A Life in Ancient Greek: The Secret Diary of Karl Benedikt Hase (1780–1864)

A project dedicated to the presentation and study of Karl Benedikt Hase’s ‘secret’ diary, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and hosted by the University of Innsbruck (Grant DOI 10.55776/Y1519).

Foto: Klassik Stiftung Weimar. GSA 108/2921
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  • Digital edition of 1837 diary volume published

    The LAGOOS team is delighted to present the text the second surviving volume of Hase‘s diary, that of 1837, on the project’s digital edition platform: https://app.transkribus.org/en/sites/lagoos. Notably in this year, Hase visited the new Greek capital of Athens and met with an array of leading cultural figures including professors of the newly founded University of

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  • LAGOOS featured in Innsbruck’s research magazine “Zukunft Forschung”

    An article in this month’s edition of the University of Innsbruck’s biannual research magazine, “Zukunft Forschung – Das Magazin für Wissenschaft und Forschung der Universität Innsbruck” reports on some of the latest results of the project’s work on Hase’s diary. Read the article here: Following an interview with Eva Fessler from the journal’s editorial team,

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  • LAGOOS at the 3rd International Late-Antique and Byzantine Studies Conference

    The 16th and 17th of May 2025 saw the third edition of the International Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Graduate Conference organised by the Late Antique and Byzantine Student Colloquium (LABS) between the Central European University and the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Vienna. The theme of this year’s meeting was

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