Team

Principal Investigator

Paul Michael Kurtz

• Research interests: History of Science; Historiography; German Judaism; History of Religion; 19th-century Germany
• Contribution to project: Overall coordination; Semitic philology; Knowledge-infrastructure
• Personal Focus: Arabic in Leiden; Hebrew in Leipzig; Akkadian in London
• More info and bibliography: UGent, H-Commons

Team members

Laura Loporcaro

• Research interests: Latin language and literature; Rhetoric; Reception of classical antiquity
• Contribution to project: Classical Philology; History of Practice
• Personal Focus: Synoptic, stemmatological, and stratigraphic methods between France and Germany
• More info and bibliography: UGent

Martina Palladino

• Research interests: Indo-Iranian philology; Indian and Iranian languages, literatures and religious-philosophical trends.
• Contribution to project: Indo-Iranian Philology; History of Media
• Personal Focus: History of media in nineteenth-century Indo-Iranian philology. The case studies investigate the introduction in Europe of specific typefaces to print Indian and Iranian languages; paper squeezes to trace inscriptions and prepare corpora; and the technique of photography to capture and reproduce artefacts.
• More info and bibliography: UGent

Christian Hoekema

• Research interests:
• Contribution to project: Romance Philology; Germanic Philology; History of Collaboration
• Personal Focus: Royal Historical Commission
• More info and bibliography: UGent

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