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

A project dedicated to the edition and study of Karl Benedikt Hase’s ‘Secret’ diary, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and hosted by the University of Innsbruck

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  • Hase’s Trip Algeria (1839). Telesca for IJCT

    Karl Benedikt Hase was among the French scholars most actively engaged in the early scientific missions to Algeria. As part of his responsibilities advising the Commission Scientifique pour l’Exploration de l’Algérie from his role within the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Hase visited French Algeria in 1839. Based on her work on Hase’s Greek diary

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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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  • ΛΑΓΩΟΣ welcomes new team member Dr. C. Telesca

    The ΛΑΓΩΟΣ team is delighted to welcome Dr. Chiara Telesca to Innsbruck to begin her work as a postdoctoral researcher. Chiara is the fourth and final addition to our group dedicated to the secret diaries of K. B. Hase. An expert in Late Antique and Byzantine philology, Chiara’s work has concentrated on the rhetorical tradition

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  • Team visit to the Goethe-Schiller-Archiv, Weimar

    On the 12th September, the ΛΑΓΩΟΣ team made the trip from Innsbruck to Weimar for four days of research at the Goethe-Schiller-Archiv (GSA). It is at the GSA, a part of the ensemble of cultural and research institutions constituting the Klassik Stiftung, that the nine surviving volumes of Hase’s secret diary are preserved. The ΛΑΓΩΟΣ

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  • Meet the Team! Two colleagues join the ΛΑΓΩΟΣ project

    Since the start of the project in January 2023, the Innsbruck team has now expanded to include two new members. Mariia Hrynevych gained her MA degree in Classical Philology, Literary Studies, and English at Kharkiv National University, where she wrote her Master’s thesis in the field of classical reception. Mariia joined the ΛΑΓΩΟΣ team as

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