Christoph Pieper is a university lecturer at the Centre for the Arts in Society. After having studied Latin, German and Italian Literature in Bonn and Florence, he has been a Universiy Lecturer of Latin at Leiden University since 2006. His main research interests are Cicero and his afterlife (a theme for which he received a grant from the Dutch NWI: VIDI) and the literary culture of the Italian Renaisance (14th/15th centuries).

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Fields of interest

• Cicero and the Ciceronian tradition
• Latin oratory in the republic 
• Ovid
• Latin poetry of the Italian Renaissance
• Classical tradition

Research

Cicero’s reception from antiquity onwards (VIDI project Mediated Cicero from January 2017 until 31 December 2021). 

Curriculum Vitae

Studies of Latin, German and Italian literature (Bonn and Florence)
2008 PhD Bonn University (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Laureys)
Since 2006: University lecturer of Latin at Leiden University
Since 2022: chair of the Teaching Committee of the International Association of Neo-Latin Studies
Co-organiser of the OIKOS research group "Classical Literature: Theory and Context"
Member of the following editorial boards: Mnemosyne (editor in chief 2016-2022); Mnemosyne Supplements (editor in chief: 2016-2022); Neulateinisches Jahrbuch; Athenaeum; Bibliotheca Latinitatis Novae; Kleio

Teaching activities

•  Introductory courses on Latin grammar and syntax (BA1), Cicero/Rhetoric (BA1), the Latin literature of the Renaissance (BA2)
• Research seminars (BA and MA) on different literary and historic subjects from antiquity and the Renaissance (recently on Cicero’s year 63; Livy’s third decade; letters by Cicero and Pliny; Ovid and Augustus; Florentine Literary Culture in the 15th century, Thomas More’s Utopia; Reading Neo-Latin texts: Canonisation, Occasion, Intertexts)
• Occasionally additional teaching activities (Latin prose composition, Medieval Latin)
• Co-organizer of a course on the afterlife of classical texts and in music and film and another on the afterlife in literature and art
• OIKOS course “Publishing in a peer-reviewed journal” 
• Co-organizer of three Studium generale series (on Constantine, Augustus, and Cicero).
• Director of the Classics students’ theatre group in 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2023

Key publications

Elegos redolere Vergiliosque sapere. Cristoforo Landinos 'Xandra' zwischen Liebe und Gesellschaft. Hildesheim : Olms 2008. 
Several edited volumes with Brill and Olms 
Numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters (see publication list in the other tab)
 

Grants and awards

2010-2014 NWO VENI
2017-2022 NWO VIDI
2023-2025 Erasmus Plus Cooperation partnership (co-applicant)

Publications