Stefan Tilg

Stefan Tilg (born July 2, 1976 in Zams ) is an Austrian classical and neo-Latin philologist .

Life

Stefan Tilg studied classical philology and German at the University of Innsbruck from 1994 to 2000 . He spent a year at the University of Siena in 1999/2000 as part of the Erasmus program . After passing the state examination, he completed a teaching internship at the Reithmannstrasse grammar school in Innsbruck from 2000 to 2001; then he took up a doctoral degree in Classical Philology / Latin. From 2002 to 2003 he was research assistant in the project History of Latin Literature in Tyrol . Even after his departure, he continued to work as a freelancer in this project until the end of 2012.

After his doctorate as Dr. phil. (2003) Tilg worked as an assistant at the Latin chair at the University of Bern . The Swiss National Science Foundation awarded him a research grant for his project Poetics in the Ancient Roman , which enabled him to spend a longer period at Corpus Christi College at Oxford University (2006 to 2009). Tilg then received another grant from the National Fund for the Apuleius and the Ancient Novel project , which he pursued at the University of Zurich . At the same time he completed his habilitation in Zurich in 2009/2010 in Classical Philology and Modern Latin Philology.

In 2011 Tilg was appointed director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies in Innsbruck. At the same time he held lectures at the University of Zurich as a private lecturer until 2014. In the 2014/15 winter semester, he accepted a professorship for Latin Studies at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg .

Stefan Tilg's main research interests are the ancient novel, neo-Latin literature and the reception of ancient literature.

Fonts (selection)

• Hope for a golden age or Tyrolis pacifica. Text, translation, commentary and epilogue. Innsbruck 2000, (Innsbruck, University, diploma thesis, 2000).
• Spes aurei saeculi. Hope for a golden age or Tyrolis pacifica. A Jesuit play from Innsbruck for the wedding of Archduke Ferdinand Karl with Anna Medici (1646) (= Commentationes Aenipontanae. 34, ZDB -ID 528629-3 = Commentationes Aenipontanae. Tirolensia Latina. 4). Wagner, Innsbruck 2002, ISBN 3-7030-0373-1 .
• with Florian Schaffenrath : Achilles in Tirol. The "Bavarian hype" 1703 in the "Epitome rerum Oenovallensium" (= Commentationes Aenipontanae. 35, ZDB -ID 528629-3 = Commentationes Aenipontanae. Tirolensia Latina. 5). Introduced, translated and commented. Wagner, Innsbruck 2004, ISBN 3-7030-0386-3 .
• St. Catherine of Alexandria on the Jesuit stage. Three Innsbruck dramas from the years 1576, 1577 and 1606 (= early modern times. 101). Niemeyer, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-484-36601-X (Partly at the same time: Innsbruck, University, dissertation, 2003: The Innsbruck Jesuit dramas on St. Catherine from the years 1576, 1577, 1606. ).
• Chariton of Aphrodisias and the Invention of the Greek Love Novel. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-957694-4 .
• Apuleius' Metamorphoses. A Study in Roman Fiction. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-870683-0 .

Web links

• Stefan Tilg at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg