Peter Kruschwitz

Peter Kruschwitz (born 1973 ) is a German classical scholar and epigraphists.

Career

Peter Kruschwitz studied Latin and Greek philology at the Free University of Berlin. In 1999, he was just there at Gabriele Thome doctorate. From 1997 to 2007 he was employed at the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences as a research assistant at Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. From 2005 to 2007, he held an Emmy Noether fellowship at the University of Oxford, where he worked in 2007 as a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College. Following Kruschwitz was appointed to the University of Reading, where he was appointed in 2011 as Professor of Classics.

Research

In his research, Kruschwitz deals primarily with the Latin language, literature and epigraphy of the Roman Republic. He has emerged with numerous publications mainly to the Carmina Latina Epigraphica, Plautus, Terence, to the Pompeian wall inscriptions and generally for Latin linguistics. Kruschwitz thus one of the few Latinists who devote themselves to the same extent documentary and literary sources.

Publications ( selection)

• Carmina Saturnia Epigraphica. Introduction, text and commentary on the Saturnian verse inscriptions. Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2002 ( at the same time Diss phil. FU Berlin 1999).
• Terence. Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, 2004.
• Roman inscriptions and Wackernagel's Law. Studies on the syntax of epigraphic texts from the Republican period. Winter -Verlag, Heidelberg 2004.
• The pre-classical didactic poem of the Romans. Heidelberg 2005 ( with Matthias Schumacher ).
• Terentius Poeta. Beck, Munich 2007 ( with Widu -Wolfgang Ehlers and Fritz Felgentreu ).
• The metrical inscriptions of the Roman Republic. W. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2007.