!!David Langslow - Biography
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I came to Manchester in January 1999. Before that, I was University Lecturer in Latin Philology and Linguistics in the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford (1984-1998). My doctoral thesis (Oxford, 1991) was on the origin and development of Latin medical terminology, and followed an MPhil (Oxford, 1984) in philology and linguistics with special reference to Greek and Anatolian, and a BA (Oxford, 1982) in Classics (Greek and Latin literature, languages, Greek and Roman history, comparative philology).
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Since 1999, I have played a leading role in establishing, developing and sustaining the new department of classics and ancient history at Manchester, which in terms of student numbers is now one of the largest and most vibrant in the country. I have developed and taught BA and MA courses in the classical languages, Greek and Roman literature, history of medicine, and comparative historical linguistics. I have pursued research especially in the areas of ancient medical texts and language, and descriptive and social linguistics, including periods of intense activity in Germany and the US. I am one of the directors of the JACT Greek summer school (est. 1967), and founding project team leader of Manchester Classics for All (est. 2015), which is already bringing classics to
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__Present position__
*since 1999 Professor of Classics, University of Manchester
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__Education__
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*1984-91 Wolfson College, Oxford: D.Phil. in the Faculty of Classics (thesis: ''The Formation and Development of Latin Medical Vocabulary: A. Cornelius Celsus and Cassius Felix'', 2 vols, pp. xi, 813, + microfiche indexes), supervised by Prof. Anna Morpurgo Davies, examined by Prof. Robert Coleman (Cambridge) and Prof. Dr. Jürgen Untermann (Cologne)
*1982-4 University College, Oxford: M.Phil. in comparative philology and general linguistics, Examiners’ congratulations (papers in: Greek and Hittite languages and texts, and general linguistics; thesis on the formation of compound words in Homer and Demosthenes)
*1978-82 University College, Oxford: B.A. in classics; 1%%sup st/%-class Honours in both parts (with, in Finals, Examiners’ congratulations, and the university prize for comparative philology)
*1970-77 Whitgift School, South Croydon (south London); (A-Level in Latin, Greek, Ancient History, Russian, S-Paper in Latin and Greek)
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__Academic posts__
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*since 1999 Professor of Classics, University of Manchester
*Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford
*1984-98 University Lecturer in Latin Philology & Linguistics (a ‘New Blood’ post), and Ordinary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford
*1983/4 Salvesen Junior Research Fellow, University College, Oxford (a 3-year appointment)
*1983 College Lecturer in Classics, University College, Oxford
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__Awards, and study abroad__
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*2006 elected to membership of the Academia Europaea
*2006 Member of the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (Fall Term)
*2002-3 Visiting Professor for 3 semesters at the University of Mainz, with the financial support of the AHRB and the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation (Germany). Subject: the text and transmission of the Latin version of Alexander of Tralles. Host: Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dietrich Fischer
*1998 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (Resumption for four months) at the University of Mainz. Subject: towards a first edition of the Latin version of Alexander of Tralles. Host: Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dietrich Fischer
*1997/8 Special Lecturership in Oxford University (awarded for one year by the General Board on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Classics)
*1992-8 Fondation Hardt, Vandoeuvres, Geneva (four research visits funded by the British Academy and the Fonds national suisse de la recherche scientifique)
*1986/7 Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation Research Fellowship for one year at the University of Cologne. Subject: technical language in the ancient world, with special reference to medicine. Host: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Untermann
*1983 Travelling Scholarship of the British School of Archaeology at Ankara (four weeks in Turkey, studying Hittite sites)
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__Research interests and areas of research supervision:__
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*Latin and Greek language, historical and literary aspects, including :
**language and literary style
**language and imagery
**literature and linguistic register
**literature and dialect
*The language, literature and social history of technical subjects in the ancient world, especially medicine and law
*Latin and Greek linguistics, especially descriptive, historical and social linguistics including:
**the history of Latin and Greek
**archaic, classical, imperial and late Latin
**the pre-Roman languages of Italy
**Mycenaean Greek, Homeric Greek and the Greek dialects
*Indo-European comparative and historical linguistics 
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