Philology in Europe before and after 1800 Change and Continuity

Laura Loporcaro is a postdoctoral fellow at Ghent University. She works on classical Latin literature and on the history of philology between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, focusing particularly on the figure of Friedrich August Wolf (1759-1824). She is the author of Reading Quintilian. Didactic Authority in Quintilian's Institutio oratoria (2025).

Paul Michael Kurtz is an associate research professor in history at Ghent University. A cultural, religious, and intellectual historian, he concentrates on the formation and circulation of knowledge about the ancient world both in and between Europe, the Middle East, and India from 1750 to 1950. His recent publications include Boschwitz on Wellhausen: The Life, Work, and Letters of a Jewish Scholar in Nazi Germany (2024).