Thorsten Foegen
Assistant Professor
Department of Classics and Ancient History
Durham University
United Kingdom
Biography
Born in 1971. He studied Classics and General Linguistics at the Universities of Freiburg (Germany), Oxford (UK) and Heidelberg (Germany). M.A. and "First State's Exam" in 1996. 1996-97: Research Fellow at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague (Czech Republic). 1997-2000: Research Fellow of the "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)". Dr. phil. in 2000 (University of Heidelberg). 2000-01: Research Fellow at the University of Exeter (UK). 2002-2009: Assistant Professor of Classics at the Humboldt University of Berlin. "Habilitation" during Winter Term 2008/09, "Privatdozent" since April 2009. At Durham University since January 2010.
Research Interest
Latin literature, esp. from the late Republic (1st century B.C.) until the early Empire (1st and 2nd centuries A.D.). Special interests e.g.: ancient technical texts, epistolography, animals in antiquity, history of linguistic ideas.
