Peter Kruschwitz

Peter Kruschwitz (* 1973 ) is a German classical philologist and epigraphist .

Career

Peter Kruschwitz studied Latin and Greek philology at the Free University of Berlin . In 1999 he received his doctorate there with Gabriele Thome . From 1997 to 2007 he was employed at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences as a research assistant at the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum . From 2005 to 2007 he was an Emmy Noether fellow at the University of Oxford , where he was a visiting fellow at All Souls College in 2007 . Kruschwitz was then appointed to the University of Reading , where he was appointed Professor of Classics in 2011.

In 2019 Kruschwitz was elected to the Academia Europaea .

research

In his research, Kruschwitz is primarily concerned with the Latin language, literature and epigraphy of the Roman Republic. He has emerged with numerous publications, especially on the Carmina Latina Epigraphica , Plautus , Terenz , the Pompeian wall inscriptions and generally on Latin linguistics. Kruschwitz is one of the few Latinists who dedicate themselves to documentary and literary sources to the same extent.

Publications (a selection)

• Carmina Saturnia Epigraphica. Introduction, text and commentary on the Saturnian verse inscriptions . Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2002 (also Diss. Phil. FU Berlin 1999).
• Terence . Olms-Verlag, Hildesheim 2004.
• Roman inscriptions and Wackernagel's law. Investigations into the syntax of epigraphic texts from the Republican era . Winter-Verlag, Heidelberg 2004.
• The pre-classical didactic poem of the Romans . Heidelberg 2005 (with Matthias Schumacher).
• Terentius Poeta . Beck, Munich 2007 (with Widu-Wolfgang Ehlers and Fritz Felgentreu ).
• The metric inscriptions of the Roman Republic . W. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2007.

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Kruschwitz in the catalog of the German National Library
• University homepage of Peter Kruschwitz