Robert Kirstein

Kirstein's research interests include literature in Hellenistic-Roman times, Ovid, the ancient epigram, Latin Late Antiquity, and the history of reception and scholarship, especially of the 19th and 20th centuries. In recent years, he has also been concerned with the application of structuralist, especially narratological models to ancient texts.

In 2011, shortly after his appointment as associate professor at the University of Münster, Kirstein took over the chair of Jürgen Leonhardt at the University of Tübingen. At the end of 2018, he was appointed full professor there and has since been full professor of Latin philology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. In 2017, he founded the interdisciplinary "Working Group Narrative Dynamics in Latin Literature". Since 2017, he has been a member of the Tübingen Research Training Group 1808 Ambiguity - Production and Reception.

After his return from the US, Kirstein worked as a research assistant at the University of Münster, where in 2006 he wrote Junge Hirten und alte Fischer. Die Gedichte 20, 21 und 27 des Corpus Theocriteum (published in 2007). The habilitation was followed by various teaching posts at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Universität Hamburg and Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, accompanied by several research stays at the Fondation Hardt pour l'étude de l'antiquité classique [de] in Vandœuvres (Switzerland).

Born in Bonn, Kirstein studied Classical Philology and Protestant Theology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität and Oxford University (Christ Church College) from 1987 to 1993. He was a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. After his state examination, he worked from 1996 to 1997 as a research assistant at the Institute for Classical Philology at the University of Münster, where he completed his dissertation Paulinus Nolanus. Carmen 17. text, introduction and commentary. He then went to the University of Illinois for a year as a William Abbott Oldfather Foundation. He was able to extend his stay by two years with a Feodor Lynen Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Robert Kirstein (born 4 June 1967) is a German classical philologist and professor of Latin philology at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.