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Sylvia Kurowsky

Sylvia Kurowsky

Research Fellow

Alte Geschichte
Drittmittelverfügungsgeb.
Ritterstraße 12, Room 302
04109 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97-37071

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Abstract

I have been a research assistant at the institute of Ancient History since 2017 and am currently mainly responsible for the editing of Digital Classics Online.

Previously, I completed my bachelor's degree in Greek and Latin Philology here in Leipzig, where I was fortunately able to dedicate myself to the study of philosophy. Through the subsequent interdisciplinary master's degree program "Classical Antiquity, History and Literature", I also gained access to Ancient History, where I am now writing my doctoral thesis on Plutarch's "Animine an corporis affectiones sint peiores", for which I would like to write a commentary.

Besides the theory, however, I was always interested in gaining as much practical experience as possible. So I preferred to deal with "analog data media" such as papyri, fragments and manuscripts - but not without dedicating myself to the counterpart, digitalization, especially the eHumanities.

Professional career

  • 10/2008 - 02/2013
    student assistant at the institut of Ancient Greek
  • 11/2011 - 02/2012
    tutor at the institut of Ancient Greek
  • 03/2011 - 04/2011
    internship at the center of manuscripts of Leipzig University Library
  • 02/2012 - 08/2012
    voluntary service at the Tutoring-Kolleg of Leipzig University
  • 10/2013 - 02/2015
    private tutor for ancient Greek
  • 01/2016 - 08/2017
    internships at the Papyrus and Ostraca Project Halle-Jena-Leipzig and the papyrus collections of the Leipzig University Library
  • 08/2017 - 03/2023
    research assistant at the institute of Ancient History of Leipzig University
  • 05/2018 - 08/2018
    second internship at the center of manuscripts of Leipzig University Library
  • since 10/2018
    PhD candidate in Ancient History, topic of the thesis: Commentary of the Plutarchian moral essay "Animine an corporis affectiones sint peiores"
  • 03/2020 - 03/2023
    editorial assistant for Digital Classics Online
  • 08/2020 - 02/2021
    honorary staff for the DFG project "Isonomy: Genesis, Development and Tradition"
  • 04/2022 - 12/2022
    Research assistant in the BMBF project ΦΩΣ 4D
  • since 04/2023
    research associate in the VW project "(Ir)reproducibility of Scientific Research in the Digital Humanities?"
  • since 04/2023
    editor at Digital Classics Online with responsibility for the editorial process

Education

  • 10/2007 - 09/2012
    BA Graeco Latin Philology at the University of Leipzig
  • 10/2015 - 08/2018
    MA Classical studies with focus on Latin at the Universitiy of leipzig

  • Greek foreign and loan words in the Latin language
  • grammarians and scholiasts
  • letters
  • philosophy
  • palaeography
  • eHumanities
  • authors: Plutarch, Terence, Pliny the Younger, Servius

  • (Ir)reproducibility of Scientific Research in the Digital Humanities?
    Schubert, Charlotte
    Duration: 04/2023 – 03/2026
    Funded by: Stiftungen Inland
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Alte Geschichte
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  • Isonomia
    Schubert, Charlotte
    Duration: 10/2019 – 03/2021
    Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Alte Geschichte
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  • DIGITAL CLASSICS ONLINE
    Schubert, Charlotte
    Duration: 04/2015 – 12/2021
    Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Alte Geschichte
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  • Platon Digital: Thesaurus zur antiken griechischen Überlieferung, Tradition und Rezeption
    Sier, Kurt
    Duration: 01/2016 – 12/2019
    Funded by: Stiftungen Inland
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Klassische Philologie/Gräzistik; Alte Geschichte
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