Notes on the Contributors
Johanna Akujärvi
is an Associate Professor of Greek and a Research Fellow at the Centre of Languages and Literature in the University of Lund, Sweden. Her research interests include Pausanias the perieget in particular, Greek literature of the Roman Empire, narratology, the classical tradition, especially in the context of teaching and university, the history of translation of classical literature in Sweden, and Humanist Greek in the Baltic Sea area. She is currently working on Swedish translations of Greek drama, and is involved in creating an open access database of Humanist Greek texts from the former Swedish Empire. Her publications include Retoriken: Aristoteles (2012); Researcher, Traveller, Narrator: Studies in Pausanias’ Periegesis (2005); co-edited volumes Gender and Translation. Understanding Agents in Transnational Reception (2018) and For particular reasons: studies in honour of Jerker Blomqvist (2003).
Tommi Alho
is a member of the English Department of Åbo Akademi University, Finland. His research focuses on historical linguistics, early modern rhetoric, and Neo-Latin Literature. He has recently finished his PhD on classical education in Restoration grammar schools. He is the co-editor (with J. Finch and R.D. Sell) of Renaissance Man: Essays on Literature and Culture for Anthony W. Johnson (2019).
Sibylle Appuhn-Radtke
is a German art historian in Munich. She received her PhD in 1983 at the University of Freiburg. From 1987 to 1991, she held scholarships in Italy while preparing her habilitation at Erlangen-Nuremberg (1996). Since 1991, she has held teaching positions at the Universities of Marburg, Augsburg, Passau, Erlangen and Cracow. From 1992 to 2018, she was a member of the scientific staff at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich and the co-editor of Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte, and, from 2003 to 2005, the co-editor of entries on art in Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit. From 2004 until 2018, she was assistant professor of art history at the University of Erlangen. Her publications mostly focus on two fields: Baroque iconography and cultural history as well as the architecture of the 19th and early 20th century. Her main publications in the first area are Das Thesenblatt im Hochbarock (1988), and Visuelle Medien im Dienst der Gesellschaft Jesu. Johann Christoph Storer (1620–1671) als Maler der Katholischen Reform (2000).
Alberto Bardi
is postdoctoral researcher (Polonsky fellow) at The Polonsky Academy of Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. His areas of expertise are Byzantine Studies and the history of science. His book Persische Astronomie in Byzanz: Ein Beitrag zur Byzantinistik und zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte is in print for the series Münchner Arbeiten zur Byzantinistik.
Daria Barow-Vassilevitch
studied at the Lomonosov State University (Moscow) and at the Free University of Berlin, where she earned her PhD with ‘Ich schwime in der gotheit als ein adeler in dem lufft!’ Heiligkeitsmuster in der Vitenliteratur des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts (2005). She is the author of Elisabeth von Thüringen. Heilige, Minnekönigin, Rebellin (2007), Die heilige Herzogin. Das Leben der Hedwig von Schlesien (2007) and Abendländische Handschriften des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit in den Beständen der Russischen Staatsbibliothek (Moskau) in German (2016) and Russian (together with M.-L. Heckmann, 2017). Barow’s research interests gradually shifted to the library and book history as well as to the university history of the Early Modern Age, especially Königsberg topics. Currently, she works at Berlin State Library, Manuscript department, in the project „Handschriftenportal“.
William M. Barton
is a Key Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Innsbruck. His previous work has focused predominantly on the representation of the natural world in early modern Latin literature. Here, changes in cultural attitude towards the mountain, the literary description of landscape, and the depiction of natural environments in the ‘New World’ count among his chief research interests. His Mountain Aesthetics in Early Modern Latin Literature (2016) belongs to the principal results of his work in the field. In his latest project, begun in 2018, he is studying the role of Latin literary production at the early modern university in the contemporary development of natural philosophy and the ‘New Science’.
Jan-Hendryk de Boer
is postdoctoral researcher at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His research interests are medieval and early modern intellectual history, history of the universities, humanism and scholasticism. Currently he is working on a book about the Avignon papacy. He has published two books on humanism, Unerwartete Absichten – Genealogie des Reuchlinkonflikts (2016) and Die Gelehrtenwelt ordnen. Zur Genese des hegemonialen Humanismus (2017); together with Marian Füssel and Maximilian Schuh he is editor of Universitäre Gelehrtenkultur vom 13.–16. Jahrhundert. Ein interdisziplinäres Quellen- und Methodenhandbuch (2017). He recently edited Praxisformen. Zur kulturellen Logik von Zukunftshandeln (2019).
