dr. Stephan Busch

Stephan Busch studied Latin and Greek at the University of Cologne and passed the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools in 1991. After two years as a research assistant, he received his doctorate in 1996 from Wolfgang Dieter Lebek with the dissertation Versus balnearum: The ancient poetry about baths and bathing in the Roman Empire . He then worked as a research assistant for Lebek at the University of Cologne.

In 2002 Busch received the Hendrik Casimir-Karl Ziegler Research Prize from the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences , which enabled him to spend a year researching at the University of Leiden . After returning to Cologne, he completed his habilitation in 2003 with the work Caesars Bellum Gallicum : Narrator standpoint and readers' horizon . He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Classical Studies at the University of Cologne until 2005, and from 2004 to 2006 as a lecturer and university lecturer in Latin at the University of Leiden. In the summer semester of 2005, he was the chair of Latin at the University of Bonn. Busch has been Professor of Classical Philology (especially Latin Studies) at Trier University since 2006 .
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His main research interests include the narrative technique and narrative structure of ancient texts, the ancient epigram , the inscribed transmission of literature and the history of the reception of ancient times.