Fellow from University of Marburg
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Biography
16.03.2000: Born in Düren (Germany)
10/2018 – 09/2022: Bachelor’s degree in Latin, Ancient Greek and Educational Studies at the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn
09/2022 – 08/2023: Federal Volunteers Service at the Protestand Students’ Parish Bonn
10/2023 – 05/2026: Master’s degree in Classics at the Philipps University of Marburg
01/2025 – 06/2025: Erasmus stay at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
06/2026 – 08/2026: Neolatin Research Fellowship at the Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck
Publications
- 2025: The problems with Claudius’ missing ascension in Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis in: Sapiens Ubique Civis VI, S. 109–122.
Talks
- 05/2024: The Curious Case of the Four Translations of the [Theocritean] Κηριοκλέπτης by Helius Eobanus Hessus, 2nd IJsewijn Lecture & Laboratorium, Leuven
- 08/2024: The problems with Claudius’ missing ascension in Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis, Sapiens Ubique Civis XI, Szeged
- 07/2025: Greek Tragedy and Roman Morals – Sophocles and Euripides in the Epigrammata of Philipp Melanchthon, 19th International Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, Aix-en-Provence
- 09/2025: ’That room was some sort of Platonic microcosm’ – Educational Culture in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, Sapiens Ubique Civis XII, Szeged
- 10/2025: Sybarin cur properes amando perdere? – A fresh interpretation of Horace, Ode 1.8, Colloquium Balticum XXI, Lund
- 05/2026: From Soracte to the Vistula: Conrad Celtis’ Ode 1.9 between Innovation and Tradition, 4th IJsewijn Lecture & Laboratorium, Leuven
Benedikt Zett’s Contributions and Activities
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On 8 June 2026, Prof Dr Michaela Wiesinger from the Institute of German Studies (Innsbruck University) visited our SRA. We presented to her in particular those research projects that are closely related to German humanism (Delila Jordan, Ivan Mazhaev, Benedikt Zett), and in turn gained insights into her work, particularly her ERC project “German Arithmetical…
