Marc Laureys
Marc Laureys (* 1963 in Mechelen ) is a Belgian philologist in the field of Latin studies. He is professor for Middle and New Latin Philology at the University of Bonn .
Life
Laureys studied Classical Philology (M.A. 1985) and Philosophy (B.A. 1986) at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven . He continued his studies at Harvard University , where he received his Ph. D. in Medieval Latin in 1992 . From 1993 to 1996 he was a Junior Research Fellow at the Belgian Nationaal Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek .
Since 1997, Laureys has been Dieter Schaller's successor on the professorship for Medieval and Modern Latin Philology at the University of Bonn . He was and is involved in various international research projects. From 1997 to 2003 he was a member of the DFG graduate college The Renaissance in Italy and its European Reception . Since 2003 he has been a member of the Humanisme in de Nederlanden Commission of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts . In 2005 he founded the Center for the Classical Tradition at the University of Bonn together with Uwe Baumann and Konrad Vössing , and has been its spokesperson ever since. As part of the Excellence Initiative , he was in charge of the Theodosius Schoepffer's Gerontologia seu Tractatus de jure senum (1705) project from 2005 to 2006 .
Laureys was visiting professor at the Villa I Tatti in Florence (autumn 2005) and at the Center d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance in Tours (February 2011). He is a member of various academic societies, including the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (2000–2003 second vice-president; 2015–2018 first vice-president; 2018–2021 president) and the Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medio Evo Latino .
Fonts (selection)
- Ioannis Caballini de Cerronibus Polistoria de virtutibus et dotibus Romanorum ( Bibliotheca Teubneriana ). Teubner, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1995
- Editing
- with Christoph Bräunl, Silvan Mertens and Reimar Seibert-Kemp: The world of Justus Lipsius: a Contribution towards his Intellectual Biography
- with Beate Czapla and Karl August Neuhausen : Bonna solum felix… Bonn in modern Latin literature. Selected texts with introductions, translations and explanations . Cologne 2003
- with Astrid Steiner-Weber and Thomas A. Schmitz : Pictures of antiquity . Göttingen 2007 ( Super alta perennis. Studies on the effects of classical antiquity 1)
- with Roswitha Simons: The Art of Arguing. Staging, forms and functions of public disputes from a historical perspective . Göttingen 2010 ( Super alta perennis. Studies on the effects of classical antiquity 10)
- with Arnold Becker, Karl August Neuhausen and Georg Rudinger: Theodosius Schoepffer's “Gerontologia seu Tractatus de jure senum”. Cultural studies on a forgotten treatise on the law of the elderly . Göttingen 2011 ( Super alta perennis. Studies on the effects of classical antiquity 5)
- with Karl AE Enenkel and Christoph Pieper: Discourses of power. Ideology and politics in Neo-latin literature . Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2012 ( Noctes Neolatinae 17)
Web links
- Marc Laureys at the University of Bonn
- Literature by and about Marc Laureys in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Laureys, Marc |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mechelen |