Thomas Schmidt (classical philologist)

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Thomas S. Schmidt (* 1966 ) is a Swiss classical philologist .

Life

He studied in Freiburg im Üechtland and Oxford and worked at the Universities of Louvain-la-Neuve (1997–1998), Leuven (1998–2002) and Laval (Québec) (2002–2009). He has been Professor of Classical Philology and an expert on Greek language and literature since 2009.

His main research interests are the work of Plutarch , the literature of the Second Sophistics , papyrology and Greek patristics .

He is a member of the Swiss Matura Commission and President of the Swiss Matura Examination Jury at the Gambach College in Friborg.

Fonts (selection)

  • Plutarque et les barbaren. La rhétorique d'une image (= Collection d'études classiques. Volume 14). Peeters, Louvain 1999, ISBN 90-429-0778-9 (also dissertation, Friborg 1997).
  • as editor: Basilii Minimi in Gregorii Nazianzeni orationem XXXVIII commentarii (= Corpus Christianorum. Series Graeca. Volume 46). Brepols, Turnhout 2001, ISBN 2-503-40461-8 .
  • as editor with Agathe Roman and Paul-Hubert Poirier : Titus de Bostra: Contre les manichéens (= Corpus Christianorum. Series Graeca. Volume 83). Brepols, Turnhout 2015, ISBN 2-503-55017-7 .
  • as editor with Arlette Neumann-Hartmann: Munera Friburgensia. Festschrift in honor of Margarethe Billerbeck . Peter Lang, Bern / Berlin / Brussels / Frankfurt am Main / New York / Oxford / Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-0343-1443-5 .

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SURNAME Schmidt, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Thomas S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1966