Jan Felix Gaertner

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Jan Felix Gaertner (born March 30, 1976 in Bonn ) is a German classical philologist .

After studying Classical Philology and Romance Studies at the Universities of Bonn and Oxford , he received his doctorate in 2002 as a DPhil . His dissertation, a commentary on Ovid's first book Epistulae ex Ponto , was supervised by Oliver Lyne . His doctorate was followed by a nine-month guest stay at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich and a one-year stay at the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Friborg , where Gaertner worked on an edition of the Ethnika des Stephanos von Byzantium . From 2004 to 2010 Gaertner worked as a research assistant or assistant to Marcus Deufert at the University of Leipzig . After his habilitation (2011) and two professorships in Heidelberg ( Jonas Grethlein ) and Bamberg ( Sabine Föllinger ), he moved to Harvard University in spring 2012 ; there he was a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Lecturer on the Classics. Since summer 2013 he has been Professor of Classical Philology with a focus on Latin Philology at the University of Cologne .

Past and current research focuses on ancient exile literature, the relationship between law and literature, and ancient comedy and historiography.

In 2019 Gaertner was elected to the Academia Europaea .

Fonts (selection)

  • Ovid. Epistulae ex Ponto, Book I. Edited with introduction, translation, and commentary (= Oxford classical monographs ). Oxford University Press Oxford 2005 (= Dissertation University of Oxford 2001), ISBN 978-0-19-927721-6 .
  • Writing exiles. The Discourse of Displacement in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Beyond (= Mnemosyne . Supplement volume 283), Leiden / Boston 2007, ISBN 978-90-04-15515-2 .
  • Ancient Law and the Greco-Roman New Comedy. Investigations into Plautus and his Greek models . 2 volumes. (= Habilitation thesis Universität Leipzig 2011).
  • with Bianca C. Hausburg: Caesar and the Bellum Alexandrinum. An Analysis of Style, Narrative Technique, and the Reception of Greek Historiography (= Hypomnemata . Volume 192). Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-525-25300-7 .

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SURNAME Gaertner, Jan Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn