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Christopher Krebs
Gesue and Helen Spogli Professor of Italian Studies, Professor of Classics and, by courtesy, of German Studies and of Comparative Literature
Bio
Christopher B. Krebs studied classics and philosophy in Berlin, Kiel (1st Staatsexamen 2000, Ph. D. 2003), and Oxford (M. St. 2002). He was a lecturer at University College (Oxford) and an assistant (2004-09) and then associate professor (2009-12) at the department of the Classics at Harvard, before he joined the Classics department at Stanford. In the spring of 2007 he was the professeur invité at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris), in 2008/9 the APA fellow at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich (on which see his “You say putator” in the TLS), and, most recently, the recipient of the Christian Gauss Book Award from the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
His publications include Negotiatio Germaniae. Tacitus’ Germania und Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Giannantonio Campano, Conrad Celtis und Heinrich Bebel (Göttingen:
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Christopher Krebs
Krebs Feldherr After The Past
Journal of Roman Studies, 2023
Amongst the 'Sallusts' that 'Sallustian scholars' had fashioned by the 1960s, D. C. Earl listed '... more Amongst the 'Sallusts' that 'Sallustian scholars' had fashioned bygd the 1960s, D. C. Earl listed 'the moralist, pure artist, philosopher, imperialist, [and] political propagandist' (JRS 52 (1962), 276, abbreviated); to Karl Büchner, whose 'lengthy work' Earl reviewed politely rather than unfavourably, Sallust appeared to be a 'politician and … historian'. These two would also occupy Ronald Syme, whose 1964 Sallust fryst vatten considered the most important English-language contribution of the last century (given that La Penna's Sallustio e la 'rivoluzione' Romana appeared in 1968, this was a golden decade for Sallustiani). But the differences were striking: whereas Büchner relied on his literary expertise to pursue an often philosophical
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Christopher B. Krebs
Christopher B. Krebs has taught at Stanford since 2012. He has also held (visiting) appointments at University College (Oxford), Harvard University, the École Normale Supérieure (Paris), the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (Munich; see his “You say putator”), and the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa). The (co-)author of five books and some 80 articles, entries, and reviews, and former editor of Histos, he is the recipient of Phi Beta Kappa’s 2012 Christian Gauss Award as well as the 2018 Best Article Prize in the American Journal of Philology.
A philologist and philosopher by training (Berlin, Kiel [1st Staatsexamen 2000, Ph. D. 2003], Oxford [M. St. 2002]), he works in the fields of intellectual history, Greek and Roman historiography, and Latin philology. His monographs include a literary study of Tacitus’ Germania both in the Greco-Roman ethnographic tradition and in the 15th century