Stephan Busch

Stephan Busch (* 1966 in Cologne ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

Stephan Busch studied Latin and Greek at the University of Cologne and passed the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools in 1991. After two years as a research assistant, he received his doctorate in 1996 from Wolfgang Dieter Lebek with the dissertation Versus balnearum: The ancient poetry about baths and bathing in the Roman Empire . He then worked as a research assistant for Lebek at the University of Cologne.

In 2002 Busch received the Hendrik Casimir-Karl Ziegler Research Prize from the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences , which enabled him to spend a year researching at the University of Leiden . After returning to Cologne, he completed his habilitation in 2003 with the work Caesars Bellum Gallicum : Narrator standpoint and readers' horizon . He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Classical Studies at the University of Cologne until 2005, and from 2004 to 2006 also as a lecturer and university lecturer for Latin at the University of Leiden. In the summer semester of 2005, he was the chair of Latin at the University of Bonn . Busch has been Professor of Classical Philology (especially Latin Studies) at Trier University since 2006 .

His main research interests include the narrative technique and narrative structure of ancient texts, the ancient epigram , the inscribed transmission of literature and the history of the reception of ancient times.

literature

• Versus balnearum. The ancient poetry about baths and bathing in the Roman Empire . Teubner, Stuttgart, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-519-07256-4

Web links

• Literature by Stephan Busch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Stephan Busch at the University of Trier