Jakob Wisse#
| Membership Number: | 3854 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ncl.ac.uk/historical/staff/profile/jakob.wisse |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Newcastle University
- 1999 Lecturer in Classics at Newcastle University
- 1995 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Leiden University
- 1994 PhD in Classics at the University of Amsterdam
- 1983 equivalent of Research Master's in Mathematics at the University of Amsterdam
Fields of Scholarship
- Ancient rhetorical theory
- Ciceronian and Roman republican oratory
- Cicero and De oratore
- Intellectual life, especially in the Roman republican period
- Literary theory
- Greek and Roman historiography
- Latin language
