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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

This page provides a running list of the project’s research output (01.2023–ongoing).

Digital Edition of Diaries

Articles and Book Chapters

  • Telesca, Chiara (2025), “Karl Benedikt Hase’s Journey to Algeria. Notes from the Diary of 1839”, International Journal of the Classical Tradition 32 (3) (2025): 1–26 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12138-025-00725-0)
  • Barton, William M. (2025), “Nineteenth-century Helleno(Ger)mania in the Digital Age: The Edition of K. B. Hase’s Greek Diaries”, in: S. Weise (ed.), Griechischhumanismus des 16. Jahrhunderts: Lorenz Rhodoman im Kontext und digital (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag), pp. 389–409, (https://doi.org/10.25651/1.2025.0002).
  • Barton, William M., Lev Shadrin, and Mariia Hrynevych (2025), “Learning Modern Greek in Nineteenth-Century Paris: Karl Benedikt Hase’s Student Notes on Amiras’ Translation of Costin, History of the Kingdoms and Princes of Moldavia.” Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 49 (1), 1–20. (https://doi.org/10.1017/byz.2024.29).
  • Barton, William M. (2025), “Deux lettres de Jacob Zwinger à son père Theodor Zwinger l’Ancien”, in: Amherdt, D., Schlip, C. et Bovier, K. (eds) Humanistica Helvetica: Prose et poésie latines des humanistes suisses du XVIe siècle 195 (2024–2028) (https://humanistica-helvetica.unifr.ch/fr/works/195).
  • Barton, William M. (2024), “On Translations of Byzantine Greek: A Bilingual Letter from Vicente Mariner to Andreas Schott in 1617”, Translat Library 6 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.7275/tl.2068).
  • Barton, William M. (2024), “Latin–Greek Code-Switching in Vicente Mariner’s (ca. 1570– 1642) Correspondence with Andreas Schott (1552–1629): A Case-Study”, Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures (JOLCEL) 9: 74–94. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.21825/jolcel.87172).
  • Barton, William M. and Van Rooy, Raf (eds.) (2024), Latin–Greek Code-switching in Early Modernity. Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures (JOLCEL) 9 (DOI: https://jolcel.ugent.be/issue/25766/download/10938).
  • Barton, William M. (2023), « La langue grecque dans le journal intime de C.-B. Hase », Camenae 29 (2023): 1–21.

Datasets

  • Barton, William M., Hrynevych, Mariia, Shadrin, Lev and Telesca, Chiara (eds) (10.2025). “The Secret Diary of K. B. Hase – 1839 (xml)” [Data set]. Zenodo. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.17522098
  • Barton, William M., Hrynevych, Mariia, Shadrin, Lev and Telesca, Chiara (eds) (07.2025). “The Secret Diary of K. B. Hase – 1837 (xml)” [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15846426
  • Barton, William M., Hrynevych, Mariia, Shadrin, Lev and Telesca, Chiara (eds) (01.2025). “The Secret Diary of K. B. Hase – 1825 (xml)” [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15846522

Book Reviews

  • Barton, William M., [Review]. Karsten Wilkens (Hg.): Theophrast. Charaktere. Griechisch/ Deutsch. Ditzingen: Reklam 2022. 156 S., Janus Circulare. Informationen zum altsprachlichen Unterricht 45 (4) 2024, 127–129 (DOI: 10.25651/1.2025.0001).

Project Events

  • LAGOOS Workshop: “Diaries of Scholarship. Comparative Perspectives on Diary-writing in Early Modern and Modern Europe”, 19th September 2025, University of Innsbruck, Austria, Palais Claudiana: https://lagoos.org/2025/08/08/workshop-programme-diaries-of-scholarship-19-09-2025/.
  • Workshop (LAGOOS and Forschungsschwerpunkt „Kulturelle Begegnungen – Kulturelle Konflikte“, Innsbruck): ‘“Books of Faith”: Religious Manuscripts Colloquium’ 2nd–3rd May 2025.
  • LAGOOS Guest Lecture: Prof. Baukje van den Berg, Central European University (CEU), “Ancient Texts and Their Byzantine Readers: Byzantine Reflections on the Value of Literature”, Universität Innsbruck, 19th November 2024.
  • LAGOOS Panel, “The Secret Diary of Karl Benedikt Hase: Greek, Diary-writing and Philhellenism in 19th-century Paris”, Inaugural conference of the International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (INCSA), University of Durham, UK, 10–12th July 2024.
  • LAGOOS Guest Lecture: Prof. Gonda Van Steen, “Five Years of Feeding: A Recently Published New Source on the Living Conditions of the Children of late 1940s Greece”, Universität Innsbruck, 5th June 2024.
  • LAGOOS Workshop: “TRANSKRIBUS for Greek and Latin in the Early Modern Period”, LAGOOS Project FWF-START (Y 1519-G), Universität Innsbruck, 28th April 2023.

