On March 7th 2012, Prof. Dr. Karl A. E. Enenkel (University of Münster) visited the LBI and gave a talk on "Die humanistische Kultur Coimbras als Wiege des emblematischen Kommentars. Sebastian Stockhamers Alciato-Kommentar für Joao Meneses Sottomayor (1552)".
On February 22nd 2012, Prof. Dr. Claudia Schindler, head of the Institut für griechische und lateinische Philologie (Hamburg University), visited the LBI.
The presentation of the LBI was followed by a short discussion about the Institute's programme and the three research lines as well as about Neo-Latin as a discipline.
On January 13th 2012, Dr. Victoria Moul (King's College London) visited the LBI and gave a talk on "Reading Latin Elegies in Seventeenth Century England".
On Wednesday 11th of January 2012, the members of the “Qualifizierungsprogramm Train the Trainer”, organized by the Lower Austrian university of education, visited the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo Latin Studies. Our guests are going to be responsible for the implementation of the new school leaving examination in Latin, in which Neo Latin texts will play an important role in the future.
On December 21st 2011, Mag. Katharina Cortolezis-Schlager, member of the Austrian National Council and of the science committee, visited our Institute.
A presentation of the LBI was followed by a discussion about the Institute's programme, Neo-Latin as discipline as well as recent scientific developments in the Ludwig Boltzmann Society.
On November 11th 2011, the LBI team was received at the Premonstratensian Stift Wilten by abbot Raimund Schreier. The abbot showed the team around the Stiftskirche and introduced it to the monastery's fascinating library with its historical stocks of mediaeval and early modern books. The trip was rounded off in good spirits by a visit to the monastery's orchard and the adjacent schnapps distillery.
On October 5th 2011, Prof. Dr. Walther Ludwig (University of Hamburg) visited the LBI and gave a talk on "Idealbilder von Humanismus und Gerechtigkeit - Die Monodia des Marcus Antonius Muretus zum Tod des Pariser Parlamentspräsidenten Christophe de Thou (1583)".
On September 5th 2011, the members of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies were received by Austrian Federal Minister OUniv.-Prof.Dr. Karlheinz Töchterle at the Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung in Vienna.
The minister presented each of the visitors with a book about the building in which the ministry is housed: the 17th-century Palais Starhemberg. Following a tour of the ministry, the visit finished with a pleasant lunch. A number of LBI members were later sighted at Schönbrunn palace.
On August 30th 2011, Andreas Sulzgruber who is currently preparing his PhD at Vienna university, visited the LBI and held a workshop on Bernhard Weinhardt's (1598-1654) "Origo Holzburgiaci Castelli", the last part of Weinhardt's extensive Latin autobiography.
After the presentation of the material, there was a vivid discussion and exchange of ideas with Mr Sulzgruber and researchers from all three LBI research lines.
We seek to appoint a
Junior Researcher in the field of Neo-Latin literature (100%)
Responsibilities:
Requirements: