University of Innsbruck
Department for Classical Philology and Neo-Latin Studies

Innrain 52a (Ágnes-Heller-Haus)
A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria

email: magdalena.rufin@uibk.ac.at

• 2008: Matura diploma at Humanistisches Gymnasium in Bozen (with honors)
• 2008–2017: Student in Latin philology and Indo-European linguistics at the University of Innsbruck; graduation with two master’s degrees
• 2018: Collaborator on the project ‘Brixner Schultheater im 18. Jahrhundert’ at the University of Innsbruck
• 2017–2019: Employee in the Special Collections Department of the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol; main task: cataloguing of the manuscripts in the Historical Library of the Servite Monastery in Innsbruck
• Since 2019: PhD student in Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Innsbruck
• 2019–2020: Collaborator on the cataloguing project of the manuscript collection of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum
• 2019–2023: Predoc researcher in the project ‘Hidden roots of Austrian Humanism – Johannes Fuchsmagen’ at the Universities of Innsbruck and Munich
• 2023–2024: Predoc researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies in Innsbruck
• 2024–2026: Researcher in the project ‘Digitale Erschließung der Rechnungsbücher des Klosters Aldersbach’ at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna
• Since 2026: Predoc researcher in the SRA project ‘Neo-Latin in the Modern World’ at the University of Innsbruck – subproject ‘Viva Vox’

• Neo-Latin poetry
• Biography and works of Engelhard Funck
• Codicology, palaeography and manuscript cataloguing
• Neo-Latin monastery accounts

• Edition, translation and commentary of the ‘Codex Fuchsmagen’ (ULBT, Cod. 664), digital publication (https://fuchsmagen.wisski.uibk.ac.at/), Innsbruck 2023. [co-authored with Rocco di Dio]
• Die Handschriften der Historischen Bibliothek des Innsbrucker Servitenklosters – eine Überblicksdarstellung, in: Tiroler Heimat 87 (2023), 141–196.
• Engelhard Funck and the Golden Age of Pope Innocent VIII, in: Neulateinisches Jahrbuch 26 (2025), 163–197. [co-authored with Luke B. T. Houghton]
• The Latin account books of Aldersbach Monastery (KAAA343–352 and KAAA398–401), in: Klugseder, Robert (ed.): Kloster Aldersbach Digital (www.alderspach.de/kad/), Vienna 2026.
• Die digitale Edition der Rechnungsbücher des Zisterzienserklosters Aldersbach 1449-1567, in the conference proceedings of the conference „Edieren im digitalen Zeitalter. Herausforderungen und Chancen“, Munich 07/2025. (in preparation)

Unpublished Research:

• Catalogue of approx. 500 medieval and early modern manuscripts from the Historical Library of the Servite Monastery in Innsbruck (available on request at the Special Collections Department of the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol)

• Presentations on codicological topics at the book presentation of the 10th volume of the ‘Katalog der Handschriften der Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek’ at the ULBT Innsbruck (7/5/2018)
• ‘Vatis sit tibi cura tui. Der ‘Codex Fuchsmagen’ – Ein Zeugnis humanistischer Hofdichtung’ at the conference ‘Johannes Fuchsmagen. Ein Tiroler Humanist am Hofe Kaiser Friedrichs III. und Maximilians I.’ at the University of Munich (28/9/2022)
• ‘Vati prospice, dive, tuo! Der „Codex Fuchsmagen“ – Ein Zeugnis humanistischer Hofdichtung’ at the conference ‘Eleganza di linguaggio e nobilità – Da Marsilio Ficino e Massimiliano allʼintelligenza artificiale / Nobility and elegance of language – From Marsilio Ficino and Maximilian to AI’ at the University of Vienna (17–18/10/2024)
• ‘Die lateinischen Rechnungsbücher des Klosters Aldersbach 1449–1551’ at the symposium ‘Digitale Erschließung der Rechnungsbücher des Klosters Aldersbach’, organised in Aldersbach by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (8–10/10/2025)