Oliver Siegl

Biography

Oliver Siegl studied German and Latin Studies at the University of Lehramt in Gymnasia (Staatssexamen 2009); the title of the admission work was: "Jacob Baldes Medicinae Gloria : satire understanding and time criticism in the medical satires of the German Horace." Afterwards, he became a lecturer, a research assistant at the DFG-funded edition project TRF - Tragicorum Romanorum Fragments (new edition of the Roman tragic fragments) and as an instructor at the universities of Bamberg and Würzburg. His dissertation project on the Roman Liebeselegie, begun in 2012 as a scholarship of the Bamberger Graduate Kolleg "Generation Consciousness and Generation Conflicts in the Pre-Modern Age", is about to be completed. Since 2015 he has been a research associate at the Department of Classical Philology / Focus on Latin Studies at the Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg. He also works as a schoolbook author for the Bavarian edition of the Latin teaching "Adeamus!" (Publisher Oldenbourg / Cornelsen).

Research Interest

Republican tragedy, Augusteic literature, Neulatein, Didactics of the Ancient Languages