Tobias Reinhardt

Tobias Reinhardt (born 31 August 1971) is a German classical scholar, specialising in Latin literature and ancient philosophy. Since 2008, he has been the Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.^[1][2][3]

Reinhardt was born on 31 August 1971 in Gross-Gerau, West Germany.^[4] He was educated at Kronberg-Gymnasium Aschaffenburg.^[4] He then studied Latin and Ancient Greek at the University of Frankfurt, where he completed the Staatsexamen.^[3][4][5] In 1997, he matriculated into Corpus Christi College, Oxford to undertake postgraduate studies in classical philology.^[3] His doctoral supervisors were Michael Frede and Michael Winterbottom.^[3] He completed his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 2000 with a thesis titled "A commentary on Cicero's 'Topica'".^[4][6]

During Trinity Term of the 2000/2001 academic year, Reinhardt was a college lecturer in classical philosophy at New College, Oxford and in Latin literature at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.^[3] For the 2001/2002 academic year, he was a junior research fellow in ancient philosophy at Merton College, Oxford.^[4] In 2002, he was elected a Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, where he was also tutor in Latin and Ancient Greek.^[4] He was additionally a university lecturer in classical languages and literature in the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford between 2002 and 2008.^[3] In 2008, he was appointed Corpus Christi Professor of Latin, and as such was elected a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.^[4] In 2022, Reinhardt published an English-language commentary on Cicero's Academica, completing a project he began in 1999.^[7]

• Reinhardt, Tobias (2000). Das Buch E der aristotelischen Topik - Untersuchungen zur Echtheitsfrage (in German). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. ISBN 978-3525252284.
• Reinhardt, Tobias, ed. (2003). Cicero's Topica. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199263462.
• Reinhardt, Tobias; Lapidge, Michael; Adams, J. N., eds. (2005). Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780197263327.
• Reinhardt, Tobias; Winterbottom, Michael, eds. (2006). Quintilian Institutio Oratoria Book 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199262656.
• Reinhardt, Tobias. Cicero's Academici Libri and Lucullus: a commentary with introduction and translations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. ISBN 9780199277148