Laurence Brockliss
is emeritus professor in early modern French history at the University of Oxford and an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College Oxford. He is a historian of education, science and medicine with a particular interest in the history of universities and their role in knowledge creation and dissemination. His books include: French Higher Education in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1987); The Medical World of Early-Modern France (with Colin Jones, 1997); Calvet’s Web: Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century France (2002); and The University of Oxford: A History (2016). His is a Fellow of the British Academy.
Donald Felipe
is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of Liberal Studies at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. His primary research interests are ethics and the history of philosophy and logic, with special emphasis on the theory and practice of disputation in the 16th and 17th centuries. His works on disputation and the history of logic include his dissertation The Post-Medieval Ars Disputandi (1991). Felipe also manages courses, predominately online, in ethics, critical thinking, social sciences, arts and humanities in support of undergraduate professional programs serving non-traditional, adult students.
Gábor Förköli
is an assistant lecturer of early Hungarian literature at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. He received his PhD in 2017 from Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4), with Écriture et contingence: Fortuna, lieux communs et exemples historiques dans la littérature politique du XVIIe siècle. His current research project is a monograph of commonplacing and excerpting in early modern Hungary.
Joseph S. Freedman
is Professor of History at Alabama State University. His principal research interest is academic (scholastic and humanistic) philosophy during the early modern period (with a primary focus on Central Europe) within the broader contexts of the history of academic instruction, the history of academic disciplines, and the history of ideas/concepts. His publications include European Academic Philosophy in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries: The Life, Significance, and Philosophy of Clemens Timpler, 1563/64–1624 (1988); Philosophy and the Arts in Central Europe, 1500–1700: Teaching and Texts at European Schools and Universities (1999), and the edited volume Die Zeit um 1670: Eine Wende in der europäischen Geschichte und Kultur? (2016).
Reinhold F. Glei
is Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Bochum (Germany). His research interests cover a wide range of genres, epochs and authors from Greek and Roman Antiquity up to the 19th century. A central focus is on Neo-Latin literature and the reception of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. His numerous publications include the commented editions and translations Petrus Venerabilis, Schriften zum Islam (1985), Nikolaus von Kues, Sichtung des Korans (co-editor L. Hagemann, 3 vols. 1989–1993), Johannes Damaskenos und Theodor Abu Qurra, Schriften zum Islam (co-editor A. Th. Khoury, 1995), Pius II. Papa, Epistola ad Mahumetem (co-editor M. Köhler, 2001), and Ludovico Marracci at work: The evolution of his Latin translation of the Qur’an in the light of his newly discovered manuscripts (co-editor R. Tottoli, 2016).
Stephanie Hellekamps
studied philosophy, German philology, historiography and paedagogy, and earned her doctor’s degree in 1990 at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster; 1996 habilitation at Humboldt-Universität of Berlin. Since 1999 she is professor of educational science at the Westfälische Wilhelmsuniversität in Münster. Her book publications include the following works (with Hans-Ulrich Musolff each): Geschichte des pädagogischen Denkens (2006), Zwischen Schulhumanismus und Frühaufklärung. Zum Unterricht an westfälischen Gymnasien 1600–1750 (2009); Lehrer an westfälischen Gymnasien der Frühen Neuzeit (2014).
Andreas Hellerstedt
earned his Ph.D. in the history of ideas at Stockholm University (Sweden). His research focuses on early modern political thought, the history of moral philosophy, as well as early modern education and the history of universities. In particular, he has studied mirrors for princes in the Scandinavian countries (ca 1200–1700) and Swedish dissertations on politics (ca 1650–1750). He is the editor of a recent volume on Virtue Ethics and Education from late Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century (2018), and co-editor of Shaping Heroic Virtue: The Art and Politics of Supereminence in Europe and Scandinavia (2015). In his Ph.D. (2009) he has studied the concepts of fate, fortune and providence in early 18th century Sweden.
