Research interests:

Editorial technique and transmission history, Latin philology of antiquity and the Middle Ages, Latin palaeography, codicology, history of humanism north of the Alps, medieval history of education and reception of antiquity

Personal information

Since 01/2026
Research Associate at LMU Munich in the Cluster of Excellence 3061/1 Cross-Cultural Philology (subproject: Ancient Autorities in New Political and Social Contexts with the doctoral project mentioned below)
since 05/2024
Doctoral project on Eneas Silvius Piccolomini’s De liberorum educatione – edition and commentary with particular attention to the reception of antiquity, at LMU Munich (since 01/2026 in EXC 3061/1; primary supervisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Wagendorfer; secondary supervisor and supervision within EXC 3061/1: Prof. Dr. Claudia Wiener)
08/2022–05/2025
Research Associate at Universitätsklinikum Bonn (DFG project: „Die philosophischen Grundlagen der Medizin – Digitale kritische Edition des Conciliator (Differentiae 1 bis 10) des Petrus von Abano“; head: PD Dr. Christian Kaiser, UKB Bonn)
09/2021–07/2022
Educator for the City of Grafing (Head of the all-day team at Grafing Primary School, responsible for the fourth-grade all-day class)
04/2019–09/2021
Full-time Musician
09/2018–04/2019
Teacher training (Referendariat) for Gymnasium teaching at Gymnasium Friedberg
09/2018
First State Examination (Erstes Staatsexamen) for teaching at Gymnasium level (History, Latin, Education Studies)
04/2018–09/2018
Student/Research Assistant as proofreader (academic articles, habilitation thesis) for Dr. Verena Schulz (LMU) under Prof. Dr. Martin Hose (LMU)
07/2015–06/2016
Student Research Assistant as proofreader (digital edition of the Schedelsche Weltchronik, transcription, collation) for Dr. Bernd Posselt (LMU, MGH) under Prof. Dr. Claudia Wiener (LMU) at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in Munich
01/2014
Award from the LMU Chair of Jewish History and Culture for the best proseminar paper of the summer semester 2013 (paper on the beginnings of the Central-Verein)
10/2011–09/2018
Modularized degree program for teaching at Gymnasium level in the subjects History, Latin and Education Studies at LMU Munich

Publications

Edited volumes

  • Conciliator litium medicinalium per Petrum Padubanensem constructus. Digitale kritische Edition der Differentiae 1 to 10, ed. and transl. by Sebastian Gassmann/Oliver Maximilian Schrader in collaboration with Christian Kaiser/Tessa Gengnagel, Bonn/Cologne. [in final preparation]

Essays and articles

  • With Oliver Schrader/Tessa Gengnagel: Automatisierung und CI/CD in digitalen Editionen am Beispiel des Conciliator, in: Book of Abstracts der 10. Jahrestagung des Verbandes der Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd 2024), ed. by Joëlle Weis/Estelle Bunout/Thomas Haider et al., Passau 2024, 116–121. [https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.10698405, conference abstract]
  • Beobachtungen zum Umgang mit Autoritäten im Conciliator des Petrus von Abano, in: Heilkulturen des Mittelalters im Dialog. Traditionen – Wissenstransfer – Netzwerke, ed. by Christian Kaiser/Melinda Michel, Basel 2026. [accepted for publication]

Working Groups

  • Research Area E: Medieval and Early Modern Courts as Hubs of Textual Migration
  • Research Area C: Methods and Practices of Editing
  • Digital Humanities (as required)
  • Science Communication (as required)