Stefan Schorn

Stefan Schorn (born July 9, 1971 in Bad Staffelstein ) is a German classical philologist .

Schorn attended the Archbishop's College for Boys Ottonianum in Bamberg and passed his Abitur in 1991 at the Franz-Ludwig-Gymnasium . He then studied Classical Philology and Ancient History at the Universities of Bamberg and La Sapienza in Rome . In 2002 he did his doctorate in Bamberg with Klaus Döring with an edition of the fragments of the peripatetic and biographer Satyros von Kallatis . He then worked for several years as an assistant at the institutes for classical philology at the universities of Bamberg and Würzburg . In 2007 he received a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and spent a year as a research scholar at Rutgers University in New Brunswick (New Jersey) . Since January 1, 2009 he has been Professor of Ancient History at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and at the same time chairman of the Institute for Classical Philology there.

Stefan Schorn's research interests lie in the field of Greek historiography and biography, Greek state theory and religion. He is involved in the international research project Fragments of the Greek Historians and in its framework editor of Part IV: Biography and Antiquarian Literature .

Publications (selection)

• Satyros from Kallatis: Collection of the fragments with commentary. Schwabe, Basel 2004.
• with Klaus Döring , Michael Erler (eds.): Pseudoplatonica: files of the congress to the Pseudoplatonica from 6.-9. July 2003 in Bamberg. Steiner, Stuttgart 2005.
• with Michael Erler (ed.): The Greek biography in the Hellenistic period: files of the international congress from 26.-29. July 2006 in Würzburg. De Gruyter, Berlin 2007.

Web links

• Homepage at the University of Leuven
• Font directory

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rutgers Classics Department Blog
2. ↑ Katholieke Universiteit Leuven: Who's who
3. ↑ Brill Online Reference Works .