Axel Hörstedt
took his PhD in Latin from the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) with his thesis Latin Dissertations and Disputations in the Early Modern Swedish Gymnasium. A Study of a Latin School Tradition c. 1620–c. 1820 (2018). His research interests include early modern Swedish disputation culture. Currently, he is researcher at the Department of Education at Uppsala University where he studies network-building among early modern Uppsala university students. Also, he is high school lecturer in languages at Katedralskolan in Uppsala.
Sari Kivistö
is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Tampere University, Finland, and a former Director of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. Since 2018, she is an invited member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (Academia Scientiarum Fennica) and, since 2017, of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters (Societas Scientiarum Fennica). Her research interests include epistemic vices, suffering and antitheodicy in Neo-Latin satire, Neo-Latin dissertations, and academic history. Her edited books include Lucubrationes Neolatinae. Readings of Neo-Latin Dissertations and Satires (2019), Kantian Antitheodicy. Philosophical and Literary Varieties (with Sami Pihlström, 2016), The Vices of Learning. Morality and Knowledge at Early Modern Universities (2014), and Medical Analogy in Latin Satire (2009). She has also translated numerous medical, ornithological and rhetorical dissertations from Latin into Finnish.
Tua Korhonen
is assistant professor in Greek Literature at the University of Helsinki. She is specialized in “Humanist Greek” in early modern Finland and Sweden; currently, she is working in the project Helleno-Nordica, which aims to collect Nordic and Baltic Humanist Greek texts. She has widely published on Humanist Greek (also in her e-thesis, University of Helsinki, 2004). Furthermore, she has co-written a monograph on Johan Paulinus’ (Lillienstedt) oration Magnus Principatus Finlandia (2000), and another (with Erika Ruonakoski) on Human and Animal in Ancient Greece: Empathy and Encounter in Classical Literature (2017).
Annamaria Lesigang-Bruckmüller
worked as an assistant and lecturer at the Department of Classical Philology, Medieval and Neo-Latin at Vienna University. In the course of her dissertation entitled Eine Oratio academica als Reisebericht? – Johann Christoph Gottscheds Reise nach Wien im Spiegel seiner Universitätsrede Singularia Vindobonensia (2017) she became interested in the occasional literature of German university professors in the Early Modern Age and its conventions. Another focus of her research is on Neo-Latin literature in the Habsburg Empire. Currently she is co-worker with Edition der Korrespondenz von Sigismund Herberstein.
Urs B. Leu
is Director of the Rare Book Department at the Zentralbibliothek Zürich. He teaches book history at the University of Zurich. He published widely on the Swiss polymath Conrad Gessner (1516–1565) and wrote a comprehensive biography, in 2016, on Gessner, which will soon appear in an English translation. He is also the author of several contributions on other important Zurich scholars like Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672–1733), Johannes Gessner (1709–1790) and Oswald Heer (1809–1883), and on early modern book history.
Bo Lindberg
is emeritus Professor of the History of Ideas and Learning at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden). His research interests include the history of classical scholarship, the history of universities, Lipsius and political humanism, Latin and Swedish political vocabulary in the early modern period. His main monographs are Naturrätten I Uppsala 1655–1720 (1976), De lärdes modersmål. Latin, humanism och vetenskap I 1700-talets Sverige (1984), Stoicism och stat. Justus Lipsius och den politiska humanismen (2001), Den antika skevheten. Politiska ord och begrepp i det tidigmoderna Sverige (2006), The Pufendorf lectures. Annotations from the teaching of Samuel Pufendorf 1672–1674 (2014) and Den akademika läxan. Om föreläsningens historia (2017).
Véronique Meyer
is professor of art history at the university of Poitiers (France). She specializes on French engravings of the 17th and 18th centuries. She is the author of L’illustration des thèses à Paris (2002) and Pour la plus grande gloire du roi. Louis XIV en thèses (2018).