Conference Papers and Invited Lectures

  • Barton, William M. “Perspectives on the History of the Greek Language from Charles-Benoît Hase (1780–1864)” • NeoClassica – Texts and Perspectives from the Early Modern Classical Tradition (Prolepsis Network), February 12th 2026.
  • Telesca, Chiara. “Navigating Colonialism and Scholarship: Karl Benedikt Hase’s Journey to Algiers through His ‘Secret Diary’. Contribution to panel “The Postclassical Maghreb” organized by Kyle Khellaf (University of California, Riverside) and Sonia Sabnis (Reed College) • Society for Classical Studies (SCS) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, January 7–10, 2026. https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/detailed-program-2026-annual-meeting
  • Shadrin, Lev. “Lexical journeys: Digital approaches to Karl Benedikt Hase’s 1837 Greek Diary” • Laetae Segetes IX International PhD and Young Researchers Conference, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 20th November, 2025. https://classics.phil.muni.cz/en/research/conferences/laetae-segetes-ix/programme
  • Barton, William M., “Digital approaches to Neo-Latin and (New) Ancient Greek” • Digital Neo-Latin studies: Ideas and Perspectives, University of Aarhus & Centre for Danish Neo-Latin, 24–25th September 2025: https://cdnl.dk/pdf/Program_DigiNL25.pdf.
  • Barton, William, M., “The Diaries of K. B. Hase and the Long Tradition of Diary-writing: Opening Remarks” • Diaries of Scholarship. Comparative Perspectives on Diary-writing in Early Modern and Modern Europe, University of Innsbruck, Austria, 19th September 2025: https://lagoos.org/2025/08/08/workshop-programme-diaries-of-scholarship-19-09-2025/
  • Shadrin, Lev. “‘ἔγραψα ταῦτα’: Личный дневник эллиниста XIX века Карла Бенедикта Хазе [‘ἔγραψα ταῦτα’: The Private Diary of the Nineteenth-Century Hellenist Karl Benedikt Hase].” • Antibarbari Colloquia lecture series, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 9th October, 2025. https://vkvideo.ru/video-211800158_456239481
  • Telesca, Chiara, “Karl Benedikt Hase’s Epistolary Practice and the Construction of Scholarly Identity” • Epistolography, knowledge, and the Ancient World, University of Bucharest, 3-4th October 2025: https://istorie.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Epistolography-conference-program-1.pdf.
  • Barton, William M., “Digital approaches to Neo-Latin and (New) Ancient Greek” • Digital Neo-Latin studies: Ideas and Perspectives, University of Aarhus & Centre for Danish Neo-Latin, 24–25th September 2025: https://cdnl.dk/pdf/Program_DigiNL25.pdf.
  • Telesca, Chiara, “Private Pages, Public Personal: K. B. Hase and the Construction of an Intellectual Identity (1825, 1837, 1839)” • Diaries of Scholarship. Comparative Perspectives on Diary-writing in Early Modern and Modern Europe, University of Innsbruck, Austria, 19th September 2025.
  • Barton, William, M., “The Diaries of K. B. Hase and the Long Tradition of Diary-writing: Opening Remarks” • Diaries of Scholarship. Comparative Perspectives on Diary-writing in Early Modern and Modern Europe, University of Innsbruck, Austria, 19th September 2025.
  • Barton, William, M., ‘Helping Humboldt with Latin: Hase and the De distributione geographica plantarum’ • International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, Université Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, France, 14–19th July 2025.
  • Hrynevych, Mariia, ‘The Latin Commentary (and Counterfeits) in C. B. Hase’s Edition of Leo the Deacon’s Historia’ • International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, Université Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, France, 14–19th July 2025
  • Shadrin, Lev, ‘Identifying Code-Switching Patterns in Hase’s Private Notes’ • International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, Université Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, France, 14–19th July 2025.
  • Barton, William, M., ‘The Origins of an Ancient Greek Translation of Fénelon’s Télémaque by the French Prime Minister’ • Transfer of Ideas in European Intellectual History: From Medieval Manuscripts to Interactive Online Content. International Conference, Innsbruck, Austria, 30th June – 2nd July 2025.
  • Barton, William, M.  ‘La poésie grecque d’un jeune mathématicien : l’Oratio an princeps sit propter subditos de Johann Bernoulli’ • Journée d’étude Humanistica Helvetica – l’Humanisme grec, Fribourg, Switzerland, 23rd June 2025.
