Living Latin Online

Daniel Gallagher

After a decade of service to Benedict XVI and Francis as a papal Latinist, Daniel Gallagher was named the Ralph and Jeanne Kanders Professor of the Practice in Latin at Cornell University in 2017. He holds degrees from the University of Michigan, the Catholic University of America, and the Pontifical Gregorian University and has published extensively in medieval philosophy, especially in the areas of metaphysics and aesthetics. He is dedicated to handing on the Latin language based on the principles and methodology of his long-time mentor, Reginald Foster.

Elżbieta Górka

Elżbieta Górka is a Ph.D. student in Literary studies and MA student in psychology at University of Wrocław in Poland. She holds a MA in Classics from the same University. Elżbieta is particularly interested in Neo-Latin literature and is writing her doctoral dissertation on the pastoral poetry of Neo-Latin poet Giovanni Baptista Mantovano. Her other academic interests include Augustan poetry, the image of woman in Latin literature, cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics. In her free time Elżbieta reads English literature from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, draws and sings in choirs, collects herbs and hikes in the mountains.

Tyler Patterson

Marco Romani Mistretta

A native of Rome, Marco Romani Mistretta studied Classics at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and received a PhD in Classical Philology from Harvard University before joining the Paideia Institute. He currently directs the Institute's European branch and oversees all financial reporting, including income statements, balance sheets, and annual budgets. He also manages the Paideia Press. Besides being the author of several research publications, he has taught a number of courses on ancient languages, Greek and Roman literatures, and science in antiquity. He peer-reviews articles for Sage Business Cases.

Justin Schwamm

Jenny Teichmann

Jenny studied German and Slavic philology in Greifswald, European Cultural History in Frankfurt/Oder, and, finally, Classics at Humboldt University Berlin. She is currently finishing her Master’s thesis – a German translation of the Epicurean philosopher Diogenes of Oinoanda – and plans to pursue a PhD afterwards. She has partaken in major translation projects as the Vulgata Deutsch and a new translation of the Greek Anthology into German. She holds close contact with the Polis Institute, Jerusalem, and is co-founder of the Σύλλογος Ἑλληνικός, a weekly meeting point for Greek enthusiasts in the Berlin area.