Christopher B. Krebs
Christopher B. Krebs is the Gesue and Helen Spogli Professor of Italian Studies, Professor of Classics, and, by courtesy, of German Studies and Comparative Literature Stanford University. Krebs' principal research interests are Greek and Roman Historiography, Latin Lexicography and the Classical tradition.[1]
Life
[edit]Christopher B. Krebs studied classics and philosophy at Berlin, Oxford (M. St. 2002) and Kiel (1st Staatsexamen 2000, Ph. D. 2003). He was a lecturer at University College, Oxford before being appointed as Assistant Professor of Classics at Harvard in 2004. While Assistant Professor at Harvard, he was Professeur Invité at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 2007 and the APA fellow at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich in 2008/09. In 2009 he was appointed Associate Professor of Classics at Harvard before becoming Associate Professor of Classics at Stanford in 2012.[2]
Krebs has written two academic monographs on the reception of Tacitus' Germania; the first, Negotiatio Germaniae: Tacitus’ Germania und Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Giannantonio Campano, Conrad Celtis und Heinrich Bebelm, appeared in 2005[3] while the second, A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich, was published in 2011,[4] has been translated into seven languages (including German, Spanish and Chinese) and won the Phi Beta Kappa Society's Christian Gauss Award.[5] In addition, he is co-editor of Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography: The ‘Plupast’ from Herodotus to Appian, published in 2012,[6] a contributor to the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae and Der Neue Pauly, and the author of over 20 journal articles. He is currently working on a variety of projects which include studies of Caesar, Latin Historiography, Posidonius and Annio di Viterbo.
He has also taught the Stanford Humanities Institute summer course on Rome, which discusses renowned Roman leaders and orators such as Tacitus.
Works
[edit]- Negotiatio Germaniae: Tacitus’ Germania und Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Giannantonio Campano, Conrad Celtis und Heinrich Bebel, Hypomnemata 158, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2005. ISBN 3-525-25257-9[3]
- A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich, New York: W. W. Norton, 2011 ISBN 978-0393342925[4]
- Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography: The ‘Plupast’ from Herodotus to Appian, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012 (co-editor with Jonas Grethlein) ISBN 978-1107007406[6]
- The Cambridge Companion to the writings of Julius Caesar, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018 (co-editor with Luca Grillo) ISBN 978-1107670495[7]
References
[edit]- ^ [1] Personal Website at Stanford University
- ^ [2] Stanford Classics News
- ^ a b Reviews of Negotiatio Germaniae:
- Muhlack, Ulrich (2007), Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur, 136 (3): 417–420, JSTOR 20658504
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Kelley, Donald R. (April 2008), "The "Germania"", The Classical Review, New Series, 58 (1): 164–166, doi:10.1017/S0009840X07002314, JSTOR 20482395, S2CID 161380961
- Müller, Gernot Michael (2009), Gnomon, 81 (2): 133–138, doi:10.17104/0017-1417_2009_2_133, JSTOR 27694100
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- Muhlack, Ulrich (2007), Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur, 136 (3): 417–420, JSTOR 20658504
- ^ a b Reviews of A Most Dangerous Book:
- Edwards, Rebecca (2010), Classical Bulletin, vol. 86 (1–2 ed.), pp. 194–196, ProQuest 1672310402
- Poe, Marshall (2011), New Books in History
- Grafton, Anthony (July 2011), "Those Limbs We Admire", London Review of Books, 33 (14)
- Bartera, Salvador (April 2012), The Classical Review, New Series, 62 (1): 186–188, doi:10.1017/S0009840X11003477, JSTOR 23270876, S2CID 163030862
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Hirschi, C. (July 2012), German History, 30 (4): 624–625, doi:10.1093/gerhis/ghs054, hdl:20.500.11850/59731
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Fratantuono, Lee M. (Fall 2012), The Historian, 74 (3): 618–620, doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.2012.00328_51.x, JSTOR 24455973, S2CID 143074406
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Warren, Richard (2013), The Journal of Roman Studies, 103: 346–347, doi:10.1017/S0075435813000762, JSTOR 43286850, S2CID 163247700
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- ^ [3] Archived 2014-07-26 at the Wayback Machine Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards
- ^ a b Reviews of Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography:
- Ward, J. S. (December 2013 – January 2014), The Classical Journal, 109 (2): 245–247, doi:10.5184/classicalj.109.2.0245, JSTOR 10.5184/classicalj.109.2.0245
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Pelling, Christopher (2014), The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 134: 168–169, doi:10.1017/S0075426914001591, JSTOR 43286095
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- Ward, J. S. (December 2013 – January 2014), The Classical Journal, 109 (2): 245–247, doi:10.5184/classicalj.109.2.0245, JSTOR 10.5184/classicalj.109.2.0245
- ^ Reviews of The Cambridge Companion to the writings of Julius Caesar:
- Pausch, Dennis (2018), Exemplaria Classica, 22, hdl:10272/17473
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Damon, Cynthia (December 2018), The Classical Review, 69 (1): 102–105, doi:10.1017/s0009840x18002937, S2CID 165755583
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Tempest, Kathryn (March 2020), Journal of Roman Studies, 110: 275–276, doi:10.1017/s0075435820000490, S2CID 216229235
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- Pausch, Dennis (2018), Exemplaria Classica, 22, hdl:10272/17473
