After studying at the Free University of Berlin (2013-2018), I completed my DPhil in Classical languages and literature at the University of Oxford in 2022 with a thesis on the didactic strategies in Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria, the most extensive ancient handbook on rhetoric extant. In the PhiSci project, I engage with the history of Classical philology in 19th-century Europe (especially in Germany, but also in France, England, and Italy), focusing in detail on a number of key standardized techniques of philological work while setting them against the backdrop of the theoretical debates surrounding them and of the multi-national scholarly networks practicing them.
