Tobias Heiss studied Theology and Classical Philology at the University of Innsbruck and is currently a PhD candidate. His dissertation is dealing with a series of New Ancient Greek orations that were held at the University of Altdorf in the 17^th century and have, until now, gone entirely unnoticed by modern scholarship. Herein he deals with the specific place of spoken Ancient Greek, interconfessional encounters between Protestantism and Orthodoxy, political Hellenism, and relationships between Greek orators and their audiences.

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2028-0288

• New Ancient Greek (especially epigrams, orations, plays, and prayers)
• Confessional History
• Cultural and Political Hellenism

• „Niedermühlbichler, Bernard“, in: Uta Timpe-Bautz (ed.): Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, Nordhausen 2026/27, [in print] (available online: https://www.bbkl.de/index.php/frontend/lexicon/N/Ni-Nn/niedermhlbichlerbernard-88952).
• „A Hellenic Voice from the Tyrolean Lowlands”, Hermes. Platform for early modern Hellenism [blog entry], 02.12.2024, doi: 10.17613/mmsxq-axm34 (available online: https://earlymodernhellenism.org/2024/12/02/a-hellenic-voice-from-the-tyrolean-lowlands/).

• „‚In Greek, you’ll take it with more ease‘. Pointed Epigrams and Pious Prayers in 19^th Century Philhellenic Culture“, Final Talk of the Neo-Latin Fellowship, Innsbruck, 28.05.2025.
• „Der Lehrer Bernard Niedermühlbichler (1798–1850): Erbauliche Sprachübungen und didaktische Ansätze für den altsprachlichen Unterricht im 19. Jahrhundert“, AKMe Doctoral Program, Innsbruck, 28.06.2025.
• „Metrophanes Kritopoulos’ griechische Rede zum Weihnachtsfest 1625 an der Universität Altdorf“, Metageitnia XLV, Innsbruck, 17.01.2026.
• „Griechische Schülergespräche: Praxis und Nutzen“, Österreichische Tagung zur Didaktik der alten Sprachen. Forschung und Praxis im Dialog, Innsbruck, 28.02.2026.

• Neo-Latin Fellowship, Department for Classical Philology and Neo-Latin Studies, University of Innsbruck, January–April 2025.