  • Barton, William, M.  ‘Between Ancient and Modern Greek: Karl Benedikt Hase and Byzantine Studies in 19th-century Paris’ • 3rd International Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Graduate Conference “Receiving Byzantium, Byzantium Receiving”, Vienna, Austria, 16th-17th May 2025.
  • Barton, William, M. “The Secret Diary of Karl Benedikt Hase: 19th-century Philologist and Forger” • Pałac Bp E. Ciołka, ul. Kanonicza 17, Kraków, 7th May 2025.
  • Barton, William, M.   ‘Cultural Philhellenism’: Ancient Greek between Byzantium and Modern Philology in 19th-century Paris’, • Classical Student’s lecture series, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, 6th May 2025.
  • Barton, William, M.  “The Passage of Parchment to Paris: K. B. Hase and BnF supp. grec 704–708” • Books of Faith: Religious Manuscripts Colloquium, Innsbruck, Austria, 2nd–3rd May 2025.
  • Barton, William, M. ‘Improving Humboldt’s Latin: K. B. Hase and the De plantarm distributione geographica’ • Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS), Philadelphia, United States, 5th January 2025.
  • Barton, William M., ‘Automatic Transcription and Large Text Corpora: Neo-Latin and Greek’ • The ‘Digital Turn’ in Neo-Latin Studies, Society of Neo-Latin Studies AGM, University of Cambridge, UK, 15th November 2024.
  • Barton, William M., ‘Karl Benedikt Hase’s ‘Cultural’ Philhellenism’ • The Nineteenth Century Today: Interdisciplinary, International, Intertemporal (Annual Conference of the International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association) (INCSA), University of Durham, UK, 10–12th July 2024.
  • Hrynevych, Mariia, ‘Daily Life in Nineteenth-century Paris in Ancient Greek’ • The Nineteenth Century Today: Interdisciplinary, International, Intertemporal (Annual Conference of the International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association) (INCSA), University of Durham, UK, 10–12th July 2024.
  • Shadrin, Lev, ‘Identifying Recurring Phrases in Karl Benedikt Hase’s ‘Secret Diary’ • The Nineteenth Century Today: Interdisciplinary, International, Intertemporal (Annual Conference of the International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association) (INCSA), University of Durham, UK, 10–12th July 2024.
  • Shadrin, Lev, ‘The Use of Greek in Karl Benedikt Hase’s ‘Secret Diary’ • Telling Byzantine History: Current Trends and New Directions (International Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Graduate Conference), Vienna, 24–25th June 2024.
  • Shadrin, Lev, ‘Transcription Correction: Exploring Recognition Errors and Discussing Alternative Approaches’ • Transkribus User Conference (TUC) 2024, Innsbruck, 15–16th February 2024 [YouTube recording here]
  • Barton, William M. ‘Transkribus and the Secret Diaries of K. B. Hase’ • Transkribus User Conference (TUC) 2024, Innsbruck, 15–16th February 2024.
  • Barton, William M. and Shadrin, Lev, ‘Digital Approaches towards the Edition of Karl Benedikt Hase’s ‘Secret’ Diary’ • The Material Heritage of Ancient Greece in Early Modern Europe: New Approaches and Perspectives (GrECI Conference), Athens, 1–2nd February 2024.
  • Barton, William M. ‘Ein Leben auf Altgriechisch: Forschungsperspektiven aus dem Tagebuch des Byzantinisten K. B. Hase’ • Österreichische Byzantinische Gesellschaft (ÖBG), Vienna, 30th January 2024.
  • Barton, William M. ‘The Secret Diaries of Karl Benedikt Hase: A Digital Edition of ‘New’ Ancient Greek’ • Du calame au clavier : colloque de philologie numérique, University of Grenoble (Saint-Martin-d’Hères) France, 17–19th January 2024.
  • Barton, William M. ‘Literature and Education as a Political Act: K. B. Hase’s ‘Cultural’ Philhellenism in 19th-century Paris’ • Positionen der Literaturwissenschaft (Ringvoresung), Innsbruck, 12th December 2023.
  • Shadrin, Lev • ‘Transkribus and its Concrete Possibilities: The Manuscripts of the Academia Taxiana‘, Innsbruck, 20th November 2023.
  • Barton, William M. ‘LAGOOS Model: Early Modern Greek’ • TRANSKRIBUS for Greek and Latin in the Early Modern Period, Innsbruck, 28th April 2023.
  • Barton, William M. ‘Helleno(ger)mania in the Digital Age: The edition of K. B. Hase’s Greek diaries’ • Helleno(ger)mania: Lorenz Rhodoman und der Philhellenismus des 16. Jhds im digitalen Zeitalter, Wuppertal, Germany, 28–29th March 2023.
  • Barton, William M. “Cultural” Philhellenism in 19th-century Paris: The Correspondence of Georges Theocharopoulos and Charles-Benoît Hase’ • Philhellenism and the Greek Revolution of 1821: Towards a Global History, National Library of Greece, Athens, 15th–17th March 2023.

Academic Outreach Activities