• March 2022 Retirement
• 2021 Adjunct Professor for Classics
• 2019 Habilitation in Classics with Special Emphasis on the History of Rhetoric
• 2006 Akademischer Oberrat (senior tenured lecturer)
• 2003 Associate Editor of Rhetorica – A Journal of the History of Rhetoric (Berkeley, USA)
• October 1998 Akademischer Rat (tenured lecturer) at the Seminar for Classical Studies at the Univer­sity of Tübingen
• 1992-2015 Contributor to Historisches Wör­ter­buch der Rhetorik, Tübingen
• 1982-1992 Assistant Professor at the Classics Department of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
• 1984 Dr. phil. in Greek with a thesis on “Name und Sache. Ein Problem im frühgriechischen Denken” (“Name and Object: A Problem in Early Greek Thinking”).
• 1983 M.A. in Greek, Latin and Medieval German Literature
• 1982 Secondary School Teaching Qualification in Greek, Latin and German Literature.
• 1975-1982 Academic Studies of Greek, Latin and German Literature at Ludwig-Maxi­milians-Universität München and Oxford University (Brasenose College).
• 1974 Graduation from Secondary School
• Born May 1, 1955 in Passau (Bavaria)

• 2017-2019 President International Society for the Study of Jesuit Rhetoric
• 2014-2016 Vice-President Chinese Rhetoric Society of the World
• 2013-2015 President International Society for the History of Rhetoric
• 2011-2013 Vice President International Society for the History of Rhetoric
• 2010-2011 Residential Research Fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington, DC, USA
• 2009 Research Fellowship of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric
• 2003-2007 Member of Executive Council of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric

• Mommsen-Gesellschaft (since1984)
• International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR, since1995)
• Inter­national Society for the Classical Tradition (ISCT, since1997)
• Inter­national Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA, since 2000)
• International Plato Society (IPS, since 2003)
• Rhetoric Society of America (RSA, since 2008)
• Renaissance Society of America (RSA, since 2008)
• Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (AILACT, since 2009)
• Byzantine Studies Association of North America (BSANA, since 2010)
• Rhetoric Society of Europe (RSE, since 2011)
• Chinese Rhetoric Society of the World (CSRW, since 2012)
• Organización Iberoamericana de Retórica (since 2014)
• International Society for the Study of Jesuit Rhetoric (ISSJR, since 2017)
• Sociedade Brasileira de Retórica (SBR, since 2018)

• Greek Philosophy, especially Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle
• Philosophy of Language in Antiquity
• Poetics und Aesthetics of Greek Tragedy
• Theory and Practice of Ancient Rhetoric and its Aftermath in the Middle Ages and the Modern Era
• Theory of Argumentation
• Reception of Ancient Progymnasmatic Manuals in Early Modern Times

• A narratological poetics of Greek tragedy
• Early Modern reception of Eleatic philosophy
• Collection and bibliogaphical recording of traceable Neo-Latin translations of Aphthonius’ Progymnasmata
• Commented German translation of Aphthonius’ Progymnasmata
• Monograph on the early modern aftermath of Aphthonius’ Progymnasmata; possibly with critical edition of the translation with scholia and extended examples by Reinhard Lorich (1542, 1546)
• New German translation of Demosthenes, Or. 27-41
• Edition and commented German translation of Galfrid of Vinsauf’s Poetria Nova
• New German translation of the Rhetoric to Alexander

Membership in Editorial Boards:

• Papers on Rhetoric (Bologna, Italy)
• International Studies in the History of Rhetoric (Leiden, Netherlands)
• New Handbook of Argumentation Theory (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• International Rhetoric Studies (Beijing, PR China)
• Korean Journal of Rhetoric (Seoul, Korea)
• Argumentation et analyse du discours (Tel Aviv, Israel)
• Revista Española de Retórica (Madrid, Spain)

Reviewer for Periodicals:

• Argumentation (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Informal Logic (Windsor, ON, Canada)
• Renaissance Studies (Oxford, UK)
• Rhetorica (Berkeley, CA, USA)
• Topoi. An International Review of Philosophy (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• eTopoi. Journal of Ancient Studies (Berlin)
• Historia Einzelschriften (Berlin)
• Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (Berlin)

• Argumentation and Advocacy (Urbana, IL, USA)

Referee for International Research Funds:

• Institut Universitaire de France (Paris, France)
• Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (Rome, Italy)
• National Endowment for the Humanities (Washington, DC, USA)
• Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Den Haag, Netherlands)
• Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (Brussels, Belgium)

Referee and Jury Member in International Doctoral and Habilitation Examinations:

• Aarhus Universitet (Denmark)
• Université Paris-Est Créteil (France)
• Université de Strasbourg (France)
• Université Paul Valéry Montpellier (France)
• Université de Paris Sorbonne (France)
• École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris, France)
• Lunds Universitet (Sweden)
• Universidad de Salamanca (Spain)
• Tartu Ülikool (Estonia)

My list of publications can be downloaded here as a pdf-file.