Hans-Ulrich Musolff
has studied German philology, history, philosophy and pedagogy, and has earned his PhD at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster in 1989. In 1996 he defended his Habilitation at Universität Bielefeld in educational science; subsequently, he has been lecturer at the university of Bielefeld. In 2010, he has been appointed lecturer at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. His special research interest is the history of school education in the early modern period. His book publications include the following works (with Stephanie Hellekamps each): Geschichte des pädagogischen Denkens (2006), Zwischen Schulhumanismus und Frühaufklärung. Zum Unterricht an westfälischen Gymnasien 1600–1750 (2009); Lehrer an westfälischen Gymnasien der Frühen Neuzeit (2014).
Lucy Rachel Nicholas
is a PhD in Classics and Early Modern History at King’s College, London, and teaches classical Latin and Greek at King’s College London and the Warburg Institute. She published Roger Ascham’s ‘A Defence of the Lord’s Supper’. Latin Text and English Translation (2017) and co-edited Themes of Polemical Theology Across Early Modern Literary Genres (2016). She is currently in the final stages of assembling an edited volume entitled Roger Ascham and his Sixteenth-Century World and co-editing An Anthology of British Neo-Latin Literature, and An Anthology of European Neo-Latin Literature as well.
Pietro Daniel Omodeo
is professor of historical epistemology at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy), and a permanent guest of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. He is the principal investigator of the ERC research endeavour “Institutions and Metaphysics of Cosmology in the Epistemic Networks of Seventeenth-Century Europe” (Horizon 2020, GA 725883). His research focuses on early modern science and philosophy, and political epistemology. He authored Copernicus in the Cultural Debates of the Renaissance: Reception, Legacy, Transformation (2014), (with Jürgen Renn) Science in Court Society: Giovanni Battista Benedetti’s Diversarum speculationum mathematicarum et physicarum liber (2019), and Political Epistemology: The Problem of Ideology in Science Studies (2019). Among other edited volumes, he has recently published Bernardino Telesio and the Natural Sciences in the Renaissance (2019), and (with Volkhard Wels) Natural Knowledge and Aristotelianism at Early Modern Protestant Universities (2019).
Janika Päll
is Professor for Classical Philology at the College of World Languages and Cultures of Tartu University, Estonia. Her research interests include metrical and stylististic aspects of ancient Greek literature, rhetoric in Neo-Latin literature, and humanist Greek literature. She has published several translations and edited volumes, e.g. Hellenostephanos. Humanist Greek in Early Modern Europe: Learned Communities between Antiquity and Contemporary Culture (2018, together with I. Volt) and Classical tradition from the 16th century to Nietzsche (2010, with I. Volt and M. Steinrück).
Kaarina Rein
is a research fellow at the Research Centre of the University of Tartu Library, Estonia. Her research focuses on medical disputations and dissertations at the University of Tartu in the 17th and 19th centuries, and the reception of Greek language and literature in Estonia. Her book size publications are: Ladina keel meditsiinierialadele (Latin for medical students) (2002 and 2008); Arstiteadus rootsiaegses Tartu gümnaasiumis ja ülikoolis aastatel 1630–1656. Meditsiinialased disputatsioonid ja oratsioonid ning nende autorid (Medicine at the Gymnasium and University of Tartu from 1630 to 1656. Medical Disputations, Orations and their Authors) (2011), and Lingua Latina in theologia (2015).
Bernd Roling
is Professor for Classical and Medieval Latin at the Institute for Greek and Latin Philology of the Freie Universität Berlin. His research interests include high medieval and early modern Latin poetry, medieval and early modern philosophy, especially philosophy of language; the history of early modern science, university history, with special focus on Scandinavia; and early modern esoteric traditions. Recent monographs are: Christliche Kabbalah und aristotelische Naturphilosophie im Werk des Paulus Ritius (2007); Locutio angelica. Die Diskussion der Engelsprache im Mittelalter und der Frühen Neuzeit als Antizipation einer Sprechakttheorie (2008); Drachen und Sirenen: Die Aufarbeitung und Abwicklung der Mythologie an den europäischen Universitäten (2010); Physica Sacra: Wunder, Naturwissenschaft und historischer Schriftsinn zwischen Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit (2013); and, as critical editor with Iolanda Ventura and Baudoin van den Abeele, Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum, vol. 1 (2007). He has just finished a book on the Swedish polymath Olaus Rudbeck and his reception in 18th century Northern Europe, entitled Odins Imperium (2 vols.).
