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Giannantonio Campano, Conrad Celtis and Heinrich Bebelm , appeared in 2005 and the second, A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich was published in 2011, was in translated seven languages ​​(including German, Spanish and Chinese) and received the Christian Gauss Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He is also the author of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae and Der Neue Pauly and author of over 20 magazine articles. He is currently working on a wide variety of projects including studies on Caesar , Latin historiography, Poseidonius and Annius of Viterbo .

He has also taught the Stanford Humanities Institute Summer Course on Rome, which discusses Roman figures and speakers such as Tacitus.

Publications (selection)

• Negotiatio Germaniae: Tacitus' Germania and Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Giannantonio Campano, Conrad Celtis and Heinrich Bebel. (= Hypomnemata 158). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-25257-9 (= dissertation).
• A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich . WW Norton, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0393342925 .
  • German: A dangerous book. The "Germania" of Tacitus and the invention of the Germans . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-421-04211-8 .
• with Jonas Grethlein (Ed.): Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography: The 'Plupast' from Herodotus to Appian . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012, ISBN 978-1107007406 .

Web links

• Web site at Stanford University
• Interview with Krebs in October 2013 about his research on Caesar