Sabine Schlegelmilch
is Assistant professor for the History of Medicine at the University of Würzburg; she also is curator of the Historical Collections of the Würzburg Medical Faculty. She was trained in Classics and German literature at the universities of Würzburg and London. Her research interests are medical theory and practice of the 16th–18th century; the history of surgery; medicine in film and TV. Her book publications are Bürger, Gott und Götterschützling. Kinderbilder der hellenistischen Kunst und Literatur (2009) and Ärztliche Praxis und sozialer Raum: Johannes Magirus (1615–1697) (2019); she also is co-editor of Medical Practice, 1600–1900. Physicians and their patients (2016).
Ulrich Schlegelmilch
is a Classical Philologist and Historian of Science at the University of Würzburg. He was Wissenschaftlicher Assistent at the Institut für Klassische Philologie from 2001 to 2008 and has since been a researcher in the long-term project Frühneuzeitliche Ärztebriefe, 1500–1700 at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He has published on classical and Neo-Latin poetry, including a book on Jesuit descriptions of church buildings Descriptio templi (2003), on Latin palaeography and medieval scholia, on the history of medicine and humanist epistolography. He is currently a co-director of the Opera Camerarii DFG project.
Peter Sjökvist
is Associate Professor of Latin at Uppsala University and Librarian at Uppsala University Library. His research interests include early modern occasional poetry, academic culture, book history and library history, with a special focus on literary spoils of war. He is the author of The Music Theory of Harald Vallerius. Three Dissertations from 17th-century Sweden (2012), and The Early Latin Poetry of Sylvester Johannis Phrygius (2007). He is convener of the Neo-Latin Network of Uppsala, and one of the editors of Bibliotheca Neolatina Upsaliensis. He has co-edited several volumes including Kulturarvsperspektiv (2018) and Bevara för framtiden (2016). He is presently translating philosophical texts by the Swedish scholars Thomas Thorild and Benjamin Höijer.
Arvo Tering
is a Senior Research Fellow at the University Library of Tartu, Estonia. His work has mostly centred on the universities and the students of the Baltic area. His current research interests include Baltic students of medicine at European universities in the early modern period. Among his major publications are Lexikon der Studenten aus Estland, Livland und Kurland an europäischen Universitäten 1561–1800 (2018); Eesti-, liivi- ja kuramaalased Euroopa ülikoolides 1561–1798 (‘Students from Estland, Livland and Courland at European Universities in 1561–1798’) (2008); and Album Academicum der Universität Dorpat (Tartu) 1632–1710 (1984).
Raf Van Rooy
is affiliated with the Catholic University of Leuven as a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). A classicist, linguist, and historian, he obtained his PhD in Linguistics at the Catholic University of Leuven in 2017. His research focuses on the early modern study of Greek and on the history of linguistic concepts of Greek origin (such as ‘aorist’). In his PhD thesis, he traced the development of the conceptual pair ‘language’ and ‘dialect’ from antiquity until about 1900. He is (co-)editor of George J. Metcalf, On Language Diversity and Relationship from Bibliander to Adelung (2013), and editor of Essays in the History of Dialect Studies: From Ancient Greece to Modern Dialectology (2020). Currently, he is finishing two monographs related to the history of dialect studies, with particular emphasis on the early modern period: Language or Dialect? The History of a Conceptual Pair, and Greece’s Labyrinth of Language: A Study in the Early Modern Discovery of Dialect Diversity.
Isabella Walser-Bürgler
is Key Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies in Innsbruck (Austria). Her research interests encompass early modern university orations, Tyrolean Neo-Latin literature, the Neo-Latin didactic poem, the Neo-Latin novel, and concepts of European identity in early modern Latin texts. Among her publications rank Im theresianischen Zeitalter der Vernunft. Giovanni Battista Graser: ‘De praestantia logicae’ (2013) and Anton Wilhelm Ertl: ‘Austriana regina Arabiae’. Ein neulateinischer Habsburgroman des 17. Jahrhunderts (2016). Walser-Bürgler is also co-editor of Der neulateinische Roman als Medium seiner Zeit: The Neo-Latin Novel in Its Time (2013) and Contesting Europe: Comparative Perspectives on Early Modern Discourses of Europe (15th–18th Century) (2019).